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"For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life."
"The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently."
"Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?"
"When you feel WHOLE, things come to enhance your WHOLEness. When you feel broken, things come to enhance your brokenness. That's why you CANNOT FILL A VOID. That's why the premise from which you attract your relationship is so important."
"Daniel Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know. The organized Mind is smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written."
"There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe."
"I don't worry about things that aren't important."
"What you'll tend to avoid doing is probably the most important thing you need to do because it'll probably be the most daunting and the most potentially successful thing you could be doing and that's usually out of people's comfort zone."
"There is a small, but important, difference between peeing in the pool, and peeing into the pool."
"It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse."
"Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results."
"Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked."
"Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right."
"It's important for us to tell our stories."
"What's important is how you deal with fear. I face it head-on, but I'm not too proud to admit that I do get afraid sometimes."
"Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker."
"The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes."
"It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures."
"I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America."
"I feel like in order to challenge yourself you have to get out of and do things that feel wrong at first and find new things. It's important to look for those things."
