Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Important Things Quotes from famous authors such as Frankie Boyle, Maryanne Wolf, Sundar Pichai, Dominic Thiem, Gianluca Vialli. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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I think the most important things my book does is to give readers the address of George Monbiot’s website and how to get hold of comic books by Grant Morrison.
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Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we connect thought to what we read – critical analysis, analogical reasoning, how we infer from the text, how do we take another’s perspective.
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We don’t expect Google as a first party service to provide all the answers. Part of the reason a platform is successful is because there are very very important things from other companies and other developers on top of the platform.
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Movement is one of the most important things. My consistency, everything – there’s a lot to improve. Coaches are never happy. But I’d like to keep improving, go deeper in the tournaments, and get as high in the rankings as possible.
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One of the important things, which I wrote on yellow post-it notes and stuck on the wall during therapy, was that we are the product of our own thoughts.
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We can’t change the past but we can learn from history and remember the important things – the sacrifices our loved ones made, and the price of our freedom today.
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I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.
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Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is – the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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I was just so focused on being healthy for my baby during pregnancy, and afterward I was not in a rush to lose the weight. I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn’t about getting my six-pack back. There are more important things in life than a six-pack, I realized.
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I think the Labour government did good and important things, and it’s really important not to undervalue them. I see in my constituency how it helped with education and all those things.
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Yeah, I think there are many other important things in life, not just tennis.
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My religion and my family are the two most important things in my life. But I love basketball.
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One win more, one defeat more. There are other important things: family, friendship, values.
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There are more important things in life than boxing.
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You have to starve the Beast. That’s one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it’s going to be spent.
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If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.
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What I look for in a role is a woman who is important – not on the sidelines, not arm candy: women who do important things.
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Education can also be used as a soft power and as a soft force to transform societies. When I say transform societies it means we can tackle issues in political, social, cultural, economic areas. These are the most important things.
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Not the spectacular things are the important things – the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.
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One of the most incredible and important things about the theater is that we’re creating a safe space for all feelings, but especially, ugly feelings.
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The important things for me are stability, consistency and love, and I have that through my family, so that’s a great place to be.
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Babies are wonderful, important things. Having kids, even the thought of having kids, is a big emotional deal. But sometimes it can cause people to change their financial plans and directions.
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One of the most important things that I want for my kids is I want them to live. You know, I want them to live to see 21 and beyond.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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The songs I write and sing try to say important things with a lightness.
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I think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness.
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I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It’s important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.
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But there’s not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There’s too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.
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I think basketball IQ, work ethic, competitiveness are probably the most important things in a basketball player.
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I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.
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One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don’t know.
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I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.
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Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.
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I hope I have important things to say.
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Physical health and mental health are the most important things that members should take care of.
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You don’t get to see your family much. In the movie business, directors often go out of town for long periods of time, and even if you’re in town, you’re working 14-15 hour days. People tend to not balance out the important things in their lives with their career.
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We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.
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That’s one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don’t have hometown love, then what’s the point?
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Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn’t care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it’s not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.
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When you start living in with a person, over a period of time, you could start losing interest. That’s when you could lose out on important things and marriage is one of those big things.
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Being a husband and a dad are the two most important things in my life.
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It doesn’t mean you can’t discuss important things, but I would never do a joke about cancer, just because I don’t think any joke is funny enough to justify upsetting someone who is going through that.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan’s Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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The two most important things is, one, the music in my life, and the family. It’s somehow connected because music is about human beings, about love, about hate, about everything that happens in life.
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I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.
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Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
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There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.
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If I were asked to say the most important things that lead to a successful life, I should say that, first of all, was integrity – unimpeachable integrity.
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Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of doing, but it can be done.
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I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we have womanhood in common, we have to start to think about the ways in which we’re different, how those differences affect us, and what kinds of needs we have based on our differences.
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I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn’t make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.
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One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it’s very hard to put your finger on what creates that.
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I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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When it’s good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person’s life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I’d never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
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For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
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One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you’ve seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you’re talking about; and then take pictures of them.
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Stop comparing yourselves with others and let’s talk about more important things that are happening worldwide. Come out, speak for yourself, because you are the leader of your life. You are the voice of your own.
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‘Life, Love & Hope’ is… I’m thinking ‘larger picture.’ I’m not trying to preach to anyone. We all get lost and caught up in our everyday problems. Your cellphone doesn’t work or you got a parking ticket, you had a bad day at work. You can lose sight of the really important things in life; that’s what the song is about.
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The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
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One of the important things is that a lot of people forget that a biker club is a secret society.
