Important Quotes

"Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids"

David Broder, Journalist

"It's nice to be important, but it's important to always be nice"

Alyssa Milano, Actress

"We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important"

Bruce Babbitt, Politician

"I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth"

Bob Edwards, Journalist

"Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me"

Ashley Judd, Actress

"We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so"

Adam Garcia, Actor

"It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year"

Anna Chlumsky, Actress

"It's not quite as important who you beat as that you end up on top"

Bode Miller, Athlete

"Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world"

Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor

"All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses"

Ann Druyan, Writer

"My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it"

Adam Duritz, Musician

"This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say"

Brenda Ueland, Writer

"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is"

Annabella Sciorra, Actress

"I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region"

Arsene Wenger, Coach

"If everything is very important, then nothing is important"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play"

Barry Sanders, Athlete

"The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry"

Bill Frist, Politician

"People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me"

Adam Garcia, Actor

"I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me"

Alonzo Mourning, Athlete

"I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie"

Allison Janney, Actress

"This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job"

Bill Delahunt, Politician

"We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety"

Alain de Botton, Writer

"The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things"

Arthur Scargill, Politician

"And so with all things: names were vital and important"

Algernon H. Blackwood

"At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence"

Arsene Wenger, Coach

"Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months"

Ashley Judd, Actress

"The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day"

Arthur Scargill, Politician

"In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort"

Archie Shepp, Musician

"A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation"

Ann Druyan, Writer

"It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years"

Albert Wynn, Politician

"I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important"

Jim Valvano, Coach

"It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

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