Failing to win is not important, but failing to participate is.
Every important machine's got to have a big red button.
I think it's important to have mystique.
Honesty has always been very important to me.
It is important not to trust people too much.
It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.
Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.
Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.
You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.
It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.
Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.
Class is more important than a game.
Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
The value of a life is but your consciousness of its importance.
I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work.
Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.
Some things change, and some things stay the same. The things that change are the things that I wish stayed the same, and the things that stay the same are the things I wish changed.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Don't try and do the right thing, because there is no right thing; there's just the right thing for you.
The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.