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"Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected."
"Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important."
"I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation."
"It really depends upon how much money you have in your account. Having a monthly paycheck come in for the rest of your life is extremely important. So it would probably be smart to put some of your money into an annuity, which is a way of buying a monthly pension check."
"The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry."
"From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way."
"I always say that I can help someone who can already compose, but if they can't, I can't help them. I can advise on technical issues, of course, like how low the piccolo can go, but otherwise what's important is not wisdom but enthusiasm."
"The ritual was very important to me: cleaning the pot, rolling the pot."
"What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people."
"At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening."
"One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate."
"I really think it's important that my beliefs don't impinge upon what you get from the movie. It's your opinion that matters and it's far more interesting than mine."
"When the government is looking for a criminal in the crowd, it construes people in terms of culpability: innocence or guilt. When a corporation uses emotion recognition software to gauge your reaction to a carton of milk, it construes your body as a consumer. So there are these different modes of seeing what it is to be human, which have important implications for social classification, stereotyping, and racial profiling."
"As a journalist, I never isolated myself. I was a journalist at a daily newspaper and every day I went out on the street. Every day I had contact with people. I interviewed the most important writers of the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first century, from Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, and Marguerite Yourcenar to Christa Wolf."
"The work is important and essential and I've had a therapist myself for decades and it's important work, but I knew that I wanted to work with people who are more functioning and that's when I decided to pursue my performance career full-time."
"Food is less important to me because I've learned to control my appetite to a great extent, simply by having my mind elsewhere. I find when I'm busy meditating on other aspects of my life I go without eating and I don't miss it."
"Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks."
"We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we throw it away, it’s gone."
"The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good."
"The question of how things will settle down is the only important question."