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The most important things in life have nothing to do with things.
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Glendale is such a mecca of our fans. They are the most important things. It’s the fans and then music, then we come third or fourth.
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There are two important things to remember about ‘entitlements’: They are hugely popular programs for a very good reason, and actual sensible ‘reform’ would mean improving them, not sacrificing them at the altar of ‘fiscal responsibility.’
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I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.
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One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don’t say ‘insecure’ in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: ‘Are they good enough?’ ‘Is this the right thing to do?’ I really beat myself up over that.
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For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I’m aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.
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We were an underprivileged family. My parents were both tailors. We got by. But we only had a few important things in our life.
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Every status update you read on Facebook, every tweet or text message you get from a friend, is competing for resources in your brain with important things like whether to put your savings in stocks or bonds, where you left your passport, or how best to reconcile with a close friend you just had an argument with.
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The kids are fixing their eyes on social media, and the stories they’re looking at may not be the most important things. I’m guilty of that, too. Do you want to look at Instagram or the news? It’s a difficult, and weird, situation.
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Financial reward is important, but it shouldn’t be your end goal – you’ll reach your dreams much sooner if you focus your efforts on more important things.
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I never put doubt in myself and that’s single-handedly one of the most important things in whatever it is you’re going to do.
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I learned not to fight against the many bad things in football and try to always battle through injuries. That’s one of the most important things I learned.
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It’s about important things such as having faith, pursuing your dreams and goals. My music is about drive.
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One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it’s different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.
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Learning how to compete is one of the most important things that an athlete can do. You can train as well as you possibly can and go compete and completely choke.
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I think footwork is one of the most important things to becoming a great fighter. That’s where everything starts.
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I think that lunch is one of the most enjoyable and important things in the day. But you need to create the space and the time to do just that. And in Italy, we do that.
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I certainly don’t delude myself that there aren’t certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I can’t imagine anything that would bring me more joy.
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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don’t change diapers in midstream.
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I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.
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Ronaldinho and David Beckham, they took free kicks and took them very well, so there are some players I always try to follow and to learn important things from so that I am able to score goals.
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The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
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It’s true that Ferrari and Monaco are the two most important things to F1.
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You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.
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I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.
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If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That’s because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.
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Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.
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The whole world, it’s a problem that there’s too much stuff being produced. We don’t have time to reflect on the important things in life.
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There are always games where you play for important things, but the semifinal of the Champions League is a responsibility.
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Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
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Some leaders speak a lot in the dressing room, on the field and others do it with actions contributing important things in games, deciding big games.
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I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
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One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.
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Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.
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Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.
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I feel like I’m in a privileged position where I get to meet people and talk to them about the most important things in their lives. I appreciate that trust they’re putting in me.
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One of the most important things to me as a songwriter is to make music that’s young and fresh but also soulful and real. I want people to feel like they know me once they listen to my songs.
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The only important things are family and love.
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We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries – and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?
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The most important things that children want from you are your time and love.
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There are much more important things than a man going to the gym. Of course they have to take care of themselves on a certain level, but it’s not essential. I think men do it more to impress other men.
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In a sense, children who live on a farm become sophisticated, too – but about more important things.
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Here we are, worrying about whether we’re thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat – does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say – because they were too obvious.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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I know that I want to consistently return to doing plays. That’s one of the most important things because I think it’s the best place for me to learn how to act.
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Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things.
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One of the most important things for a CEO is not to get insulated.
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I’m doing a lot of things in Africa. I’ve formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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For me, the most important things are me, myself, and my family.
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I have to do popcorn for movies. I can do more important things for television. You’re going down when you’re making a movie, not going up.
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One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
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Music is part of life. It is not the real life. I belong to that first: family, children. The important things.
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I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn’t push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.
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Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
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One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that’s all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.
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One of the most important things liberals don’t understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism’s various ‘wings,’ is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where ‘traditional morality’ serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.
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There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.
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Sometimes you have to park things you’re not happy with, because there are more important things to be done.
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If you’re a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn’t take more than three hours out of your day – there are other important things to do.
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We’ve got ourselves into a very vain state of society and there’s more important things.
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I can pour myself into Bon Iver. It’s a thing about self- and mental discovery, and those are all important things. But it’s not 148-shows-over-a-year-and-a-half important, though. It’s a machine, and it’s money, and you just get put on this indie rock cart, and it’s embarrassing.
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Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
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So many of my books, I don’t want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.
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I never had lofty dreams of doing important things.
