"In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence."
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"What you stand for is more important than what you stand in."
"I think grooming is definitely undervalued by men. We all expect women to be fully groomed, which they do. But I also think it's just as important for a man to look fresh and clean."
"When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now."
"It hurts because it mattered."
"They’re all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody’s going."
"When it comes to our everyday habits, it's important to ask: 'Am I putting God first?'"
"As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so."
"National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution."
"Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end."
"There is no time to leave important words unsaid."
"Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!"
"People sometimes talk about me as being a brand, having a strategy and whatever else. I wish. Seriously. I wish I had it together enough to have a strategy. But it's so instinctual. It usually comes down to two things: the person I'm working with - the director is really important to me - and a line in a script."
"Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people."
"Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time."
"Every day, you always have to be cognizant of your brand. I know it can cost you [future] money, but there are a lot of things more important than money that affect your brand."
"So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20)."
"It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love."
"Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way."
"Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work... is my brain - particularly the right brain... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical."