The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
~By William Sloane Coffin, Jr. ~
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
~By Susan Sontag ~
These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.
~By Neil Jordan ~
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.
~By Josh Lucas ~
For this to make sense, of course, it would have to be a fair financial deal for us. But I think this could be the occasion for us to build a true partnership in content. And we're especially interested because interactive services are a key field for us.
~By Jean-Marie Messier ~
I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.
~By Robert Jay Lifton ~
It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.
~By Jim Garrison ~
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
~By Alain de Botton ~
I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.
~By James Lafferty ~
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
~By Elizabeth Moon ~
I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.
~By Paul Walker ~
I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.
~By Chuck Klosterman ~
A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.
~By John Shadegg ~
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries.
~By Shiri Appleby ~
I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.
~By Marc Wallice ~
It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.
~By Richard H. Davis ~
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.
~By Tracy Kidder ~
We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.
~By Robert E. Sherwood ~
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
~By Anne Tyler ~
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff.
~By Shane West ~
So, when you see a kid with ratty jeans on, wearing sneakers that aren't clean, you know they're in a certain place economically. I was interested in that experience.
~By Jim McKay ~
I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.
~By Walter Koenig ~
Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.
~By Michael Vartan ~
No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: "Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back."
~By Sophia Loren ~
Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!
~By Norman Rockwell ~
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
~By Ann Beattie ~
It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.
~By Kendrick Meek ~
I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say, but I don't know anything about the Rochas.
~By Catherine Crier ~
It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.
~By Diane Watson ~
When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.
~By Beyonce Knowles ~
You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
~By Bernard Meltzer ~
In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
~By Ben Elton ~
I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
~By Albert Brooks ~
Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me.
~By Kevin Williamson ~
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
~By Donald Norman ~
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
~By Dick Wolf ~
My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.
~By Katherine Dunham ~
I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
~By Nick Lowe ~
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
~By Friedrich Engels ~
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.
~By Isabelle Huppert ~
I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
~By Paul Simon ~
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
~By Edouard Manet ~
I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.
~By John Chamberlain ~
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.
~By Robert Jackson ~
There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
~By Natalie Portman ~
I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.
~By Edward Zwick ~
I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?
~By Tony Goldwyn ~
All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.
~By Richard Foreman ~
Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables.
~By Paul Hawken ~
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.
~By Steve Case ~
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
~By Harrison Ford ~
In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.
~By Lou Reed ~
The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
~By Ian McDiarmid ~
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.
~By Joseph Pulitzer ~
I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?
~By Teri Garr ~
A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
~By Cass Canfield ~
I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.
~By Hans Frank ~
When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.
~By James Ellroy ~
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
~By Arthur C. Brooks ~
I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
~By Paul Hawken ~
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
~By Manuel Puig ~
Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
~By Ralph W. Sockman ~
In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time.
~By Tim Meadows ~
If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.
~By Jana Novotna ~
What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.
~By Rainn Wilson ~
THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government.
~By Charles Inglis ~
Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.
~By William Petersen ~
Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.
~By Martin Bashir ~
I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories.
~By Rose Tremain ~
I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
~By Harry Belafonte ~
Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.
~By Brian McKnight ~
It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step.
~By Harry Mathews ~
But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.
~By Katie Couric ~
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
Technique is of less interest than character and story.
~By William Friedkin ~
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.
~By Johannes Rau ~
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
~By G. M. Trevelyan ~
Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.
~By Robert Toombs ~
The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.
~By Tom Courtenay ~
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this.
~By Robert Asprin ~
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