Quotes with self-important

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  • Billie Jean King It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Josh Billings It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • John Wooden It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • George Orwell It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Zig Ziglar It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Brandi Carlile It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Carson Kressley It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.
    Carson Kressley
    American television personality, actor, and designer (1969 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan It's self-soothing for me to draw. So if I'm upset, drawing makes me less upset.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Adam Clayton It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Penelope Fitzgerald It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (1916 - 2000)
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  • Ben Carson It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Alex Trebek It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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  • Barry Mann It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Ray Kroc Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
    Ray Kroc
    American businessman, founder McDonalds (1902 - 1984)
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  • Captain Beefheart James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.
    Captain Beefheart
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1941 - 2010)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Bryant H. McGill Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Theodore I. Rubin Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
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  • Blaise Pascal Kings are surrounded with persons who are wonderfully attentive in taking care that the king be not alone and in a state to think of himself, knowing well that he will be miserable, king though he be, if he meditate on self.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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