Personal Interest Quotes

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  We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Passion, Ambition, Goal

  "Sandberg: Speak up, believe in yourself, take risks" by Sheryl Sandberg, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2013.

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• You're not patriotic just because you back whoever's in power today or their policies. You're patriotic when you work to improve the lives of the people of your country, your community and your family. Sometimes that means making hard choices, choices that go against your personal interest.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Patriotic, Mean

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror

  Anish Kapoor

  Darkness, Sublime, Interest

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• A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal-interest.

  Khem Veasna

  Men, Brave, Dare

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• We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.

  John Angell James

  Church, Individual, Interest

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 226, 1895.

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• One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Issues, Ethics

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• Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Hard Work, Passion

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• I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

  Janos Kadar

  Selfish, Party, Mean

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• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  Patricia Ireland

  Florida, Issues, African American

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• There are three things an athlete must do. You must be in physical condition ... You must execute properly and quickly the fundamentals ... and you must have eagerness to sacrifice personal interests or glory for the welfare of the team.

  John Wooden

  Team, Athlete, Sacrifice

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• The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

  Albert Einstein

  Sacrifice, Law, Important

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.257, Princeton University Press

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• Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

  Marquis de Sade

  Law, Three, Conflict

  "Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings". Book by Marquis de Sade, December 1, 2007.

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• God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.

  Mother Angelica

  Order, Interest, Stills

  "Mother Angelica Live", www.imdb.com. (1983-).

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• I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.

  Ashley Judd

  Dream, Thinking, Different

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• I have no personal interest or gain from this , I am just an actor

  Sanaya Irani

  Actors, Gains, Interest

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• Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be concerned with the social consequences and not with their personal interests.

  George Soros

  People, Doe, Social

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• I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of people who have no personal interest in us, in the vain hope of finding that perhaps they may have just a little after all.

  Barbara Pym

  People, Trying, May

  Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.162, Penguin

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• interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Mean, Intense, Ends

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth Prigozy (2008). “The Great Gatsby”, p.130, Oxford University Press

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• Moments later a huge male with a cropped mohawk came out. Rehvenge was dressed in a perfectly tailored black suit and had a black cane in his right hand. As he came slowly over to the Brotherhood's table, his patrons parted before him, partly out of respect for his size, partly out of fear from his reputation. Everyone knew who he was and what he was capable of: Rehv was the kind of drug lord who took a personal interest in his livelihood. You crossed him and you turned up diced like something off the Food Channel.

  J.R. Ward

  Hands, Drug, Black

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.69, Penguin

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• The issues which mattered to me as an activist, mainly things like prison reform and AIDS, have less of a chance of getting covered on my show than things I don't have a personal interest in. It's because I don't trust my antenna about being a good storyteller on those subjects, because I know a lot and therefore lose touch with what the average person might find interesting about them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Average, Issues, Interesting

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

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• America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, America

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.27, Penguin

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• I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot predict: the changing light, weather, personal mood, and often just plain luck. Of course, you must have a starting point, so I establish some fixed points then improvise as I go. In many cases the locations seem to choose me.

  Josef Hoflehner

  Photography, Light, Weather

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• Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Love, Tolerance, Apathy

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

  Aristophanes

  Salary, Care, Vote

  Aristophanes (2015). “The wasps - The birds - The frogs - The Thesmophoriazusae - The Ecclesiazusae”, p.276, Aristophanes

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