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Interest Quotes
"I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry."
166
"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest."
66
"Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific."
60
"The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest."
58
"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."
58
"We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system."
56
"We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News."
56
"It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it."
55
"I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it."
54
"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest."
53
"Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal."
52
"And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms."
52
"If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that."
51
"I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me."
51
"We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways."
47
"I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater."
47
"I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say."
47
"We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd."
47
"I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich."
47
"I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff."
47
"I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest."
46
"When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested."
46
"Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me."
46
"Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear."
46
"What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as the program is concerned, I'm the mouthpiece of the viewers as well."
44
"I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest."
44
"The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq."
44
"The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality."
44
"Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one."
43
"When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them."
43
"It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins."
43
"There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here."
42
"When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me."
41
"We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework."
41
"We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us."
41
"Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates."
40
"I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly."
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