What's Important Quotes - Page 4

• My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

  Michael Imperioli

  Important, What's Important, My Family

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• To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important.

  Andre Benjamin

  Thinking, Important, Musician

  Source: collider.com

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• You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not difficult to be a good person. And so when people aren't good around me, I tend to move away from that. There are so many good people in the world, and you want to surround your children with that.

  Pamela Anderson

  Children, Moving, Kids

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• I always say that I can help someone who can already compose, but if they can't, I can't help them. I can advise on technical issues, of course, like how low the piccolo can go, but otherwise what's important is not wisdom but enthusiasm.

  George Benjamin

  Issues, Important, Enthusiasm

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.

  Kay Hagan

  Believe, Important, North Carolina

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• Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see. Focus on what you think you need to find in your art.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Art, Hate, Thinking

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• I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

  Diana Ross

  Order, Years, Parent

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• The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Knowing, Important, Answers

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• I have really seen the best in people and I've absolutely seen the worst in people. And I'm happy to say that most of the time I have been seeing the best of people in the first congressional district and connecting with voters and seeing what's important to them hearing their stories and what they want to see happen.

  Rob Zerban

  People, Important, Stories

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.

  Kathy Mattea

  Life, Umpires, Inspire

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• My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me.

  Roy DeCarava

  People, Survival, Important

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• You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

  Jim Balsillie

  Real, Important, Attention

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• I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Work, Mean

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• I don't think it's particularly useful to be going to another country and staying in a classroom and just studying in the classroom. What's important, I think, is to get immersed into the local economy.

  Robert J. Dolan

  Country, Thinking, Important

  "Robert Dolan Innovates Michigan’s MBA Program". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 13, 2009.

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• What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.

  June Jordan

  Powerful, Mean, Poetry

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• The connection, that's what's important - that through this medium we can, perhaps, understand and touch each other.

  Paolo Pellegrin

  Important, Connections, What's Important

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• If you can take something as ultimately frivolous [as a comic book] in the cosmic scale of things in the universe and what's important - people being born and dying and everything else that's gonna happen today - if one gay kid in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, reads an X-Men comic and feels for a second like maybe they're not entirely alone in the world - that's amazing. I'll take it. Whatever size victory that is, I will take.

  Matt Fraction

  Book, Kids, Gay

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• Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

  Julia Child

  Memories, Important, Way

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 15, 2014.

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• What's important is to remain human.

  Katerina Gogou

  Important, What's Important, Humans

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• As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Important, What's Important, Duty

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• The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a Scout are like a compass. They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain. The principles of Scouting give you a sense of what's important. I feel I owe the Boy Scouts a great deal, both personally and professionally.

  Bill Bradley

  Boys, America, Giving

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• I'm almost 50, so I obviously don't have the same body that I had when I was 20. But I also don't have the same mindset either, when I was wracked with self-consciousness and insecurity. Now I really appreciate my maturity as a woman, my depth of spirit and soul and my understanding of who I am and what's important to me.

  Elle Macpherson

  Maturity, Self, Who I Am

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• If you do things to the limit, and don’t purposely go over that limit, then I think it’s fine to do whatever you want. So long as you enjoy it. That’s what’s important.

  Michael Schumacher

  Thinking, Long, Important

  "Schumacher keeps his foot down" by Maurice Hamilton, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2002.

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• I think what's important for myself and anyone else who wants to create a film, or art, is [to] make sure that they have something to say, that they want to share something important, express something important.

  Tom Ford

  Art, Thinking, Important

  AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don’t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you’re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what’s important.

  Wil Wheaton

  Important, Needs, Proud

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