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Important Quotes
On priorities and knowing what really matters.
These quotes weigh what matters most across very different fields: holding an alliance together ahead of any single military strike, and staying musically open instead of narrowing yourself to one sound. For more, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't say I see things visually first, but what I do think is important, for a lot of screenwriters, is to not just think about the words on the page, but also the world as a whole and the vibe of the movie, rather than a sequence of scenes written on the page.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed trappings. But it does mean that if data is important, radio is probably not your place.
- Foreign Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China's most important philosopher.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Topics that are hard to talk about can be difficult for a lot of people, but it's important that we make sure we're addressing difficult topics/issues so it doesn't become the norm.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be proud of liberating the 26 million people in Iraq and should remember that this is why it is important to stick it out to it's successful conclusion.
- Discredit
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shouldn't have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private individual who's just speaking their mind about an important issue facing the country. That is not going to move our nation forward.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't work at something because I think it's important. I work at things that, to me, are interesting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Print is very important because I think there is nothing like the tactile sense of picking up a magazine.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
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