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

  Walt Disney

  Moving Forward, Interesting, Design

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

  Will Durant

  Knowing, Interesting, Suffering

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• The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

  Jaron Lanier

  Interesting, Imperfect, Advertising

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• Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

  Steve Lacy

  Play, Interesting, Risk

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• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mean, Cities In The World, Talking

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks: Part 1 of 3". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

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• I'm not really a partier, in general. I've definitely learned that that's probably the least interesting thing you can do with your time.

  Leighton Meester

  Interesting, Can Do

  "Outtakes from Leighton Meester's February Cover Shoot". Slide 1, www.seventeen.com. January 03, 2011.

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• One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.

  Lewis Black

  Interesting, Comedy, Release

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• The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.

  Christian Bale

  Movie, Interesting, Actors

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you.

  Stephen Colbert

  Grief, Thinking, Interesting

  "Stephen Colbert: The Playboy Interview". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.

  Phil Collins

  Stars, Interesting, Trying

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• One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!

  Bernadette Devlin

  Jesus, Hate, Names

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• You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Interesting, Film

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