Competing is very, very important me.

I think competing is more important than winning. There have been a lot of times when I've teed it up and I didn't win…

— Juli Inkster

It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand…

— Alexis Arquette

I am excited to partner with Aeropostale for my very own collection. It was a great experience to be able to work with them.…

— Bethany Mota

It's very important to me that I look good when I go out publicly. I like looking at my clothes rack in the morning…

— Anna Wintour

We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final…

— Richard M. Daley

I competed every day as a professional football player... You've got to like competing. That's how your team gets better, when you have competition…

— Herm Edwards

Fiscal prudence is very important.

— Smriti Irani

Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental…

— Maya Beiser

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

— Tim O'Brien

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over.…

— Pat Gillick

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So…

— Robert Caro

Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me…

— Cybill Shepherd

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

— Guler Sabanci

My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu