"Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization."
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"If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... it's important to care about them, about who they are and what they do...I don't really care whose side they are on, and they can be monstrous on the outside or, worse, on the inside, but you still have to want to spend time with them."
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"Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink."
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"Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!""
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"The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered."
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"What is important is how well we love. God will make our love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not."
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"There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal."
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"The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation."
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"Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself."
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"Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food."
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"It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood."
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"As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread."
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"It's important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people's mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people's successes. It accelerates your own success."
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"To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life."
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"Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature"
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"We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important."
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"In 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important"
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"That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?"
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"God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important."
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"Even more important than the discovery of Columbus, which we are gathered together to celebrate, is the fact that the general government has just discovered women."
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