What's Important Quotes - Page 2

• I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Work, Mean

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• Everybody gets hurt. Sometimes a big hurt, sometimes a little hurt. But the person who's suffered a lot isn't especially strong. And the person who's been hurt a little isn't especially weak. What's important is being able to get over it.

  Sakura Tsukuba

  Strong, Hurt, Important

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• Women are more in touch with their feelings, they're more emotionally developed, they know what's important in life, and the men run around like idiots trying to figure that out until they meet a woman that can show them what's important.

  Rob Reiner

  Running, Men, Feelings

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens
  and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation - is worth it to me. [It is] impossible for me to imagine having
  my life without going to those parties, without having those late nights, without that second bottle.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Writing, Night

  "RIP Christopher Hitchens: Provocateur and Damn Good Writer" by Monika Bauerlein, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don’t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you’re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what’s important.

  Wil Wheaton

  Important, Needs, Proud

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• Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

  Dave Chappelle

  Important, Inventory, What's Important

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• Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important

  Seth Godin

  Important, Fabulous, Measurement

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• What's important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it and feel comfortable in it, before being asked to heal its wounds.

  David Sobel

  Children, Opportunity, Important

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• Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Morning, Nice, Silence

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.

  Eva Mendes

  Reading, Race, Play

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If you do things to the limit, and don’t purposely go over that limit, then I think it’s fine to do whatever you want. So long as you enjoy it. That’s what’s important.

  Michael Schumacher

  Thinking, Long, Important

  "Schumacher keeps his foot down" by Maurice Hamilton, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2002.

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• I'm almost 50, so I obviously don't have the same body that I had when I was 20. But I also don't have the same mindset either, when I was wracked with self-consciousness and insecurity. Now I really appreciate my maturity as a woman, my depth of spirit and soul and my understanding of who I am and what's important to me.

  Elle Macpherson

  Maturity, Self, Who I Am

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• The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a Scout are like a compass. They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain. The principles of Scouting give you a sense of what's important. I feel I owe the Boy Scouts a great deal, both personally and professionally.

  Bill Bradley

  Boys, America, Giving

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• What's important is a great set of objective ears, years of experience and a great room with a true sound. Look at this way: If the equipment in a studio is a high performance car, and the mastering engineer is the driver, putting the car on ice and trying to achieve a good lap time is like trying to master music in a bad room, all the equipment in the world wont help you connect with the music and let you hear what's really happening. The room is the environment in which the mix performs to its potential, as the road is to the car. It's hugely important.

  Chris McCormack

  Years, Ice, Car

  Source: www.hkclubbing.com

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• But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Running, Business, Years

  "The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia". Interview with Jacob Gordon, www.treehugger.com. February 7, 2008.

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• Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

  Julia Child

  Memories, Important, Way

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 15, 2014.

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• What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed the boundaries of what people think art is or should be, and that's how they've made their work relevant. That's what I'm trying to figure out for myself.

  Kadir Nelson

  Art, Book, Thinking

  "In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.

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• Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those things can overpower what's important in life. But as long as you have food and shelter over your head, if the necessities are taken care of, what makes us happy on top of that is very simple.

  Meryl Streep

  Sex, Taken, Simple

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Artistry has to define the Artist so there is no other way but to create the kind of music that speaks about who you are and what's important to you, therefore individualizing the Artist.

  Truth Hurts

  Artist, Important, Way

  Source: popingcherry.wordpress.com

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• If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, Imagination, Important

  "Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

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• What's important to remember politically about this, is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an Exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits. But your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you’re essentially saying to your citizens, you’re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that’s a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these Exchanges, and that they’ll do it. But you know, once again, the politics can get ugly around this.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Country, Mean, Reality

  "Jonathan Gruber: 'It Was Just a Mistake'" by Jonathan Cohn, newrepublic.com. July 25, 2014.

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• What's important is to remain human.

  Katerina Gogou

  Important, What's Important, Humans

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• If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

  Natalie Portman

  Love Life, Important, Way

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• I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, Average, Long

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

  Steve Earle

  Morning, Important, Wake Up

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

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