Interest Quotes - Page 39

• Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

  Carter Burwell

  Awakened

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• A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.

  Herman Kahn

  Healthy, Resources, Should

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.34, Lexington Books

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• My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

  Yahoo Serious

  Art, Stupid, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

  Ahmet Zappa

  School, Age, Stressful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Environment, Rich

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• No conflict, no interest.

  John Doerr

  Conflict

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• The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.

  Kim Il-sung

  Latin, Struggle, America

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• ...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples and to become fully aware of the profound truth of the following conclusion which the United Nations approved by unanimity four years ago: "Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation".

  Alfonso Garcia Robles

  Years, Nuclear Disarmament, Race

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• Neither Romelu nor myself were happy with the game he had and his reaction. He has apologised and for me that is the end of the story. I don't look back -- I look at the future. That is what interests me. Romelu trained well yesterday and looked happy. Every player wants to show himself in a World Cup but it is not going to change your life.

  Marc Wilmots

  Player, Games, Yesterday

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• Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Integrity, Heart, Self

  Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.125, South End Press

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• My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture

  Parker Stevenson

  Photography, Architecture

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• Also I have an interest in spirituality and it opens-up so many different areas of Indian life.

  Francois Gautier

  Different, Spirituality, Indian

  "Francois Gautier FAQs – 2". francoisgautier.me. September 17, 2009.

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• At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Brother, First Love

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.25, Routledge

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• But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.

  A. M. Rosenthal

  Strong, Team, Nwo

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• The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

  Leon Askin

  Mother, Theatre, Fields

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't have any interest whatsoever in getting back out there and bashing Hillary Clinton.

  Gennifer Flowers

  Clinton

  "Gennifer Flowers 'will attend' Trump v Clinton debate" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2016.

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• 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.

  Neil Abercrombie

  Common, Clash, Public Good

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• So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

  Taiye Selasi

  People, Literature, Individual

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• It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.

  Zhou Yongkang

  Two, Fundamentals, Development

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• The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is - second only to American political campaigns - the most prominent and pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time.

  Larry Laudan

  Ideas, Perspective, Political

  Larry Laudan (2012). “Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science”, p.10, University of Chicago Press

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• In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

  Aristotle

  May, Revolution, Rebellious

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• I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom

  Parker Stevenson

  Wisdom, Would Be, Interviews

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• The Government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

  Pauline Hanson

  Government, Helping, Rate

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching.

  David W. Oxtoby

  Teaching, College, Faculty Members

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• It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.

  Michael Schudson

  Advertising, Should, Firm

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.18, Routledge

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