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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhism, Interesting, Greed

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• An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it

  Matthew Barney

  Art, New York, Interesting

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• Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant

  Brian De Palma

  Interesting, France, Brilliant

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.184, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with other intelligences: we could see what role, if any, religion plays in their development. I think that religion may be some random by-product of mammalian reproduction. If that's true, would non-mammalian aliens have a religion?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Thinking, Play, Evil

  "God, science, and delusion". "Free Inquiry" Interview with Matt Cherry, March 22, 1999.

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• The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives.

  Cornel West

  Wings, Interesting, Upset

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• The most interesting things in life happen just on the other side of your comfort zone.

  Michael Hyatt

  Life, Motivational, Interesting

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• Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

  Saul Bass

  Interesting, Design, Creative

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• The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Gun, Differences, Interesting

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.20, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I think the fact that I am gay is about the 47th most interesting thing about me.

  Sue Perkins

  Gay, Thinking, Interesting

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• And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

  Lisa See

  Feet, Interesting, Age

  "Lisa See: secret women's writing". "The Book Show" with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. March 2, 2006.

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• Interesting things happen in the dark . . . sometimes.

  L. J. Smith

  Dark, Interesting, Sometimes

  L J Smith (2011). “Volume 1: The Awakening & The Struggle: Books 1 & 2”, p.93, Hachette UK

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