"It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us."
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"Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to able, by its total command of a worldview, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard-or try to turn back-the measureable advances that we have made."
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"We know that our life is essentially tragic. I'm absolutely not for handing over that very important department of our psyche to those who say, "Why didn't you say so before? God has a plan for you in mind.""
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"For me, food is all about balance. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and an appropriate amount of poultry, fish, and red meat that are sourced from good places, you're doing well. It's important to make sure that the meat you're consuming is hormone-free."
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"When John was with me, it was total commitment. Whatever he did outside our relationship didn't seem very important. We were together such a lot of the time that whatever other affairs he had once we met couldn't have amounted to much because I was with him most of the time. He kept me in Liverpool as late as I dared stay."
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"Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike."
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"While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness."
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"The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important."
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"I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition."
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"The only important statistic is the final score."
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"The most important step of all is the first step. Start something."
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"The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life."
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"The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?"
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"I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them."
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"It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true."
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"I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural."
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"I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital."
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"Being famous is not the same as being important. A lot of important people aren't famous, and a lot of famous people aren't important."
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"The most important job in life is being a mom."
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"I really don't like watching myself and for the most part I will never watch myself. I worked with Kevin Smith on Yoga Hosers and I really respected the way that he directed. He told me, "It's very important to watch yourself." So he would direct by going, "Hey come over to the screen and watch this scene." And so it was very uncomfortable for me to have to watch myself but then he talked me through the process of that and it was very helpful."
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