Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids.
Innovation and corporate governance are extremely important to improve the profitability of Japanese companies and encourage them to increase wages, capital spending, and dividends.
We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
Allopathic doctors used to laugh condescendingly at those who posited that psychological, emotional and spiritual factors were important contributors to the sickness as well as healing of the body.
I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
I have and will continue to oppose any legislation that would undermine the important consumer protections provided under Dodd-Frank.
Your wedding day is supposed to be your big day, and yet a lot of engaged couples find that instead of creating an event that will be important to them, they're dodging through a minefield of modern etiquette traps.
It's definitely important to have a vision, to have kind of a sense of what might be possible, but not to be dogmatic about your beliefs about the way something has to be done.
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment.
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.
That's why investigations are so important, to drill down and to connect those dots and to get the facts. What we have is a lot of smoke that causes us to want to know more about what has happened.
Humor is important. Nothing against bands that are always a downer, but the reality is - it just becomes theater.
Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.
If we were to raise interest rates too steeply, and we were to trigger a downturn or contribute to a downturn, we have limited scope for responding, and it is an important reason for caution.
It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.
The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.