Important Quotes

"Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing"

Thomas Carper, Economist

"I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make"

Chely Wright, Musician

"It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States"

Brad Sherman, Politician

"A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it"

Jason Bateman, Actor

"In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance"

S. I. Hayakawa, Politician

"Long Toss! Far and away themost important drill for strengthening my arm"

Paul Quantrill, Athlete

"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter"

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer

"I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside"

Michael O'Donoghue, Writer

"The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country"

Zinedine Zidane, Athlete

"Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating"

Laurel Lee

"It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible"

Kelly Lynch, Actress

"When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law"

John Mica, Politician

"I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important"

John F. Kerry, Politician

"It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is"

Joel McHale, Comedian

"I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players"

Jennifer Capriati, Athlete

"The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Brussels, in a few days, will have a major impact on that"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"Consistency is very important when you're making films"

Ian McDiarmid, Actor

"Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon"

Virginia Foxx, Politician

"Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken"

William Moulton Marston, Psychologist

"The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures"

Humphry Davy, Scientist

"To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America"

Peter Munk, Businessman

"A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!"

Tim Pawlenty, Politician

"It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all"

Glenn Close, Actress

"Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor"

Paul Sarbanes, Politician

"We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself"

Paul Dudley White, Scientist

"There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us"

Oliver Kahn, Athlete

"You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff"

Gary Webb, Journalist

"What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance"

Michael Connelly, Author

"The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

"Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed"

David K. Shipler

"I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do"

Martina McBride, Musician

"The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know"

Milos Forman, Director

"It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me"

Kate Beckinsale, Actress

"I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico"

Vicente Fox, Statesman

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