I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge.
And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.
Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really difficult and take longer than you'd like (it may even be painful), but other times it can be really easy and happen much faster than you expected. But either way - it is important, and it feels so much better when it's done.
Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.
Because of the way that I work with the actors and because a scene is not in this rigid and literal interpretation of something written, I can constantly change stuff, which means I can get a scene absolutely perfect, and then when we go to shoot it, the requirements of the shot mean it would be useful to extend the dialogue or take a line out or swap things around. So the camera doesn't serve the action. The action serves the camera. That's important. So it becomes more and more organic and integrated.
I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
We trust Hillary Clinton, my wife and I, we trust her with the most important thing in our life.
There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich.
The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
What you stand for is more important than what you stand in.
I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.
One of the most important skills at [reporting] is not so much what comes out of your mouth but what you hear. To listen. When you interview people, it's very important to understand the nuances of what they're saying and to understand when they have actually made news-when they've told you something that they haven't told anybody else.
The most important time in life is the present.
Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.
Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health.
Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.
I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue.
Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
We have in Tennessee a number of wonderful faith-based clinics to serve the uninsured. It is an important principle with them that everyone pays something as they are able.
