Important Quotes

"If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas"

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Athlete

"I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt"

Tim Johnson, Politician

"Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of"

Sylvia Kristel, Actress

"It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right"

John Avlon, Writer

"I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together"

Robbie Keane, Athlete

"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere"

Jean Rhys, Novelist

"I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats"

Lydia Lunch, Musician

"If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important"

Linda Blair, Actress

"It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray"

Roger von Oech

"The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one"

Carlos Ghosn, Businessman

"No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us"

Bon Scott, Musician

"It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents"

Nursultan Nazarbayev, Politician

"Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued"

Frank Pittman

"I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception"

Mike Thompson, Politician

"I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong"

James Lipton, Educator

"As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan"

James Inhofe, Politician

"Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend"

William Whipple, Politician

"As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse"

Jim Lehrer, Journalist

"It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people"

Terry Riley, Composer

"Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture"

Sue Wicks, Athlete

"The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content"

Stephen Wolfram, Scientist

"I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies"

Stephen Dorff, Actor

"As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants"

Jose Serrano, Politician

"I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in"

Bob Matsui, Politician

"Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs"

John Thune, Politician

"Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores"

Bill Alexander, Politician

"It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner"

Beryl Bainbridge, Novelist

"Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn"

Tim Cahill, Athlete

"For me, being memorable is more important than winning"

Ricki Lake, Entertainer

"Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician"

Reba McEntire, Musician

"Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing"

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Musician

"It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful"

Wyclef Jean, Musician

"How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is"

Wilhelm von Humboldt, Educator

"Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made"

Pepper Schwartz

"The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish"

Terry Southern, Writer

"Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them"

Michael Steele, Politician

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