"You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power"
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"Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain"
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"I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important."
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"Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself."
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"However, the treaty exists and it puts us in a different position toward the Soviet Union than the one we have toward other countries. Yes, the treaty exists. Nor does it exist on only one side. Look how w3e're situated geographically and you'll see that India is very important for the Soviet Union."
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"The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach."
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"My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important."
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"Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life."
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"He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays."
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"[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you."
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"It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is."
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"The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation."
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"If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries."
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"It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do."
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"The most important thing that we can do for the healing of our world is to hear inside ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying."
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"Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media."
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"Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying."
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"I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important."
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"You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough."
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"She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance--broad forehead, button nose, freckled cheeks, and pointy ears. A slammed-together, rough sort of face you can't ignore. Still, the whole package isn't so bad. For all I know maybe she's not so wild about her own looks, but she seems comfortable with who she is, and that's the important thing."
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