"The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?"
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"Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?"
"The most important thing is family."
"It is very important not to think about losing."
"Everybody's got their problems. The important thing is not to complain about it."
"I'm an actor for hire. It's important not to forget that you're disposable....When you have that mentality, you fight for the jobs you want."
"If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way."
"A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to spend our lives doing the things we believe are most important to us."
"The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender."
"It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken."
"As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops."
"Makes a diff'rence, havin' a decent family,' he said. 'Me dad was decent. An' your mum an' dad were decent. If they'd lived, life woulda bin diff'rent, eh?' 'Yeah, I s'pose,' said Harry cautiously. Hagrid seemed to be in a very strange mood. 'Family,' said Hagrid gloomily. 'Whatever yeh say, blood's important."
"Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process."
"Living your best life is your most important journey in life."
"Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed."
"Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime."
"Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu."
"The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."
"The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent."
"Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music."