Important Quotes - Page 17

• Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important.

  Allan Ray

  Want, Aggression, Coaches

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• I'm a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, .. It's extremely important that we get our message out, but it's also the case that we should not have a monologue with other people. It has to be a conversation, and you can't do that without exchanges and openness.

  Condoleezza Rice

  People, Messages, Students

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• One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.

  Erwin Rommel

  Military, Energy, Tasks

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• If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

  Gerhard Richter

  Play, Choices, Arbitrary

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

  Nora Roberts

  Character, Stories, Literature

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• I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Long, Choices, Way

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• Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.

  Charles Schumer

  New York, Red Flags, Common Sense

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• I think it's more important to show your work to the public.

  Ai Weiwei

  Thinking, Importance, Shows

  "Zodiac sculptures display jailed Chinese artist's vision" by Alexandra Munroe, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2011.

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• The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.

  Frans de Waal

  Needs, Apes, Facts

  "The Bonobo in All of Us". Interview with Sue Western, www.pbs.org. January 1, 2007.

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• Having your goal to focus on is key, but don't let it become more important than your excellence next year and the year after.

  Bill Rodgers

  Keys, Years, Goal

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• Women are one of the most important segments of the adventure travel industry. Women make the vast majority of travel decisions in families - not only the destinations, but the activities. They are the predominant adventure travel planners.

  Christopher Doyle

  Adventure, Decision, Majority

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• The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

  Joe Haldeman

  Writing, Imagination, Advice

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• China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.

  Wen Jiabao

  Russia, Organization, Effort

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• Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel.

  Dave Heineman

  Harvest Time, Nebraska, Fuel

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• The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Europe, Doe, Alliances

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• We have learned that the things we amassed to prove to ourselves how valuable, how important, how successful we were, didn't prove it at all. In fact, they have very little to do with it. It's what's inside of us, not what's outside of us that counts.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Successful, Littles, Facts

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• Minnesota is very important. You're going to have a competitive race for the Senate, a competitive governor's race, you have an open seat in the 6th (Congressional) District, a state legislature that is closely divided, and a state that was very competitive in 2000 and 2004 and is likely to be again in 2008.

  Ken Mehlman

  Race, Competition, Minnesota

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• I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.

  Jim Leyland

  Team, Errors, Years

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• In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, .. A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing.

  Evelyn Lau

  Book, Writing, People

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• But we agree with the NTSB that if we eliminated the thrust- reverser calculation, it would be an extra margin of safety. Airport capacity and airline efficiency are important, but safety is the most important thing.

  Laura Brown

  Airports, Safety, Would Be

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• Financial literacy is not an end in itself, but a step-by-step process. It begins in childhood and continues throughout a person's life all the way to retirement. Instilling the financial-literacy message in children is especially important, because they will carry it for the rest of their lives. The results of the survey are very encouraging, and we want to do our part to make sure all children develop and strengthen their financial-literacy skills.

  George Karl

  Retirement, Children, Skills

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• It doesn't matter if it's in my class or around the world, anywhere, the first thing I say is "First of all guys, I want to give my Heavenly Father credit for all I do and the Lord Jesus Christ to give me the opportunity to go out and reach and save lives." To me, that's the most important thing.

  Billy Blanks

  Jesus, Father, Opportunity

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• For me, my faith is a really big part of my life, and it is important for me to walk it out every day, .. Part of our faith as Christians is the command that we let people see who we are as Christians. I'm doing my part to show who I am and that I'm not ashamed of it.

  Ashley Young

  Christian, Who I Am, People

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• I think most important, you need to have the compassion and caring for helping to protect vulnerable people.

  Ellen Sauerbrey

  Caring, Thinking, Compassion

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• Global warming competes with cancer and competes with AIDS for a finite amount of money. Nobody ever won that fight by saying: My issue isn't important.

  Patrick Michaels

  Cancer, Fighting, Issues

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