As the weeks went on, I realized there was an important role comedy would play in healing the tragedies of September 11. Comedy can help people cope, and many people were coming to the clubs to laugh out the stress.
Americans deserve to have their religious beliefs and practices protected. Religious freedom is too important to be trampled by insensitive bureaucracy or bad policy.
I see it as very important that taxpayers have access to all financial transactions.
We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations - and in their lives.
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events. More important, we need to provide a platform for Arab voices.
Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.
I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are not serious. But then, I'm also putting down subject, because like the abstract expressionists, I don't think the subject is important.
Tort reform is important. We need to prevent trial lawyers from killing good jobs.
It's important to find your tribe.
What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
Some of the most important determinants of life paths arise through the most trivial of circumstances.
I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
I think the details and the quality are so important that it has to have an emotional tug. Even if it's the simplest shoe, it has to have something that says, 'Oh, I have to have you.'
In tumultuous times, it's important to have a very mature leader.
Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together.
I think that TV and film are very important mediums to show what people of all races, ethnicities, sexual orientations can do, and I think that, as women, we are still in the process of proving what we can do, what we can accomplish, and who we are.
I really feel like the proper representation of women, in TV and film, is really important and vital.