Important Quotes

"My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church"

Lee Greenwood, Musician

"It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love"

Lyle Lovett, Musician

"Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care"

Kendrick Meek, Politician

"The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe"

John Blair, Politician

"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better"

Jeff Bezos, Businessman

"We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is"

Oscar de la Renta, Designer

"What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet"

James T. Walsh, Politician

"That may be a factor because we are the older show; we have been on the air for a while. Is it our day? Is it time to hang it up? But it seems that the show still continues, and we still enjoy being here. And that's a very important element"

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

"You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack"

William Hague

"There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books"

Jodi Rell, Politician

"I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important tough issues that will affect the future of this country"

Sean Hannity, Writer

"We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made"

David Gill, Scientist

"I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got"

Missy Elliot, Musician

"I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me"

Martin Gore, Musician

"I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove"

Mark Rylance, Actor

"It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous"

Robert Shea, Author

"As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet"

Sue Kelly, Politician

"To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost"

Chauncey Depew, Politician

"So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important"

Gunther Schuller, Composer

"My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other"

Rick Wakeman, Musician

"My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control"

Elliot Richardson, Lawyer

"In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home"

Sally Schneider, Writer

"But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?"

Lane Kirkland, Activist

"We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives"

Kenny Guinn, Politician

"The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past"

Michel Patini

"The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing"

Kay Bailey Hutchison, Politician

"I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure"

Jim Doyle, Politician

"A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you"

Siobhan Fahey, Musician

"I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside"

Shelley Long, Actress

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