"Be yourself. It's the most important part of anything that you do. It's not fashion. It can be whatever you want to do."
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"It's more important to be righteous than to be right."
"Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios."
"It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on those places where there is violent conflict...It gives us a slightly or very distorted view of what is going on because there are many other parts of the planet where there is no violent conflict, but that is not on the news."
"In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge"
"The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect."
"Friendship is anything that you get something out of that is very, very important to you. And that's why there are those people who are so close to you that you don't know how you'd live without them. And they are the ones that, even if they do something terrible, you have to keep. Otherwise, you're just going to be lost without them."
"To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)"
"Never sacrifice your family. They are the most important thing in life."
"At the end of the day, it's important to know what really matters most in life...your sanity, your health, your family, and the ability to start anew."
"The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else."
"In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters, you don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something important. I love that. I'm really a sucker for that kind of song."
"The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity."
"The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid."
"Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself."
"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing."
"Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence."
"The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much."
"It is important to make a dream of life and a dream reality."
"Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success."