In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.
~By Norman MacCaig ~
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
~By Naomi Watts ~
For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
~By David Cassidy ~
It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
~By Burl Ives ~
Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in.
~By Phil Lesh ~
Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood.
~By Dick Morris ~
For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.
~By Amir Butler ~
It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.
~By Ann Beattie ~
I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.
~By Dorothy Hamill ~
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
~By Shimon Peres ~
Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.
~By Sue Kelly ~
I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now.
~By David Ginola ~
One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?
~By Bob Schieffer ~
I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.
~By David Lloyd ~
For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.
~By Ian McDiarmid ~
Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.
~By Jim Evans ~
I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
~By Meryl Streep ~
If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.
~By Herbert Prochnow ~
Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.
~By Roger Wicker ~
People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.
~By Robert Mitchum ~
Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.
~By Mary Tyler Moore ~
Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.
~By Jim Hightower ~
You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
~By Arthur Rock ~
I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
~By Bill Gates ~
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.
~By Lucian Freud ~
Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.
~By Fredric Jameson ~
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.
~By Joseph Butler ~
I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.
~By Kate Moss ~
I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
~By Ben Nicholson ~
There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.
~By Tim Rice ~
But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.
~By Neve Campbell ~
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
~By Breyten Breytenbach ~
Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they're interested in learning something.
~By David James Elliott ~
Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.
~By Chuck Hagel ~
My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.
~By Brian Lamb ~
Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
~By Sarah Palin ~
The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.
~By Bob Saget ~
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 ~
The most interesting guy I've ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the early 1970s, and the King and I played five holes. I've never been that nervous in my life.
~By Lee Trevino ~
I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great.
~By Todd English ~
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
~By Barbara Walters ~
I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.
~By Bob Paisley ~
Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
~By Georg Baselitz ~
They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.
~By John Hume ~
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
~By Carl Orff ~
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
~By Allen Tate ~
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
~By Peter L. Berger ~
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
~By Bill Gates ~
What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.
~By Harry A. Blackmun ~
A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.
~By Bruce Dickinson ~
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.
~By Paul Simon ~
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
~By Nathalie Sarraute ~
There's no point in working if I'm not involved and interested.
~By Gloria Stuart ~
America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
~By Bashar al-Assad ~
There's a lot of interest there in the missions that I fly on and the ones my brother's involved with.
~By Mark Kelly ~
I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.
~By John Henry Carver ~
I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.
~By Pete Rozelle ~
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.
~By Gene Tunney ~
I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.
~By Allyson Schwartz ~
I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.
~By Jon Secada ~
I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.
~By Stephen Rea ~
I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
~By Ikue Mori ~
Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.
~By Hilary Rosen ~
Reality doesn't interest me.
~By Leni Riefenstahl ~
I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.
~By Joseph Jarman ~
I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.
~By Sydney Brenner ~
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
~By Vivienne Westwood ~
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.
~By Juan Cole ~
I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.
~By John Dyer ~
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
~By Daniel Berrigan ~
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
~By C. Wright Mills ~
I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.
~By Sepp Blatter ~
Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
~By Augusten Burroughs ~
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different. And that's what too many of the copywriters in the U.S. today don't yet understand.
~By Rosser Reeves ~
The local communities, through their leaders, were able to build a communications network that allowed my work here to reflect the needs and interests of the people within the 9th Congressional District. It's been an honor to do that and we did so successfully.
~By Nick Lampson ~
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
~By Steve Jobs ~
Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.
~By Dennis Ross ~
Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
~By Ralph Bakshi ~
I don't really trust men who claim they are not interested in porn.
~By Moby ~
After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~
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