Not Interested Quotes - Page 10

• People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Jobs, Mean, Pride

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• I am not interested in being vice president of the United States. I've let the candidate know. If the candidate asks me to be vice president, the answer is I got to say yes. But he's not going to ask me.

  Brian Williams

  President, Vices, United States

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• I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.

  Tim Gunn

  Teaching, Mean, Thinking

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• I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.

  Adam Carolla

  Hollywood, Connections, Care

  "Adam Carolla Hates Hollywood" by Steven Karras, www.web2carz.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

  Adam Carolla

  Hurt, Nice, People

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• I don't look back, no. Maybe when I'm older; people say, 'What's your favorite film?' I say, 'My next one.' I'm not interested in sitting around; I just don't, never have.

  Denzel Washington

  People, Looks, Sitting

  "Denzel Washington Has Deja Vu". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. November 20, 2006.

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• The people [in the USA] are not very well informed. They certainly don`t know history. They certainly are not interested in foreign affairs very much, unless it comes right to their doorstep. They all learn history through wars. They learn geography through wars.

  Bill Maher

  War, Usa, People

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• The thing that I see disappearing is just the love of old movies among kids. Everything's accessible, so you can get it, but when everything's accessible, that means you have to access it. And if you're not interested, you don't.

  Rob Zombie

  Mean, Kids, Old Movie

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you're not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback.

  Brené Brown

  Arena, Ass, Feedback

  Brené Brown (2015). “Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.4, Spiegel & Grau

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• Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Decision, Able, Politician

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• I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Positivity, Pursuit Of Happiness, Thinking

  "Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. September, 1997.

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• I'm not interested in making what's easy. I'm interested in making what's beautiful.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Beautiful, Easy

  Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.47, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• God is not interested in you doing this for Him, He is interested in doing things THROUGH you.

  Eric Ludy

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• I couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Book, Mean, Literature

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

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• I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Intellectual, Labels, May

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Ideas, Important

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• My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.

  Lisa Langseth

  Purpose, Answers, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Ultimately, I know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I'm trying to be a construction worker. I'm trying to make things. If people are not interested in that, fine. I just don't give a damn.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Giving, Trying

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• I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

  Martin Amis

  Principles, Fiction, Pleasure

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Well, I do write on political and social issues and the idea that one shouldn't - or the idea that we should censor ourselves - doesn't really work for me because it would be doing the government's job for them. And I'm not interested in doing that. I think what we need very much in Pakistan is to be able to discuss the corruption and the violence that really colours most of our life here.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• When your characters are not white hats or black hats but something in between, you do have to be very careful about your details. So, that takes a while. I'm not interested in white hats and black hats. I don't think that's how people are in real life.

  Victor Levin

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The camera course was a bit crap. But when I was in drama school, I wasn't interested. I wanted to be a stage actress. I was not interested in learning camera craft. But then you throw yourself in the deep end when you do get a job in front of the camera because you have absolutely no idea what you're doing, and it is a skill.

  Phoebe Fox

  Jobs, Drama, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're working in the business and you are genuinely trying to do what's right for consumers, and you're trying to genuinely do what's right for suppliers, but the word doesn't get out, the word doesn't get heard because frankly the media is not interested because it hasn't got a conflict attached to it.

  Ian McLeod

  Media, Trying, Conflict

  "The Observer Effect" with Ellen Fanning, www.sbs.com.au. September 29, 2013.

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• If you're not interested in your work, you're not doing it right.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Ifs

  Source: www.ew.com

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• I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

  David Shields

  Allies, Narrative, Honest

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.115, Vintage

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