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Interest Quotes


"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."


"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."


"Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you."


"Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear."


"My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout."


"The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts."


"I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me."


"A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials."


"The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest."



"The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest."


"I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest."


"They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies."


"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."


"We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest."


"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."


"When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested."


"We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us."



"Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations."


"The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest."


"In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone."


"I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me."


"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."


"I have no interest in writing, directing or producing."


"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."


"It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team."


"We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free."


"But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before."


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


"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."


"With the increased cost of gasoline, it doesn't appear that we're going to see a slowing of interest in mass transit. I think it's going to continue to grow."


"The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee."


"I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director."


"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."


"I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly."


"Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live."


"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."



"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."


"I think Veblen had an interest in logic."
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