Quotes with self-important

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  • Audre Lorde I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • E. F. Schumacher I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
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  • Buzz Aldrin I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Angelina Grimké I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
    Angelina Grimké
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Ali Smith I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.
    Girl Meets Boy (2007) 140
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • George Washington I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Albert Einstein I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • William James I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Oscar Wilde I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jan Carlzon I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.
    Jan Carlzon
    Swedish businessman (1941 - )
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  • Jane Austen I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • George F. Will I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • George H.W. Bush I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity.
    George H.W. Bush
    American politician and president (41st) (1924 - 2018)
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  • Arsene Wenger I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I think in your home, you should only use colors that you look good in. It's a little self-serving but think if it as you're on a stage. Not with any pressure, but you want to showcase yourself.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Arthur Miller I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Busy Philipps I think it's important for kids to express themselves with bad fashion. I struggle a little bit now because I have a daughter and I feel with fashion, like they're sexualizing the kids so young. Little kids in high heels and that kind of thing is really difficult for me to wrap my head around.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Ann Veneman I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Aaliyah I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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