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"So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest."
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"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
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"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."
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"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."
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"They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me."
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"I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director."
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"So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest."
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"I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so."
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"Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer."
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"Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others."
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"If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free."
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"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
Land
"There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in."
Opportunity
"You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year."
Money
"When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset."
Money
"Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all."
Creativity
"A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it."
Money
"So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest."
Interest
"So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff."
Money
"Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood."
Money
"I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, "Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?" "Well, we have no mechanism to do it," I was told."
Control
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