Important Quotes - Page 23

• Everyone, some sooner than others, must endure his or her own personal 'hell on earth.' It is important to keep searching for the small joys, although they are often the most elusive. Trust that these joys will appear, sometimes unexpectedly, and often in life's darkest moments.

  Katie Gill

  Inspirational, Joy, Earth

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• One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Teacher, Mma, Parent

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• The uncomfort zone is very important for us... To feel uncomfortable is important to strengthen your spirit. Like the samurai says, if you feel comfortable you must search for the discomfort, don't look only for the easy way.

  Lyoto Machida

  Mma, Looks, Samurai

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• One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to remember the past, but that doesn't mean you have to torture yourself with it by reliving it every single day.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mean, Past, Keys

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• I think it's important to be an absolute believer and have that confidence.

  Jon Jones

  Thinking, Mma, Believer

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• What you're saying is often less important than what you're feeling when you're saying it.

  Duncan Trussell

  Mma, Feelings

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• Winning is very important to me, but at the end of the day, even if I lose, as long as I know I gave it everything I had, there's no shame in that.

  Nick Newell

  Winning, Mma, Long

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• Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Innovation, Alternatives

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• The most important thing about a fighter is something you can't see, and that's his heart.

  Kenny Florian

  Heart, Mma, Fighter

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• The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, People, Empathy

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that are important to me and then just my own foibles.

  Paul Beatty

  Care, Firsts, Foibles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do something outside your skill set; your skills have to catch up with the things you see in your head. But it's important to make all of those paintings, even the failed ones.

  Joe Bradley

  Skills, Trying, Phases

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think what's happened in art criticism, or art thinking, in last 30 or 40 years is a confusion between the "what" - the subject - and the "how." Most attention goes to the "what," but it's the "how" that's the important part - how something is brought into being.

  Joe Bradley

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Artist, Thinking, Doubt

  Source: collider.com

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• I think the violence is important. It all depends on the genre. Rambo was ultra-violent, and I think it worked. You have to give Stallone credit. You have to respect him for taking that shot, and taking the violence all the way. He was the first one to do that in a long time. It fricking worked.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Thinking, Giving, Long

  Source: movieweb.com

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• As you get older, it's important to have goals. When you're a kid you have them, but other people can set them for you, such as your parents, your school... so, as you get older it's nice to have your own goals, which don't have to do with being more famous, or being in bigger movies, or making more money. Those things kind of corrupt your soul.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Nice, Kids, School

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• People always want to ask me about my dad. Which I get because he's a phenomenal actor, and that's for the world, that's out there. But my mother is every bit as impressive and as important for the world as my dad is. It's just that she's not an actor.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Mother, Dad, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've learned from the past that it's important to recharge and get time in-between jobs, and if I can't get time in-between jobs then when I know I've got some time coming up at the end of a job, really try and take advantage of that. And do very mundane things at home and putter in the garden and spend time with family and make music and, you know, play with the dogs. Just get back to being me.

  Guy Pearce

  Dog, Jobs, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a larger population and more kids to educate. We know that the single most important thing in terms of how well we can compete around the world is the quality of our workforce. We can't do that to our kids.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Years, Quality

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think the most important thing is to take the long view on things. We live in such a 24/7, Twitter-fed, constant news cycle, and everything's a crisis, everything is terrible, everything is doomsday, everything is - if it doesn't get solved tomorrow, your presidency is going off the rails.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Views, Long

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Creating video games is an especially important act. To me, video games are something I both play and create, so they're "special." If I lost one half, the balance would crumble. I need to be able to both play and create games.

  Hidetaka Suehiro

  Lost Ones, Games, Play

  "Beer, Masturbation, And Twin Peaks: A Conversation With Swery65". Interview with Patrick Klepek, kotaku.com. May 1, 2015.

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• To me, video games aren't something as necessary as food or sleep, but they're just as important as delicious food, drinks, afternoon naps, walks, music, and sex (or masturbation). Not having them won't kill you, but without them, your life would be so boring you might as well be dead.

  Hidetaka Suehiro

  Sex, Sleep, Naps

  "Beer, Masturbation, And Twin Peaks: A Conversation With Swery65". Interview with Patrick Klepek, kotaku.com. May 1, 2015.

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• Branding is quite an important thing. As an artist, you want to be able to explore facets of yourself.

  Nick Offerman

  Artist, Want, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the most important things for a country, particularly when it's seeking to attract long-term capital in big risky projects that are going to have a payback over many years if not decades, is to be seen as being a predictable environment where tax changes will be few. But if they are going to come about they'll come about in a way that you know is predictable, understandable.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Country, Years, Long

  "Malcolm Turnbull, Member for Wentworth". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 30, 2010.

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• I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Writing, Comedy, Enjoy

  "Feeling Myself: Kathleen Hanna Gets Back to Work". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2015.

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