"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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"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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"When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke."

Brian P. Cleary, American Author

Interest, Thinking, Word

"It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go."

Robert Iger, American Businessman

Interest, Old, Rules

"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Interest, Vices

"Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire."

Leland Stanford, American Educator

Interest, Labor, Promises, Thoughtful

"I like zombies, Stephen King also like them.Zombies are pretty interesting creatures,..."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Interest, Truth, Happiness, Power

"I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Interest, Quiet

"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Interest, Money, Work, Time

"I think Elaine would go out with anyone if they showed interest in her. She's nuts. The woman's nuts."

Julia Louis Dreyfus, American Actress

Interest, Woman

"I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road."

Earl Scruggs, American Musician

Interest, Road, Want

"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

Interest, Man, Romantic

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"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

"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

"You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year."

Money

"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

"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

"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

"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."

Land

"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

"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

"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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