"Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way."
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"Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important."
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"No one's more important than people."
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"I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important."
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"Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?"
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"Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is."
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"We're excited to be appearing in Tel Aviv in the framework of the Pic.nic festival. This is an important tour for us and we're glad that Israel is part of it"
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"The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet"
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"I think where you play is important."
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"Sometimes there are ways to minimize the importance of gender in life, or to confuse gender categories so that they no longer have descriptive power. But other times gender can be very important to us, and some people really love the gender that they have claimed for themselves."
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"I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk."
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"It's important that if one opposes discriminatory speech, one opposes all kinds. That is that one decides on a principle that it will include all minorities. But if the protection of one minority against another minority is what is happening, then I worry about that."
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"I don't really have many hobbies but one of my favorite things to do is spend time with my family. We have fun together, and building those relationships is very important to me."
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"Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty."
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"It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object."
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"All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander."
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"I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies."
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"There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness."
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"The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial."
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"I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time."
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