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• Cancer changes your life, often for the better. You learn what's important, you learn to prioritize, and you learn not to waste your time. You tell people you love them. My friend Gilda Radner used to say, 'If it wasn't for the downside, having cancer would be the best thing and everyone would want it.' That's true. If it wasn't for the downside.

  Gilda Radner

  Cancer, People, Important

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• Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to "real life" -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit.

  George Saunders

  Art, Real, Black

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.78, A&C Black

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• We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Men, Important

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.51, Anchor

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• What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Team

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.268, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Hero, Differences, Important

  "Fictional character: J. Edgar Hoover". "J. Edgar", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When we go out looking for stories we are, I think, in many ways going in search of ourselves, trying to find understanding of our lives, and the people around us. Stories, and language tell us what’s important.

  Kameron Hurley

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

  Sue Grafton

  Voice, Important, Train

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• To be simple means to make a choice about what's important, and let go of all the rest. When we are able to do this, our vision expands, our heads clear, and we can better see the details of our lives in all their incredible wonder and beauty.

  John Daido Loori

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  John Daido Loori (2007). “The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life”, p.154, Ballantine Books

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• We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Important, Facts

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• Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor

  Garrison Keillor

  Beauty, Beautiful, Thinking

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• I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

  Matt Damon

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  "Matt Damon: I Want to 'Raise My Four Girls to Be Strong Women' " by Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. October 21, 2010.

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• What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines: for example, that they argue against physician-assisted suicide not just by speculating about God's wrath or the afterlife, but by talking about what they see as assisted suicide's potential injustices.

  John Rawls

  Suicide, Talking, Afterlife

  Interview with Bernard G. Prusak, www.commonwealmagazine.org. September 25, 1998.

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• What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

  Hermann Broch

  People, Promise, Important

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• That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life.

  Russell Simmons

  Dad, Fatherhood, Important

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• Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

  June Jordan

  People, Important, What's Important

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• What's important is that my family and I are all good.

  Solange Knowles

  Important, What's Important, My Family

  "Solange speaks on Jay Z fight: 'My family and I are all good'" By Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2014.

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• Paintin's not important. What's important is keepin' busy.

  Moses

  Important, What's Important, Busy

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• The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.

  John Lennon

  People, Hypocrisy, Smoking

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• What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

  Lois Lowry

  Preparation, Training, Important

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

  Bon Scott

  Song, Rocks, Play

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• Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.

  Annie Chapman

  Mean, Simple, Light

  Annie Chapman (2005). “Simplify Your Hectic Life”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't dug it up and taken care of it, we'd know hardly anything about the ancient world. What's important about a nation's past is not what it keeps walled up in the museum but what it keeps outside, living and breathing as every citizen's inheritance.

  Mark Steyn

  Taken, Past, Museums

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• Based on my experience as a prosecutor in Miami, illegal immigration is one of the most critical issues facing this country. As a prosecutor, I felt the burden of it. I think what's important... is for the state and the federal government and for local governments to work together to do everything possible to control illegal immigration in a comprehensive way.

  Janet Reno

  Country, Thinking, Government

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