Uninterested Quotes - Page 2

• I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

  Anita Roddick

  Bored, People, Bears

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

  Matthew Specktor

  Teenager, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book through, when it was completely done and in printed galleys, I was surprised by how uninterested in the passage of time and history the book seemed to be. Even though you can feel it all there, that's just not what it's focused on.

  Danielle Dutton

  Reading, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The heavens remained closed and opaque. I now realize, of course, that I had a very, very inadequate idea of God. I was expecting clouds to part, a little sort of whisper in my ear, and of course, that's not what God is. God is not another being; we are talking about something much more profound.

  Karen Armstrong

  Ideas, Clouds, Talking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• You'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it; I find it trivial and banal and boring.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Fashion, Boring, Shows

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• He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.

  Bob Colacello

  Artist, Names, Lightning

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer.

  Erik Naggum

  Games, Long, People

  Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace (Usenet article), groups.google.com. February 16, 1997.

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• I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream'" by Alex Duval Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2011.

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• The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Ignorance, Self, Order

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.275, Vintage

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• Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  People, Splendid, Ifs

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• It’s not important,” Silena insisted. “We have to find Charlie!” Another first: a child of Aphrodite uninterested in jewellery.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Important, Firsts

  Rick Riordan (2010). “Percy Jackson: The Demigod Files: The Demigod Files”, p.47, Penguin UK

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• I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language

  Stephen Fry

  Silly, Language, Distinction

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• Carstairs is alright, I suppose. If you like that sort.” “Oh?” “The taken. The uninterested.” “As opposed to… you, Gabriel?” “Well, yes.

  Cassandra Clare

  Taken, Gabriel, Wells

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• Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would think-though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one-that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Thinking, Order

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.67, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation.

  James Surowiecki

  Small Numbers, Corporations, Reason

  "Private Lies". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.

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• I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

  John Bercow

  Newspapers, Written

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• If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?

  Idries Shah

  Attitude, Trying, Why Not

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.10, Octagon Press Ltd

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• I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Baby, Dog, Children

  "New Yorker" Magazine, April 23, 2003.

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• I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Quarantine, Taste, Boundaries

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• I’ve always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I’m interested in politics in that I’m a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can’t get into the ins and outs of it.

  Ewan McGregor

  Strong, Ideas, Government

  "Ewan Mcgregor Gives Up The Ghost". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I'm completely uninterested in the origins of Stonehenge. I don't care about the real story behind it or whether it should be saved or not. What I'm interested in is this: in the Victorian era, you could go there as an early cultural tourist and you were given a chisel to chip off a bit of the stones and take it with you. That's what you did in Victorian times.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Real, Care, Stones

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in nutrition, in agriculture, in the wholesomeness of mind and spirit is as absurd as a farmer who is uninterested in health. Our fragmentation of this subject cannot be our cure, because it is our disease. The body cannot be whole alone. Persons cannot be whole alone. It is wrong to think that bodily health is compatible with spiritual confusion or cultural disorder, or with polluted air and water or impoverished soil.

  Wendell Berry

  Spiritual, Thinking, Air

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.99, Counterpoint

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• At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Moving, Men, Odds

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• I've always been terribly uninterested in criticism. And one of the reasons, I just thought recently, is that you know there are various schools of criticism that will compete, and one will supercede the other.

  Mark Helprin

  School, Criticism, Reason

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• It is difficult to predict the outcome of any Presidency, but with Donald Trump the worst-case scenarios seem particularly plausible, because he is so uninterested in the safeguards that might prevent them.

  Kelefa Sanneh

  Difficult

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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