Interest Quotes - Page 38

• Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest in everything. The editing consequently refines the choices and defines taste.

  Norma Kamali

  Likes And Dislikes, Editing, Choices

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• I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.

  William Weld

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Real, Mean, Kids

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• It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Lonely, Self, People

  "Awakenings".

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• In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

  George H. Mead

  Self, Wartime, Primal

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• Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

  George Takei

  Coming Back, Users

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• I have an interest in making first-person games.

  Fumito Ueda

  Games, Firsts, Persons

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• We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the slightest provocation. We should get rid of Cold War thinking and broaden the converging points of our common interests, notwithstanding the differences in social systems and ideologies.

  Wu Bangguo

  War, Thinking, Differences

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• This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness.

  Maria Popova

  Art, Integrity, Self

  "What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. June 22, 2012.

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• America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, Mean, Blood

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour longer each day than the preceding one: the day after he had thus reached a total of something over twenty-three hours he slept up to the limit of twenty-four hours, and then died in his sleep.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Death, Sleep, Science

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• I think my interest gets sparked when I recognize a memory. That is when I take a picture.

  Alex Majoli

  Memories, Thinking

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• Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It becomes so only when preceeded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In this limited context then, all clothes become somewhat immoral, if we define immorality as inciting sexual interest. Habitual nakedness may indeed be capable of elevating man to a higher mental plane

  Lucy Irvine

  Men, Clothes, Erotic

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• After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analytic fantasy. Something monomaniacal. Things playing a more important part than people; love giving away to deductions and other forms of ideas, style, subject and interest. The basis of the novel transferred from the heart to the head, from the passion to the idea, from the drama to the denouement.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Drama, Reading, Passion

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• What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.

  Newton N. Minow

  Mean, Public Interest, Disagree

  Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC

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• Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.

  Steven Johnson

  Ideas, People, Viewpoints

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• There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in Washington.

  Leo Hindery

  Mcdonalds, Lobbying, Lows

  "Former CEO: There Is No One Representing Low-Wage Workers". HuffPost Live Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2014.

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• We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

  John M. Ford

  Debt, Pay, Borrowed Time

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• To a traveler paying his first visit, [San Francisco] has the interest of a new planet.  It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world.

  Fitz Hugh Ludlow

  Law, San Francisco, Bay Area

  Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1870). “The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle”, p.409, New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press

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• Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.

  Edwin A. Abbott

  Numbers, Greater, Hard

  Edwin A. Abbott, William F. Lindgren, Thomas F. Banchoff (2010). “Flatland: An Edition with Notes and Commentary”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

  Fredric Jameson

  Thinking, Aggravation, Want

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of [from audience: "soap," in reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Country, Laughter, Book

  Chester A. Arthur's remarks concerned the presidential election of 1880, as quoted in "The New York Times", February 12, 1881.

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• He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Independent, Men, Jail

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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• There are still hungry people in Ethiopia, but they are hungry because they
  have no money, no longer because there is no food to buy... we strongly
  resent the abuse of our poverty to sway the interests of the European
  public.

  Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

  Gmos, People, Abuse

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• Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

  Charles Mingus

  Als, Taste, Jazz

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