Important Quotes

"It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century"

"The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that"

Evelyn Underhill, Writer

"Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs"

Charles Foster Bass, Politician

"If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path"

Jeanne Moreau, Actress

"Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction"

Cate Blanchett, Actress

"Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience"

Bruce Babbitt, Politician

"I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important"

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Photographer

"I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent"

Jane Fonda, Actress

"The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all"

Bob Cousy, Athlete

"Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products"

David Milne, Artist

"What's important is self-appreciation"

Donnie Wahlberg, Actor

"Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America"

Jan Schakowsky, Politician

"The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views"

John Dingell, Politician

"We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us"

George Pataki, Politician

"The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all"

George Pataki, Politician

"Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail"

Ed Koch, Politician

"Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying"

Errol Morris, Director

"It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet"

James Payn, Novelist

"The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom"

Ed Miliband, Politician

"Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that's really important"

Colin Greenwood, Musician

"I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s"

Bob Barker, Actor

"You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe"

Charlie Crist

"The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier"

Harrison Salisbury, Journalist

"I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it"

Glenn Tipton, Musician

"It's important to put all I have into my career"

Cliff Richard, Musician

"It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it"

Cindy Crawford, Model

"I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life"

Guy Lafleur, Athlete

"I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else"

Emma Watson, Actress

"My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever"

Colin Mochrie, Actor

"I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business"

Diana Ross, Actress

"I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important"

Christina Applegate, Actress

"It's an important fact of life, war"

Jeff Goldblum, Actor

"I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems"

Bill Lipinski, Politician

"It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing"

Cate Blanchett, Actress

"Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes"

Dennis Muren, Artist

"The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness"

Charles Van Doren, Celebrity

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