Important Quotes

"When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that"

Duffy Daugherty, Coach

"I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses"

Rose Byrne, Actress

"I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important"

Tony Goldwyn, Actor

"All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet"

Stevie Smith, Poet

"The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel"

Lou Ferrigno, Actor

"Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners"

Dennis Ross

"It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair"

Zalmay Khalilzad, Diplomat

"I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that"

Keith Haring, Artist

"One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you"

Bruce Jay Friedman, Novelist

"I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure"

T. Boone Pickens, Businessman

"People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive"

Phil Keoghan, Celebrity

"I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now"

Frank Dobson, Politician

"Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else"

Doris Roberts, Actress

"Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"Well, I've got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them"

Treat Williams, Actor

"Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services"

Henry Norris Russell, Scientist

"I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can"

David Coverdale, Musician

"That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone"

Bruce Davison, Actor

"To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision"

Robyn Davidson, Writer

"The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security"

Rob Simmons, Politician

"Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important"

Mariel Hemingway, Actress

"Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan"

Lloyd Cutler, Lawyer

"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it"

Robert Motherwell, Artist

"For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both"

Katey Sagal, Athlete

"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes"

Konstantin Stanislavisky, Actor

"Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about"

Joaquin Phoenix, Actor

"The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture"

Gaylord Nelson, Politician

"The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment"

Lord Patrick Devlin, Lawyer

"If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part"

John Eaton, Politician

"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool"

Jane Wagner, Comedian

"Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible"

Deion Sanders, Athlete

"I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding"

Brian Littrell, Musician

"What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"The most important thing to do is really listen"

Itzhak Perlman, Musician

"As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important"

Benjamin Bratt, Actor

"We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity"

Ernie Fletcher, Politician

"I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters"

Margaret Weis, Writer

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