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Interest Quotes
"One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void."
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"IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle."
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"I think Veblen had an interest in logic."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their 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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"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."
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"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."
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"The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee."
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"I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data."
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"I have no interest in writing, directing or producing."
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"We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free."
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"But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested."
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"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."
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"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."
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"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."
32
"I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters."
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"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."
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"The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest."
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"I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me."
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"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."
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"I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy."
31
"Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest."
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"Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly."
30
"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."
30
"Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you."
30
"For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before."
30
"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."
29
"I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China."
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"I think Elaine would go out with anyone if they showed interest in her. She's nuts. The woman's nuts."
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"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."
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"You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real."
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"I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about."
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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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"A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials."
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"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."
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"I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director."
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