"We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now."
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"In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with."
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"The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling."
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"We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered?"
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"It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design."
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"Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business."
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"We're getting to the point where it's important for each platform to have unique, differentiated titles -- so that if consumers want to buy that game, they have to buy that system"
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"I would never remake something that was like "The Godfather." Things that are truly important to me, I could never remake or reboot, or whatever."
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"When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you're a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It's all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It's just a movie."
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"Telling the truth is absolutely important."
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"I collect people's experiences. I feel that I build myself not only on my experience, but on other people's. That's important to me. I like to work with people who are better at what they do than I am. I like to work with people who are willing to share."
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"We're thinking about how we can use Facebook as an early indicator of dementia. Family and friends can see how, for example, the person is talking about a journey they didn't go on or having lunch with a friend they didn't have lunch with. Can we use those as early alerts that maybe the person should see a doctor? The most important thing is early diagnosis."
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"I think most people are more important than their opinions."
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"I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does."
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"There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's - but I used to study with Junior Mance, and he would tell me about Bradley's. It was a very important place for a generation of jazz musicians in New York. It was really all about pianists there."
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"Chico Hamilton told me, "The first take is important in jazz because that's where the real emotion is." That's your true response to what's happening, and everything else after that, your brain is involved because you have something to reference."
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"It is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus."
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"I got to play Santa, too. It's really important to play Santa, you know."
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"It seems to me that "Gender trouble" will always be important to try and open up our ideas of what gender is. So, I don't know if it's revolutionary, but maybe it still has something to say to those issues."
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"Love is a very important part of life, and you have to give in to it. But after a while it ceases to be such an important force in life, and that's the time when you should give in to age and stop doing it, if you don't have the impulse any more."
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