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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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• 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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• You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Looks, Gestures, Persons

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.10, Heron Dance Press

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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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• I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That's where the film-makers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they should have stayed.

  John Hurt

  Independent, Should Have, Matter

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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• There are guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

  Lauren Bacall

  Guy, Done, Want

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• John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed with me through my life. Geography is a living, breathing subject, constantly adapting itself to change. It is dynamic and relevant. For me geography is a great adventure with a purpose.

  Michael Palin

  Teacher, School, Adventure

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• Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

  Peter Jennings

  Confused, Spirituality, Driven

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• It wasnt until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something. Well, I wasnt in there five minutes before she said, OK, honey, you have to go now. I made her so nervous she was about ready to throw up. So I really didnt have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didnt take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.

  Paula Deen

  School, Long, House

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• There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Art, Gone

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• Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself.

  George Lucas

  Past, Soul, This Generation

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• Guys are so predictable. They can't seem to separate fantasy from reality, so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys, so they don't interest me.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Reality, Race, Car

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• A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have to blame ourselves. Our backwardness is caused by an elite which for a century didn't think about the majority and subordinated itself to foreign interests.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Thinking, Long, Majority

  "Brazil rejects Bush move on climate change talks". Interview with John Vidal and Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2007.

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• I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.

  Jude Law

  Actors, Want, Honestly

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

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• There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

  Julia Stiles

  Get Better, Watches, Actors

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

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• I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.

  Ron Howard

  Past, Creative, Special

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

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• I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

  Jared Harris

  Children, Dad, Father

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• America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.

  Richard Gere

  America, People, Attention

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I don’t find my interest in animals weird or strange at all.

  Michael Jackson

  Beautiful, Animal, Doe

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• I think that could be a very compromising situation where people naturally may do things that may not be in the interest of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, People, May

  "Rick Santorum: Women In Combat Could Create ‘Compromising Situation’ Because Of ‘Emotions’". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

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• I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.

  Natasha Henstridge

  Believe, Night, Careers

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• I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.

  Alex Trebek

  Curious

  "The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World". Book by A. J. Jacobs, September 21, 2004.

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• I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

  Arsene Wenger

  Team, Thinking, Too Much

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• I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

  Jerry Hall

  Zero, Interest In Politics

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