Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
I definitely want children. That's important to me, so I just want to make sure that I'm completely prepared for it when that day comes.
What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services and hardware over the Net. That's a form of electronic marketplace.
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.
Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
At the end of the day, TV is supposed to be entertaining. But it's important for me that there's some take-away value from it.
When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.
Like I've said many times before, I'm always more likely to remember goals for their importance rather than if they're beautiful or not. Goals scored in finals, for example.
Nobody in Formula One has won so many titles, so many races as I did. So Ferrari for me is crucial; it is more than important.
That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.
I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth.
Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.
I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.
No court presumes to tell a jury that they are to try a capital case with the same indifference and unconcern as to consequences, that they would a case where the results of their decision would be less important.
No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.
The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
