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• The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Important, Ability, Feels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

  Eric Ambler

  Important, Bullets, Shots

  A Coffin for Dimitrios (1939).

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• The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'

  Tori Amos

  Music, Important, Sometimes

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• The most important things that any member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever does in this world are: 1. To marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority; and 2. To keep the covenant made in connection with the holy and perfect order of matrimony-thus assuring the obedient persons of an inheritance of exaltation in the celestial kingdom.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Jesus, Order, Perfect

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• There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and
  gotten very rich.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Numbers, Important

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• It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Money, Media, Information Flow

  "Intrinsic Motivation Models Lead To Business Success" by Marty Zwilling, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital after battle... The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules. The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Heart, Faithful

  Interview with Antonio Spadaro, w2.vatican.va. September 21, 2013.

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• I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.

  Tom Ford

  Motivational, Beautiful, Struggle

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• I think the most important thing is [to] restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism in state government. Bring to the job a desire to really make things happen and help people and give confidence back to the public.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

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• The only thing I can be sure of at any given time is what I am thinking myself. I have no idea what the others are thinking. Do they think space is big and dangerous? I do. What do they believe in? I think nobody ought to be alone. That one should be with someone. With friends. With the person one loves. I think it is important to love. I think it's the most important thing.

  Erlend Loe

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.82, Canongate Books

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• The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune.

  Woody Guthrie

  Worry, Important, Tunes

  "Readers recommend: songs that sample, recycle and reinvent" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward.

  Janet Evanovich

  Crazy, Moving, Writing

  Janet Evanovich, Ina Yalof (2006). “How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author”, p.190, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great depression, with 40 million Americans dealing with student loans, with millions of people working full-time at minimum wage and still living in poverty, with the big banks getting bigger and the workers getting poorer, and seniors struggling to make ends meet, Republicans in Washington have decided the most important thing for them to focus on is how to deny women access to birth control.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Senior, Struggle, People

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• The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

  Warren Buffett

  Play, Important, Investing

  Talk with students in Gaston Hall, Georgetown University, November 2002.

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• Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum.

  Larry Page

  Zero, Progress, Important

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  There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.

  Lionel Messi

  Winning, Games, Things In Life

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• The most important thing is to not waste your money.

  Gareth Bale

  Important, Waste, Busters

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• I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.

  Wayne Rooney

  Winning, Games, Important

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• And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

  Anna Friel

  Character, Important, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Mistake, People, Important

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.651, Spectra

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• Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.

  Angelina Jolie

  Women, Thinking, Self

  "Angelina Holds Nothing Back". Interview with Jennifer Kasle Furmaniak, www.cosmopolitan.com. August 16, 2003.

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• The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.

  Nhat Hanh

  Empathy, Listening, Suffering

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• We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we don't want it to come up to our living room. the most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us, then we will suffer less, but everyone is suffering, and no one wants to listen. We don't know how to express ourselves so that people can understand. because we suffer so much, the way we express our pain hurts other people, and they don't want to listen.

  Nhat Hanh

  Hurt, Pain, Order

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• Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.

  William P. Merrill

  Life, Men, Giving

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• Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the thought: the earth is alive.

  James Lovelock

  Mind, Important, Climate

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