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The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance – all these important things I got from my Catholic background.
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There’s a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There’s a lot of sex, you know, in art. There’s a lot of naked women and men, and there’s intrigue, there’s fakery. It’s a real microcosm of the larger world.
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When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like ‘Krysten, when are you getting married?’ ‘When are you having a kid?’ Honestly, those aren’t the most important things to me right now.
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I think one of the important things that’s happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.
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I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
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Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it’s inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are… You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.
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The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
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God assigned me a few really important things: this life, this vessel, but also my wife and that relationship, the two of us becoming one and then the family that we’ve grown with our four daughters.
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Skin care is one of the most important things for the body and feeling good.
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My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I – they are what I build my world around.
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The most important things in life aren’t things.
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I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.
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One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation.
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One of the most important things we do is we’ve organized our stores and our workforce into teams.
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When you’re trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you’re not so hungry that you can’t get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can’t fight hunger, but we can fight habit.
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If you’re going to have kids, there’s only one way to go. They have to know they’re the most important things in your life, and once you’re doing that, there’s no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.
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One of the most important things for an actor is to know who you are.
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I am not the one who fights unnecessary things. In my life Ive always stood for important things and I have received a lot of flak also for that sometimes but I havent stopped doing it. At the end of the day, I know who I am.
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Is only a tennis match. At the end, that’s life. There is much more important things.
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One of the most important things about using a bullhorn is you don’t have to yell over it.
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I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn’t about getting my six-pack back. There are more important things in life than a six-pack, I realized. It was just so much more important to take care of my baby and take care of myself in a healthy way; so now, it’s been a slow process, but I’m back in shape.
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My entire life consisted of musings, calculations, practical works, and trials. Many questions remain unanswered; many works are incomplete or unpublished. The most important things still lie ahead.
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Kids don’t even read comic books anymore. They’ve got more important things to do – like video games.
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Taking the time to identify and infuse values certainly does affect outcomes and is one of the most important things to get right as the CEO.
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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it’s all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that’s OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it’s going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don’t do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.
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Twitter is the first information that I ingest in the morning. When there are important things happening, friends of mine who follow news feeds will report on it, so I find out about most major news on Twitter.
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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.
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A three-to-six month course can give priority and direction on the five or six important things that entrepreneurs need to do first.
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Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.
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Being humble is one of the most important things, and not being afraid to put yourself out there is important. I think really successful chefs put themselves out there on a daily basis.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.
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For me, family and football are the most important things. They are in the same level.
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It’s one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.
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Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to me by my mother.
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For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?
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All of us, we know, not just in football but in life, that we cannot achieve important things without consistency.
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Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I’ve ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn’t even realized I was carrying.
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Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don’t feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.
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Money has never been important. Having a coach who wants me and who wants to play me, having a good fanbase and an environment in which I am happy – these are the important things to me.
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The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
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There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
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Some people shun the idea of role models but I think it’s one of the most important things people have in life – role models, to look up to.
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Every museum is full of nice things. That’s the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.
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I think one of the most important things for a young player’s development is that they understand that they will play when they deserve the right to play.
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As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.
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My focus – even before becoming CEO – has always been memorable and unique content. And one of the most important things we did to reinforce that was create A+E Studios.
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Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it’s one of the most important things to me, but at this point I can’t see myself doing that professionally. Luckily, for the most part, I don’t feel pressured.
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One of the important things about temptation is, if I’m going to deal with it I’m going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.
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During the season, one of the most important things to eat is the carbs. Protein’s really important, too, but it’s the carbs that are important because I have to consistently refuel for the next day.
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Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things – it almost becomes second nature to do so.
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Personality traits form at an early age and are fixed by early adulthood. Many important things about you change over the course of your lifetime, but your personality isn’t one of them.
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My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.
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Life isn’t so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That’s why I occasionally moralise in my children’s books in a way I wouldn’t dare when writing for adults.
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Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
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Sometimes when you’re relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there’s more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.
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One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
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There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
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One of the important things as a captain or coach is knowing what’s going on around you, and knowing the right thing to say at the right time.
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I try to have a picture when I receive the ball and know where everyone is. That’s one of the most important things for a midfielder.
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When you are not in power for 20 years and several leaders are in the race, it is tough to put forth one face. The most important things are our policies and principles.
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One of the important things to look at is kids who aren’t cheerleaders or aren’t the student-body presidents. In ‘Daddy Day Care,’ one of the kids would only communicate in Klingon. I get that kind of a kid.
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I think one of the most important things is just being outside and in touch with nature. You need it!