Everybody's life matters.
I have worked really hard since the age of eight, so each phase of my life is equally important.
Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.
Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.
God's Kingdom isn't divided into areas of important people and areas of little people. In God's sight, everyone's needful.
I'm drawn as well to the lower echelons of things because it struck me a long time ago that it didn't really matter on what level people were working on anything; it was just as important to them as the people working on what's perceived as a higher level.
Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other.
I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement.
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
The way I see it, I belong to the film as any other department.
If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives.
No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
No albums are better or worse than each other, and they're all important to our legacy and our story.
I have always considered desserts to be of equal importance to the savory food.
When we are thinking in an attacking moment, I want the goalkeeper thinking, for that, he is the first. The same when we are thinking defensively - I want our strikers to be thinking, 'We need to protect the goalkeepers.' I want those two moments to feel the same for all players.
There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.
To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.
The team comes first. Not one person is more important than the other.
Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.
When you have done the spiritual growing up you realize that every human being is of equal importance, has work to do in this world, and has equal potential. We are in many varied stages of growth; this is true because we have free will. You have free will as to whether you will finish the mental and emotional growing up. Many choose not to.
I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.
There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all.
The main thing for me is to consider sport at an equal level as you would consider mathematics or poetry at school. It's another place where you can send your kids; they can have fun, but you can expect them to have good teachers, and you can expect them to progress.
The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with equal clearness and equal force.
