Not Interested Quotes - Page 26

• The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.

  George Orwell

  Party, Care, Tyranny

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.344, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.

  R. C. Sproul

  God, Christian, Term

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• I was not interested in doing the plot of Oedipus in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like if they hadn't been in that situation?... One could look at Oedipus, or at my character Augustus, as a cynical schemer who did everything because he was hungry for power. But that's just too easy. I'm more interested in how humans can embody conflicting goals and emotions.

  Rita Dove

  Character, Oedipus, People

  "The darker face of the earth". American Theatre, November 1, 1996.

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• Create your own individual style. I'm not interested in the girl who walks into my office in a HEAD-to-TOE LABEL look that's straight off the runway. I'm interested in a Girl who puts herself together in an ORIGINAL INDEPENDENT Way

  Anna Wintour

  Girl, Independent, Office

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• Keith Moon is not interested in Jazz and won't ever be a Jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.

  Pete Townshend

  Moon, Keith, Jazz

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com. 1966.

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• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, Want, Singers

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• No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.

  Alan Turing

  Powerful, Brain, Telephones

  Quoted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence (1983)

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• If the government doesn't fund education, which they often don't, students are going to stay home and not go to school. It affects them directly. But I'm really not interested in writing explicitly about that. I'm really interested in human beings, and in love, and in family. Somehow, politics comes in.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  School, Home, Writing

  "Half of a Yellow Sun". Interview with Rina Palta, www.motherjones.com. October 24, 2006.

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• The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation.

  Walter Lippmann

  Reading, Results, Investigation

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• He looked down at his empty glass. "One of the other ways in which I am different from my father," he said. "I am not interested in marrying where I do not love." I spoke in a jesting voice. "And of all the women in the eight provinces, you have not been able to find one you could love?" Now he looked at me again, and his face was completely serious. "That's the problem," he said. "There is one.

  Sharon Shinn

  Father, Glasses, Eight

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• I'm not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now. What interests me is what we are now and what we will be.

  Ahmed Toufiq

  Interest

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• I’m just not interested.” “Do you have ovaries?” Jacob asked. I shot him a look. “Yes.” … “Then how are you not interested.

  J. Lynn

  Ovaries, Looks, Shots

  J. Lynn (2013). “Wait for You”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.

  Toni Morrison

  Past, Next Day, Brain

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, p.73, Random House

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• Drunk nerds. Not my thing.” “You like nerds.” “Not nerds who join fraternities,” Cath said. “That’s a whole subclass of nerds that I’m not interested in.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Drunk, Nerd, Fraternity

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.323, St. Martin's Griffin

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• "What about him?" she’d say, finding an attractive guy to point out while they were standing in the lunch line. "Do you want to kiss him?" "I don’t want to kiss a stranger," Cath would answer. "I’m not interested in lips out of context."

  Rainbow Rowell

  Kissing, Lunch, Guy

  "Fangirl". Book by Rainbow Rowell, September 10, 2013.

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• If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.

  Tanya Tucker

  Cowboy, Titans, Ifs

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• I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Marijuana, People, Perception

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• The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not interested-it's not where I live. I live inside the story.

  Barry Lopez

  Writing, Looks, Stories

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• We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

  Beaumont Newhall

  Photography, Usual, Unusual

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• I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivation, Inspiration, Past

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• I'm not interested in being Donald Trump or anybody else's vice president, that's not what I'm aiming at.

  Marco Rubio

  President, Vices, Trump

  "Why Marco Rubio Isn't 'Looking To Be Anyone's Vice President'". Interview with Chuck Todd, www.newsweek.com. March 10, 2016.

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• When I got the script for Thelma & Louise, when I met with the director, Ridley Scott, I said, "I don't want to do a revenge film. I'm not interested in doing that moment in the script after they shoot the truck, where it says they jump up and down and they're real happy about it".

  Susan Sarandon

  Revenge, Real, Directors

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.

  James Ellroy

  Sports, Hate, Thinking

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview by John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.

  George W. Bush

  Ideas, People, Trying

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence the 'Fascination' in the title of the essay, the fascination of art and creativity, stands in opposition to what is called 'Liberation'.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Art, Creativity, Character

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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