Importance Quotes - Page 14

• When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Careers, Graves, Disturbing

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• So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.

  Thomas Keneally

  Sports, School, Australia

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• There’s no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Appreciate, Support

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 16, 2012.

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• There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

  Keith O'Brien

  Doubt, Influence, Institutions

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• Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

  Kevin Powers

  Writing, Differences, Equal

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• I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!

  Tom Peters

  Funny, Believe, Flower

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• I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.

  Alan Lewis

  Giving, Mind, Might

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• Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

  Annette Lu

  Democracy, Taiwan, East

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• The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.

  Monica Potter

  Father, Real, Heart

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• Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Issues, Addresses, Responsible

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• Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

  John Polkinghorne

  Thinking, Years, Culture

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• I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Government, Decision, Berlin

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

  Mary Roach

  People, Mars, Young

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• The importance of the House is... far more important than my future.

  Peter Slipper

  House, Important, My Future

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• Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

  Anton Seidl

  Real, Book, Might

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.100, Parrot Press

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• The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Numbers, Inquiry

  Samuel Johnson, William P. Page (1840). “The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...”, p.40

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• We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.

  Nicholas Stern

  Years, Ice, Data

  "Stern: Climate change deniers are 'flat-earthers'" by Sunny Hundal, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2009.

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• The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

  Steve Sabol

  Artist, Language

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

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• Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Moon, Should Have, Way

  "A Beautiful Mind" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.

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• When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

  Mo Yan

  Important, Doe, Literature

  "Mo Yan accepts Nobel prize, defends 'necessary' censorship" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

  Mitt Romney

  Causes, Clarity, Foreign Policy

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• We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years

  Gwen Ifill

  Real, Years, Accountability

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Assuming

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• While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing? I must and shall benefit them, but without ever succumbing to the poison of self-importance.

  Shantideva

  Buddhist, Self, Encounters

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• Let me tell you something big: Give importance to little things!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving, Littles, Little Things

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