Important Quotes

"Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone"

Georg Solti, Musician

"My family is more important than my party"

Zell Miller, Politician

"Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being"

David Packard, Businessman

"You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it"

Ajay Naidu, Actor

"In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues"

Alexis Korner, Musician

"Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that"

Nick Cave, Musician

"The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make"

Paul Berg, Scientist

"Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected"

Christina Milian, Musician

"It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club"

Robert Laurent, Sculptor

"I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on"

Fred Savage, Actor

"It's extremely important to have a loyal fan base and be receptive to them"

Mike McCready, Musician

"There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist"

Mia Farrow, Actress

"The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important"

Julien Green, Novelist

"It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors"

Vic Snyder, Politician

"I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones"

Peter Sarsgaard, Actor

"The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order"

Jim Jeffords, Politician

"I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active"

Beverley Mitchell, Actress

"It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so"

Helmut Kohl, Politician

"There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader"

Rudy Giuliani, Politician

"Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable"

Peter Farrelly, Director

"The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go"

Helen Prejean

"There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important"

Franklin P. Adams, Journalist

"People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me"

Marvin Hagler, Athlete

"That's when it hit me. The site is more important than me"

Harry Knowles, Critic

"My children are the most important thing in my life"

Columba Bush, Celebrity

"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable"

Trey Parker, Artist

"If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life"

Chris Evert, Athlete

"I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay "happened". I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened"

Mike Peters, Cartoonist

"The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years"

Shigeru Yoshida, Politician

"Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time"

Ralph Allen, Politician

"I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate"

Russ Feingold, Politician

"The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation"

William B. Riley

"I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity"

Sally Kirkland, Actress

"Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them"

Tracey Ullman, Comedian

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