"It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times."
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"For people who are readers, reading is important to them."
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"I am confident - very confident - that if I help solve this problem in a way that we won't have 20 million illegal immigrants 20 years from now, not only will I get re-elected, I can look back and say I was involved in something that was important."
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"Being fat just a fact. It feels important to me to speak the truth about that, and to not use a euphemism. Euphemisms are things we use when we want to dance around something or don't want to say it. I don't want to be something that is avoided. And I am my body."
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"We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade."
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"While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important."
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"The most important thing to understand about your pension is it only really counts on the day you put money in and the day you take money out."
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"Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater."
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"Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly."
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"I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us."
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"If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity."
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"I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair."
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"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other."
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"Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure."
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"I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life."
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"When it comes to the important things one is always alone."
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"I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so the occasion of itself alone has an importance, which forces me to stare down my nerves."
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"She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know - you can't know that, but she was really important."
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"Absolutely, although every congregation will say, you know, every worship leader will say it's vital. It's very important, but again these are, you know, these are different cultural styles."
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"Many companies routinely do things that are not important. They fail to prioritize. They get involved with details that don't matter."
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