Important Quotes - Page 12

• I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.

  Judy Woodruff

  Thinking, People, Voting

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• Senate races are different from House races, in the sense that they are more candidate-driven. The higher the office - that is, I mean, governor, senator, president - the more important the candidate.

  Judy Woodruff

  Mean, Race, Office

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• There'll be some savings from preventing double dipping by public servants which are currently able to access not one but two fully tax payer funded schemes and of course there will be out paid parental leave levy. So all up not only is this an important economic reform, an important reform to have to grow our economy more strongly, it also will leave the budget better off which will help us fix the mess that Labor has created with the budget.

  Tony Abbott

  Two, Get Better, Reform

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Government, People

  "Tony Abbott on the stem cell debate". "Insiders" with Barrie Cassidy, www.abc.net.au. August, 20, 2006.

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• I think that the important point is we've got to have a president who understands the benefits of free trade but also is going to enforce unfair trade agreements and is going to stand up to other countries.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Agreement

  "Breaking the Sound Barrier: Third-Party Candidates Ralph Nader & Cynthia McKinney Respond to Final McCain-Obama Debate". "Democracy Now!" with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 16, 2008.

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• I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Judging, People

  "McCain, Obama go head to head in last debate". edition.cnn.com. October 15, 2008.

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• Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

  Agnes Denes

  Strong, Earth, Invisible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it`s important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what`s on their minds.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Old Friends, Mind

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Keys

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• It is really important for women to look up and see other women being successful. When I was in that position, all I wanted to do was blend in and be one of the guys.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Successful, Guy, Looks

  "Pauline Neville-Jones: 'Some say I didn't make it easy on myself'". Interview with Nick Hopkins, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2011.

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• The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.

  Charlize Theron

  Fall, Succeed, Tone

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium. So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines - technical things which are important, but I don't think they change the way I feel in a scene.

  Bill Nighy

  Thinking, Feelings, Lines

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.

  Robert Reich

  Self, Years, People

  "Robert Reich: Making people laugh about economic inequality". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.

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• If for you the most important thing is to make a lot of money, then you don't want to take a certain type of risk. If, on another hand, the most important thing to you is to make people around you have a more fulfilled life, then there is a different set of things that are important to you. Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.

  Benjamin Carson

  Hands, People, Risk

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't worry about things that aren't important.

  Benjamin Carson

  Worry

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to me that people would get something out of my book. I want people to read it and say, "Now I don't feel so alone," or "I'm going to remember that next time I'm being an asshole."

  Lizz Winstead

  Book, Writing, Self

  "Lizz Winstead, Freely Speaking". Interview with Lianne Stokes, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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• Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

  Kurt Loder

  Stories, Television, Literature

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• I think it’s important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.

  Mike Leigh

  Thinking, Hollywood, Cinema

  "The Auteur, The Voyeur: Mike Leigh Talks". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2010.

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• It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

  Steve Lacy

  Giving Up, Sound, Rotten

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• It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Research, Medical, Disorder

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• The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.

  Mike Lee

  Country, Party, Voice

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• So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Want, Messages

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• So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot.

  Nicholas Lea

  Loyalty, Thinking, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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