"I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make."
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"I couldn't tell you why but now I know a story is in fact where you discover who you are, where a culture discovers what it is and I just think that this is a terribly important place to get into and that I would enjoy it."
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"I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives."
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"I think the language that we use in dealing with one another is very important. And even if I am called upon to bring out some money to support a regime, and I am entitled to say I do not like what that regime does and obviously I am not going to put money there - you cannot really say this is wrong or this is unreasonable."
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"I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel."
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"I think everybody has had the experience at some point when they feel that there's more to life than just matter. But I think it's very important to keep that under control and not to hand it over to be exploited by priests and shamans and rabbis and other riffraff."
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"This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem."
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"I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from."
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"Honestly, the two main things that I always look for is, when I read the script for the first time, do I read it quickly? Because if I read it quick, that's an important telltale sign."
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"The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people."
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"Now that I'm a dad, I'm practicing what I call 'one- handed cooking,' because I've got something more important in my other arm. I'm whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets."
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"I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things."
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"Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth."
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"they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things"
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"Family time is really important to me."
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"[There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them."
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"So far I have been speaking of theoretical science, which is an attempt to understand the world. Practical science, which is an attempt to change the world, has been important from the first, and has continually increased in importance, until it has almost ousted theoretical science from men's thoughts."
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"I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions."
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"It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves."
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"Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both."
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