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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
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I needed to go to one of the top five schools in the nation and never even thought 'What's important to me?' Instead of figuring out what was important, which was obviously being near home, I kind of just went with what everyone thought I should do.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a multi-cultural world, so embracing diversity is important in every industry.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination... Affirmative action, by all statistical measures, has been the central ingredient to the creation of the black middle class.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly think it's important to build relationships with movers and shakers in the fashion industry.
- Act
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- Nov 07, 2020
401k savings accounts have become so important in the landscape of retirement planning that their security and expansion became a top priority in formulating and implementing the Pension Protection Act of 2006 that was enacted during my tenure as the U.S. Secretary of Labor.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
You try and learn from clubs where you have been or actions clubs are taking to grow in certain markets, and that, for myself, is also important.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace is important for Israel.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
One reason for keeping Disney animation separate from Pixar was that by solving their own problems when they finished a film, Disney could say, 'Nobody bailed us out; we did it.' And it's a very important social thing for them to do that.
- Project
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
- Bending
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.
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- Nov 07, 2020