"I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well."
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"Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you."
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"Taking a job for the cash is not as important as taking a job for the joy."
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"What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book."
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"Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women."
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"War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production."
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"Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere."
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"What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important"
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"In a sense, the artwork is the most important thing in getting somebody to buy a book. The person probably won't buy a book if he doesn't like the artwork. Once you buy it for the artwork, you hope that the story will also be good."
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"It's the fact that fans still care. I like all the comics conventions: The smaller ones are easier, the bigger ones are exciting.... Each one I say: Never again. But they're all great.... These things are important because they keep the fans' interest alive in comics. They keep the fans reading and their imaginations stimulated."
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"I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it is important to people. Without it, lives can be dull."
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"Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer."
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"When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security."
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"Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later."
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"Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as it now seems; he would be an important figure in the history of gay writing and in the history of transatlantic literary relations even were his poetry not so good as it is. With his life as it was and his works as they are, he's an obvious candidate for a volume of retrospective and critical essays, and this one is first-rate."
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"Do what is important, not what is urgent."
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"What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you"
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"The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself. The most important assets to develop, preserve and enhance, therefore, are your own capabilities. And no one can do it for you. You must cultivate the habit of leadership effectiveness for yourself - and doing so will be the single best investment you will ever make."
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"Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make."
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"To listen with empathy is the most important human skill."
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