Important Quotes - Page 391

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.'

Donald Trump's campaign has raised about $100,000 in donations during the second quarter. Which raises an important question: Who is giving Donald Trump money? That's like giving your money to a pile of money.

I like any title with the letters U.S. in front of it. To me, the U.S. Open is the most important tournament in the world.

For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

It is often just as important to be perceived as something as actually to be that something and, as a matter of fact, a candidate need not be anything ideologically at all.

The Bible and studying the Bible has been an important part of my life.

NASCAR does a good job of trying to keep things equal with new rules. We're not allowed to have computers in our cars to tell the crew what's going on. So the only thing you have is the driver, and the driver-crew chief relationship. That's the most important thing.

It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.

If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have gotten more out of life. But I believed I was doing hugely important work. I was elitist about it.

There's a generation of people that do fetishize books and do fetishize catalogues and do look at them as something important. The same thing with magazine culture: because magazines don't make the amount of money that they used to, it's become important again to another generation of people to actually read them. And it's very, very pinpointed to the select people that actually fetishize and go in and look at them.

Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. ... In developed capitalist economies, private consumption spending accounts for half or more of GDP.

I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly alien to me.

Most of those who spend their lives as critics secretly wish they'd be considered important enough for someone to bother criticizing them.

I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.

I think when I started doing stand-up, that's when I really tried to question everything in my belief system which is - I think a pretty important part of being a comedian is really questioning things.

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy.

An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish what you want to get done.

I think it's important never to look a gift horse in the mouth, never to overlook your talents [and] what you're good at.

When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going on in the world, maybe they need these two people