"If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important."
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"How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new-- Important matter yet attractive too? [Ger., Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu Und mit Bedeutung auch gefallig sei?]"
"Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page."
"The important thing isn't that your technically great, I think it's the power of your expression."
"This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself."
"These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know."
"To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures."
"The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same."
"Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?"
"It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish."
"Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing."
"Listening is an important key to HEARING."
"What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some."
"One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat."
"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
"For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich."
"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
"It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally."
"If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation of the press is the most difficult, dangerous and important problem they have to resolve. Mankind cannot now be governed without it, nor at present with it."
"Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control."