Important Quotes - Page 33

• We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right.

  Regina Brett

  Dad, Land, Long

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• I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

  Pete Wentz

  Thinking, Looks, World

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• I think hair is just, like, the most important thing about you.

  Pete Wentz

  Thinking, Hair, Important Things

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• To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Intelligent, Past, Perception

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Siege of Darkness: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.15, Wizards of the Coast

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• I think it's definitely important to look like yourself on a date. You don't want to look like someone else with too much makeup or too much hair.

  Lauren Conrad

  Makeup, Thinking, Hair

  "Lauren Conrad Talks About her Paper Crown Collection!". Interview with Lindsey Caldwell, www.seventeen.com. September 20, 2011.

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• If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.

  Lauren Conrad

  Names, People, Want

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• SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Government, Quests, Corporations

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• When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Hands, Written

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• Yoga answers a lot of physical problems such as back pain, stress issues, and any kind of joint problems or illnesses. Even more important is the spiritual questioning that comes up around our middle years. We wonder what do I want to hand down to my children, and how do I want to spend my days on this earth? I think yoga begins to help us look at what our passions and our dreams are. And it helps give us the courage once we find passion to actually pursue that!

  Rodney Yee

  Dream, Spiritual, Children

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• What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

  Anton Chekhov

  Serious, Forgotten, Significant

  "The Three Sisters". Play by Anton Chekhov, Act I, 1901.

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• A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.

  Arthur Miller

  Ideas, Insanity, Firsts

  1958 The Collected Plays,'Introduction, II'.

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• At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Lying, Thinking, Next Day

  "Nickel and Dimed". Book by Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001.

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• Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.

  Samuel Smiles

  Home, School, Character

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.31

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• PETA is such an important cause to me. The mistreatment of animals is something that just really gets me. I feel it's really the most important part of what I do. Don't Eat Meat! Don't Wear Fur! I mean, there are so many other options these days.

  Pamela Anderson

  Mean, Animal, Meat

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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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• The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Survival

  Wendell Berry (2009). “The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry”, p.155, Counterpoint Press

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• I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately.

  Arnold Bennett

  Done, Want, Honeymoon

  Arnold Bennett (1910). “The Honeymoon: A Comedy in Three Acts”, New York : G.H. Doran

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• The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Literature, Way, Said

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• The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Law, Ideas, Honor

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Turn in the South”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

  Chinua Achebe

  Dance, Girl, Dancing

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• The reality of today, different as it is from the reality of my society one hundred years ago, is and can be important if we have the energy and the inclination to challenge it, to go out and engage with its peculiarities, with the things that we do not understand. The real danger is the tendency to retreat into the obvious, the tendency to be frightened by the richness of the world and to clutch what we always have understood.

  Chinua Achebe

  Real, Years, Challenges

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.50, Penguin

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• It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important--and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year. This is what is expected of novelists. And I have never been really too much concerned with doing what is expected of novelists, or writers, or artists. I want to do what I believe is important.

  Chinua Achebe

  Believe, Writing, Artist

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• Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil is too swampy for the cultivation of the yams which God has directed him to grow. God tells him to bring in a blacksmith to dry the soil with his bellows. The contribution of humanity to this creation is so important. God could have made the world perfect if he had wanted. But he made it the way it is. So that there is a constant need for us to discuss and cooperate to make it more habitable, so the soil can yield, you see.

  Chinua Achebe

  Morning, Men, Yield

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• Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

  Chinua Achebe

  Girl, Dancing, Looks

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.20, Anchor

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• 'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man?'

  Laura Riding

  Character, Men, Names

  "The Idea of God". "Essays from 'Epilogue' 1935-1937". Book by Laura Riding, Robert Graves, and Mark Jacobs, 2001.

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