"What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal."
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"You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further."
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"Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got back, he wasn't sure where he'd been. But most important of all, he did it on someone else's money."
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"We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important."
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"I never aspire to be objective because I don't believe in objectivity. It's important to be truthful, and it's important to make sure that the audience has a solid sense of what the expectation should be of a particular film."
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"Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities."
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"Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide."
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"The really important thing is not to reject anything."
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"In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one."
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"The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing."
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"A most useful approach to meditation practice is to consider it the most important activity of each day. Shedule it as you would an extremely important appointment, and unfailingly keep your appointment with the infinite."
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"I really try to avoid, you know, rolling out the history. The people are so important to me, and what happens to them, how they react, how things happen to them, this is what is important. I feel that if I can tell THAT story well, then people will go and Google the rest and fill in what they need to know."
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"Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older."
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"The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end."
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"Education is very important to my parents and to me."
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"I read the bible often, not just to prepare for "Noah". I believe it is a very important book."
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"You've got to keep reminding yourself of what's important."
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"The past gives great examples of what can happen in the future. It's always important to remember."
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"That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life."
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"I think it's very important. I've gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It's something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon."
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