Importance Quotes - Page 36

• Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing.

  Woody Allen

  Depressing, Years, Political

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• I have nothing to do with comics. I know nothing about comics. I am aware of the importance of comics, but they're not within my world. Not because I feel that I'm above it, but just that micro-surgery is not in my world either. Is that a deficit or is that an advantage?

  Christoph Waltz

  World, Advantage, Surgery

  "Rogen, Diaz, Chou, Waltz, Gondry and Moritz Talk About Making 'the Green Hornet'". Interview with the filmmakers, www.hollywoodnews.com. January 13, 2011.

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• Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and image, and no one else's. This is why it is difficult to fit the artist into a world that has already been created, a seven-day, fixed and solidified world: he will inevitably slip out of the set of laws and paragraphs, he will be a heretic.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Law

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• We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment.

  Narendra Modi

  Skills, Giving, India

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• The importance of a journey is not measured by the distance covered, but by the destination reached.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Distance, Journey

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• Cleanliness & good sanitation in schools is a matter of high importance.

  Narendra Modi

  School, Empowerment, India

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• Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Numbers, People, Statistics

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly, that who you are isn't the stuff you have.

  Demi Moore

  Perspective, Trying, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.

  Michael Moore

  Humor, People, Political

  "The Corporation". Documentary, History, 2003.

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• The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love.

  Charles Fillmore

  Lying, Helping Others, Tasks

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• Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Stealing, Genuine

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.226, The Floating Press

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• Do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money, or praise. Be content to be a private, insignificant person, known and loved by God and me....of what importance is your character to mankind, if you was buried just now. Or if you had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God.

  John Wesley

  Character, Loss, Causes

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• The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

  Sydney Smith

  Life, Food, Science

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.278

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• Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.

  Larry King

  Jobs, Self, Journalism

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• The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

  Abigail Adams

  Character, May, Steps

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• Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.”? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Oxygen, Logical Arguments

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• It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished

  John Adams

  Community, Guilt, Innocence

  John Adams (1965). “Legal Papers of John Adams”

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• There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.

  Charles Taylor

  Giving, Missing, Way

  Charles Taylor (1994). “Multiculturalism”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Giving, Literature

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

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• It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity.

  John Norman

  Sex, Practice, Imagination

  "Imaginative Sex". Book by John Norman, 1974.

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• The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

  Felix Adler

  Sunday, Church, Maintaining

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• As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.

  Jon Porter

  Meaningful, Parent, Able

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• I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

  Alvin Adams

  Effectiveness, Humanitarian, Missions

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• It's impossible to overvalue the importance of television - both in its serious and less serious functions. It's one of our most important ways of finding out the truth - and also of changing the world, and finding out what in the world needs changing. It's also an immense bringer of joy - I learnt how to laugh through television, and now my children and I, every day of every week, share the joy and stupidity of TV shows - they actually make us HAPPY

  Richard Curtis

  Children, Tv Shows, Laughing

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• It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

  Bobby Scott

  Hippie, Rights, Difficult

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