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"If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony."
"I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life."
"Hustle is the most important word--EVER."
"You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself."
"At the end of the day, we each have a different definition for beauty, but being yourself is the most important."
"There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform"
"Money is a most important thing in the world."
"Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss."
"I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life."
"To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore (another important qualification), it should not be seen as an audience, but as a community of common concern in which one hopes to participate constructively."
"The values of life are most important."
"I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen."
"The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded."
"I love design, so it's important for me to have a creative outlet."
"I think that the revolution in music is over, and what's left is a mop-up action. It's a matter of the news getting out to everybody else. I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It's mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that. Everything is traditionally slow - much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow."
"Originality is really important."
"What you become is far more important that what you get. What you get will be influenced by what you become."
"The dollars aren't so important... once you have them."
"The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in an emotionless way. If you attempt it, the result is artificial. I don't like that kind of writing. I think that if a poem is really great, you should think of it as having written itself despite the author. It should flow."
"Precision marching is less important for the bridal party than maintaining the proper facial expresssions: The bridegroom must look awed; the bridesmaids, happy and excited; the father of the bride, proud; and the bride, demure. If the bridegroom feels doubtful, the bridesmaids, sulky, the father, worried, and the bride, blasé, nobody wants to know."
