Not Interested Quotes - Page 27

• As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

  Jonas Salk

  Children, Sides, Humans

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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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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• As for Instagram, I follow about 100 people, but I am not interested in what a designer is doing or what a friend of a friend is doing. I upload my photos on Instagram.

  Franca Sozzani

  People, Instagram, Designer

  Source: wwd.com

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• We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

  Queen Victoria

  Leadership, Inspirational Life, Winning

  To A. J. Balfour, in 'Black Week', December 1899

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• I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.

  Alber Elbaz

  Clothes, Perfection

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• Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Book, Character

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• I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

  Mark Rothko

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

  Edward Albee

  Running, Cities, Beckett

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• The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Offended You, Wish

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• It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.

  Alfred Adler

  Spring, Men, Fellow Man

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• I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.

  Richard Scarry

  Book, Scotch, Creating

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• I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.

  Helene Hanff

  Book, Home, Despair

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• A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Memories, Mind

  Jack Kerouac (2006). “Book of Sketches”, p.65, Penguin

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• I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we've used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Lying, Responsibility

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• Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.

  Andy Warhol

  Timing, Should, Wrong Time

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Photographer, Ifs

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• Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

  George Orwell

  Change, Party, Answers

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm not interested in how people move; I'm interested in what makes them move.

  Pina Bausch

  Moving, People

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• The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

  Aldous Huxley

  Majority, Logic, Reason

  Aldous Huxley (1932). “Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley”

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• I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Veins, Hitting, Mainstream

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

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• God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Spiritual Life, Our Lives

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• I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

  Paloma Faith

  People

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