Interest Quotes - Page 14

• I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

  Renee O'Connor

  Theatre, Actors, Tvs

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• Girl Scouts offered a wonderful group of girls where common concerns and interests could come together. We could learn, be challenged, and support one another. It was a very positive aspect of my life and played an important role in shaping who I am today.

  Judy Woodruff

  Girl, Who I Am, Support

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• The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving Up, Goal, World

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.49, New World Library

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• It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry

  Alan Ladd

  Kids, Funny Things, Hungry

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• How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, War, Enemy

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• I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

  Bas Rutten

  Winning, Bye, Want

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• There's a good old boys' network out there that's hard to penetrate and it's not always in the best interest of the party or for conservative principles.

  Sarah Steelman

  Party, Boys, Work Out

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• Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.

  Henry Spira

  Suffering, Systematic, Intense

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• I will be as callous and
  uncaring as you can imagine, I have no interest in paying for your health
  care. I`d hate to see you get cancer, but that`s your problem, not mine.

  Steve Lonegan

  Hate, Cancer, Care

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• Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I have as much interest in my people as any anthropologist, and I have studied our culture and lore. My aim is to reassemble the pieces of a once proud culture, and to show the dignity and bravery of my people.

  Norval Morrisseau

  Artist, People, Bravery

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• The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches, from simple description and heartfelt expression to classical allusion and evocative wordplay. Succeeding generations rediscover and renew the form so that it retains its vitality.

  Harryette Mullen

  Simple, Expression, Heartfelt

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• For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm far more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics. It's that interest and exploration that make running fun for me. It's easy to become outcome-focused; for me the unfoldment of self is what is meaningful in running and outlasts any medals.

  Lorraine Moller

  Meaningful, Running, Art

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• It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.

  Roy DeCarava

  Perception, Subjects

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• Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated.

  James Tooley

  Injustice, Currents, Policy

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• I was a high school student like Picasso. I was a little eccentric, but I had high ideals. I wanted to get along well with girl, but when I met them face-to-face, I acted cold toward them. I was always in the art room drawing, I wanted to attract someone's interest. I thought that if I got good at drawing I might be able to establish a connection with the world.

  Usamaru Furuya

  Girl, Art, School

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• I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

  Paul Merton

  Comedy, Contemporary

  "Paul Merton: 'Am I allowed to call myself working-class now?'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2011.

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• This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great ‘world house’ in which we have to live together– black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu– a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Black And White, Ideas, House

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.17, Beacon Press

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• I'm oftentimes asked, What difference does it make to America if people are dying of malaria in a place like Ghana? It means a lot. It means a lot morally, it means a lot from a -- it's in our national interest.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Differences, America

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• I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

  Shimon Peres

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

  Ehud Olmert

  Thinking, Israel, Violent

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• There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Two, People

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• You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.

  Wallace Stegner

  Attention, Pay, Emotion

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

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• Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Leica, Great Photography

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• Everybody says that they're against the special interests. I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to.

  John McCain

  Giving, Special, Special Interests

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• It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

  Barbara Jordan

  Responsibility, Immigration, Democratic

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