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"If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be."
"I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living."
"The shadows are as important as the light."
"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid."
"Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble."
"The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune."
"The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions."
"I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it's one of the most important institutions we have."
"It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues."
"The greatest missile in the world is useless ... unless it's targeted. A torpedo is adrift unless it has someplace to go. An arrow is pointless unless it hits something. So it's important for kids--for everyone, even if you fail at first--to target something and head in that direction. With all your might."
"The most important thing in art is taste."
"Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!"
"Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression."
"I think you have to [vote] and the reason you have to go vote is an important one, and that is because the day you vote is the day that you will feel the most ineffectual you will feel all year."
"The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975."
"It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones."
"I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there."
"Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something."
"Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life."
"Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation"
