Important Quotes

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.

It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.

Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix.

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.

When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.