While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.
To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.
We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.
I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.
There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.
It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.
Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
I love it, but it's not important to me to always be thought of as sexy. I like it when it doesn't limit my career. It's a part of my life, but on a secondary plane.
You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.
When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
I want to sit and be less career oriented. Snowboard, dirt bike, mountain bike, surf. Just be human. To me, that's an important part of life.
Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.
It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.
When it really comes down to it, the job you do is more important and is more representative of who you are than your sexuality or anything else that you have going on in your life.
I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
