Important Quotes

"With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level"

Sue Kelly, Politician

"I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else"

Indra Nooyi, Businessman

"It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be"

Russell M. Nelson, Clergyman

"I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents"

Linda Hamilton, Actress

"Standards are a little crazy these days. I think that, when you go to sleep, as long as you're happy with the way you are and the way you look, that's the most important thing. I think it's an internal thing. As long as you feel good with who you are and comfortable with what you're wearing, but not if that's the most important thing"

Ashlee Simpson, Musician

"Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it"

Matthew Perry, Actor

"I have three sons, a husband, parents, and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important that I have found as I've matured, is that I have to move on"

Jami Gertz, Actress

"I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures"

Anatoly Chubais, Politician

"Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

"I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious"

LL Cool J, Musician

"If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration"

John Dingell, Politician

"It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me"

Harvey Fierstein, Actor

"But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War"

Jim Bunning, Politician

"When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word"

Karel Capek, Writer

"The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do"

Henry Moore, Sculptor

"As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000"

Julian Assange, Activist

"People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission"

Mark Kirk, Politician

"A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana"

John Breaux, Politician

"I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion. I'm pleased to be part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo"

Devon Aoki, Model

"All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing"

Al Yankovic, Comedian

"I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important"

Len Wein, Cartoonist

"But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care"

Kathleen Sebelius, Politician

"We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats"

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Politician

"So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful"

Goldie Hawn, Actress

"For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important"

Felicity Kendal, Actress

"It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do"

Geena Davis, Actress

"The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like - who are very talented"

Frank Oz, Actor

"It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive"

David Foster Wallace, Writer

"But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me"

Heidi Klum, Model

"I've been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest"

John Engler, Politician

"And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene"

John Breaux, Politician

"No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is"

John Boehner, Politician

"It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that"

Ed Miliband, Politician

"A great deal has been accomplished by the team, and I do think it important that it goes on and it is allowed to reach its full conclusion. In fact, I really believe it ought to be better resourced and totally focused on WMD; that that is important to do it"

David Kay, Scientist

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