Important Quotes

"I'd like to see an arrested growth of development. You can't stop it, but it's important we do something about the developers having the upper hand"

John Murray

"You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it"

Eric Carr, Musician

"Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together"

Jimmy Wales, Businessman

"Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come"

Dennis Bergkamp, Athlete

"While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction"

James Branch Cabell, Novelist

"Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving"

Carla Bley, Musician

"To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson"

Bruce Catton, Historian

"It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions"

Charles Edward Merriam, Educator

"I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time"

Brittany Daniel, Actress

"The most important thing is to stay positive"

Saku Koivu, Athlete

"The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign"

Pat Sajak, Entertainer

"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing"

Karel Reisz, Director

"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted"

Dennis Quaid, Actor

"So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining"

Chad Lowe, Actor

"I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV"

Chad Lowe, Actor

"But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service"

John Galliano, Designer

"An important part of what the state does is preserving its history"

James R. Thompson, Politician

"But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects"

Vincente Minnelli, Director

"I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior," he said. "You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends"

Chuck Colson, Lawyer

"Perspective is the most important thing to have in life"

Lauren Graham, Actress

"It's drama, it's a lot of things, but you know it's always about every movie or every TV project ever made is meant to be watched. If people like it and support it, that's what it is all about, really it's sort of the important part about it"

Will Estes, Actor

"Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work"

Thomas S. Monson, Clergyman

"Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb"

Sandra Oh, Actress

"The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies"

Stephen Cambone, Politician

"Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this"

Shania Twain, Musician

"As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased"

Ralph A. Cram

"Food simply isn't important to me"

Alice Paul, Activist

"A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more"

Richard G. Scott, Clergyman

"The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about"

Mohamed Al-Fayed, Businessman

"At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge"

Mike Quade, Coach

"I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job"

Matt Damon, Actor

"Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health"

Lois Capps, Politician

"When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play"

Mac Thornberry, Politician

"In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context"

John N. Mitchell, Politician

"Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one"

David McFadden, Poet

"I think it's important to know your limitations too"

Kip Winger, Musician

"I think that the opportunity to be a kid another year and not have to not worry about the responsibilities of paying bills, and worry about getting an agent and worry about getting an accountant was important"

Jason Williams, Athlete

"I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life"

Phil Mickelson, Athlete

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