"I know that big, important things don't just come together overnight, but I've been me for a long time now and it's still not working."
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"Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us."
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"Is it more important that you, as a white male, read my work and learn from it, or what you call me? I think it's more important that you read my work, reflect on it, and allow it to transform your life and your thinking in some way."
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"You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying."
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"The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly."
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"What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world."
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"I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance."
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"Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence."
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"How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain."
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"I spend too much money on my sets and my gowns. I think the presentation is important. I don't think people want to see the old show all the time."
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"That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die."
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"I kind of feel like I've been eating professionally for a long time. I've tasted everything. If there's a sausage, you know what? I know exactly what it tastes like. I love them all. But right now it's more important for me to not have all that grease and fat in my body."
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"Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer."
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"There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb."
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"I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success."
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"Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste."
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"This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise."
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"The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this question have dealt with it on mistaken lines. They have regarded grammatical form as a surer guide in analysis than, in fact, it is. And they have not known what differences in grammatical form are important."
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"I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off."
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"Software is more important than hardware."
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