- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The single most important thing in learning my craft was being on the stage.
- City Council
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- Nov 07, 2020
There had to be something more important than me being comfortable, me being OK, and me being that one person that made it from Stockton. That's why I decided to run for city council in 2012.
- Community College
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to invest in our kids who are going to go to college or community college or a trade school.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great that we can, however subtly, offer important lessons through cartoons that it's important to protect the environment.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Labor, no matter how inexpensive, will become a less important asset for growth and employment expansion, with labor-intensive, process-oriented manufacturing becoming a less effective way for early-stage developing countries to enter the global economy.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Next to my family, it seems clear to me that the educational institutions and the teachers from whom I had the privilege of learning were especially important.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most important for the circadian field was the pioneering work of Ron Konopka in Seymour's lab.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
As minorities and other immigrant groups become more important to our economy, the inner city is a crucible that gives us an early look at phenomena that are going to be spreading more broadly in the economy over time.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always important that we have transparency, that we have shareholder protection. Then again, I think it is important that there are not so many regulations that management can't make a decision without asking a lawyer whether he can do it.
- Value
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020