The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.
Freedom of expression is very important.
It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman.
But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.
Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.
We've got very large freshman class, it's historic in its size, so there's people that are extremely diverse in their backgrounds and their viewpoints. I think that we're going to see a conservative group of people coming together, focused on some real ideals that are going to be extremely important.
Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.
I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
Of course methane is a fossil fuel, but as long as it is burned efficiently and fugitive emissions of methane gas are minimised, it is a less harmful fossil fuel than coal and oil and is an important way-station on the global journey towards low-carbon energy.
Sometimes I'll work in America, sometimes I'll work in England. What's important is fulfilment. I just want to tell stories.
Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best.
It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
You don't have to be a brilliant historian to know that in Europe, messing with countries' borders, messing with their self-determination, their ability to choose their own futures, this is extremely dangerous, and that's why I think it is important to stand up to Putin.
Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color.
Hubble is the most important telescope in history after Galileo's first telescope.
