"What is heard and how it is heard is more important than what you say."
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"The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us."
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"Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols."
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"The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education."
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"Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession."
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"I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery."
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"Make sure you are doing what is important to God-not just what is important to everyone else you know."
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"Were all important in god's eyes."
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"The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important."
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"It is always brave to insist on undergoing transformations that feel necessary and right even when there are so many obstructions to doing so, including people and institutions who seek to pathologize or criminalize such important acts of self-definition. I know that for some feels less brave than necessary, but we all have to defend those necessities that allow us to live and breathe in the way that feels right to us. Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs – it is also not always what a trans person needs."
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"When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery."
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"The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy."
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"Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!"
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"Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'"
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"I know what's within me even if you can't see it yet...I have something more important than courage, I have patience. I will become what I know I am."
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"The most important medicine is tender love and care."
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"In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we may abstract too much and end up with fictitious objects in our models turning into real monsters that devour us."
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"Which one is the most important between trust, hope and love? Loyalty."
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"I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl."
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"TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination."
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