Important Quotes - Page 136

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our economy which is doing reasonably well ... If somebody is going to work that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity on. That's an extremely important point.

Saving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated.

I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.

I don't know my future. I don't know about tomorrow. I can just control for today or present, right now. I don't want to think about future too much, because present is most important for me.

I think that it's important to have good people around you, like my friends.

I really don't like watching myself and for the most part I will never watch myself. I worked with Kevin Smith on Yoga Hosers and I really respected the way that he directed. He told me, "It's very important to watch yourself." So he would direct by going, "Hey come over to the screen and watch this scene." And so it was very uncomfortable for me to have to watch myself but then he talked me through the process of that and it was very helpful.

We define content very broadly. Representing chefs, designers, makeup artists - it's all important.

I think its important for movies to recognize that they are part of a history of movies. I also think that most movies are about movies anyway, even if they're about something else.

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

Even in the worst time of life, if you are still breathing, that means you are still alive. If you are still here, you haven't accomplished what is still to be accomplished. The most important part of your life is still ahead of you.

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.

You have to be happy with yourself first of all - that's the most important thing.

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

I think it's important to be honest with yourself about what you want and it's important to be honest with your partner about what you need.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

This may shock you, but the most important person in your life is you. You are meant to be 'full of yourself.

I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.