Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
The only really important thing, at the end of the day, is your health. If you haven't got that, then all the money in the world isn't going to bring you happiness.
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.
For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.
As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is important that we understand our responsibility to affect positive change in our communities.
Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.
Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.
I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
It's great to get paid for what you love doing most. To enjoy your work. And to follow that. It's important.
I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
