"Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself."
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"It's important for me to live my life honestly."
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"One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance."
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"In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example."
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"I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians."
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"One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad."
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"[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting."
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"I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them."
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"The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need."
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"It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know."
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"I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose."
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"Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important."
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"Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And that's what gives it ultimately urgency too, because unless you do it now, this important thing gets again and again postponed."
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"Even though Im pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. Theyre putting important issues on the agenda."
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"Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been."
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"Attraction happens when you feel important, valued, appreciated and wanted."
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"An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it."
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"That was very much ahead of its time back in the 1880s and, not surprisingly, it was met with some resistance. [I]f you fast forward to today and the fact that we're the single largest source of employment for women (broadly speaking, as the reps are independent contractors), we've been an important creator of entrepreneurship for women."
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"Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly."
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"I'm incredibly fortunate and it's important to me to make sure that I give back where I can."
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