Interesting Things Quotes

• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Travel, Adventure, Memorable

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage

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• The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Interesting, Decision

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

  Walt Disney

  Moving Forward, Interesting, Design

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Travel, Adventure, Passive Voice

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  The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Motivational, People

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• People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

  Zadie Smith

  People, Interesting, Political

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• The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

  Mark Leyner

  Interesting, Mind

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• The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

  Jamie Foxx

  Dark, Interesting, Acting

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• The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Play, Interesting, Way

  Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• I'm just trying to be truthful and collaborate with people who have interesting things to say.

  Judd Apatow

  People, Interesting, Trying

  "Judd Apatow: ‘Love’ was made for the Netflix binge, and ‘Girls’ should be weekly". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Oddities, Interesting

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• The interesting thing is that there are so few important decisions. You don't have to go in the "right" direction. You don't have to enter the "right" business. What you have to do is have made a decision as to what you're going to do and then you just have to figure out how to succeed at it.

  Ken Oshman

  Business, Justice, Interesting

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• I try to be the best husband and father I possibly can. And it doesn't mean I get to spend as much time with my family as I'd like, but I do the best I can. Even if you do get to be an astronaut and get to go and do a lot of interesting things, at some point that will come to an end. If in the process you short change your family or compromise your values along the way, when you get through on the other side, it won't really be worth it. At least not to me.

  Rick Husband

  Husband, Father, Mean

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• The models have always been the least interesting thing about fashion.

  Cindy Sherman

  Fashion, Interesting, Models

  "The Real Cindy Sherman" by Cathy Horyn, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 11, 2012.

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• One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Interesting, Skateboarding, Graffiti

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think if you had different artists approaching the material in different styles, that's very different. I think it's an interesting thing to discover, what's present in the work even when you're shifting the styles. I've just found it a much stronger way to work.

  Daniel Clowes

  Artist, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

  Charles Jencks

  People, Interesting, Most Interesting

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• Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Real, Book, Character

  Maxine Cheshire, John Greenya (1979). “Maxine Cheshire, reporter”, Dell Publishing Company

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• I'm really into quantum physics. Some of my friends are into it, some of them aren't, so I'm trying to get them excited about discovering all these interesting things about thoughts and the power of thoughts. It gives me chills thinking about it. It's fun.

  Carmen Electra

  Fun, Thinking, Giving

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• I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  People, Interesting, Novel

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• Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same.

  Neal Stephenson

  Interesting, Transition, Borders

  Neal Stephenson (1993). “Snow Crash”, Spectra

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• I do know people and there are people in my family who have had Alzheimer's and dementia, and I appreciate the importance of communication and having contact with them. Communicating is an interesting thing with a condition like that. Sometimes it's difficult to communicate. If the brain becomes atrophied or certain channels of the brain become atrophied, then contact is what becomes really important.

  Elliott Gould

  Communication, Alzheimer's, People

  "Elliott Gould on throwing his lunch at Robert Altman and Saturday Night Live's Five-Timers Club". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. July 26, 2013.

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• I've always made a point of playing parts where weight has nothing to do with it, and not just weight but looks. It's about being funny and being interesting, and I think there are a lot more interesting things to play than being overweight.

  Sarah Baker

  Thinking, Play, Interesting

  "Sarah Baker on Playing the Funny, Confident "Fat Girl" on Louie". Interview with Willa Paskin, www.slate.com. May 12, 2014.

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