"I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was."
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"So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality."
"The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I did. I asked for help."
"Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource."
"Passion is more important than justice."
"Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom."
"I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues."
"The MacGuffin is that thing which is most important to us - that most essential thing. The audience will supply it, each member for himself."
"When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see."
"I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it."
"We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life."
"Food is the most important influence on your health. It is even more important than your thoughts and emotions."
"Small businesses are important, but so are tiny businesses."
"I just know keeping track of what I'm doing and where I'm going is important to me."
"It's always helpful to remember that in the grand scheme of things you are much more important than... um, wait, than... something, maybe."
"Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards."
"If you change your relationship with time, you will change your life. The most important time of your life is right now."
"Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you."
"It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important."
"Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad." You do remember your father?" No. I remember yours."