Interest Quotes - Page 11

• I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

  Celine Buckens

  War, Book, Two

  "Celine Buckens’ Horse Sense". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.

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• At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

  Carol P. Christ

  Firsts, Ancient, Goddess

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• I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

  Shimon Peres

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

  Ehud Olmert

  Thinking, Israel, Violent

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• Iraq should commit itself to implement the U.N. resolutions, and the Iraqi leadership should put the interests of its people into consideration.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Iraq, People, Resolution

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• There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Two, People

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• You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.

  Wallace Stegner

  Attention, Pay, Emotion

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

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• You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Looks, Gestures, Persons

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.10, Heron Dance Press

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• Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Leica, Great Photography

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• Everybody says that they're against the special interests. I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to.

  John McCain

  Giving, Special, Special Interests

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• My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest.

  Jeff Koons

  Inspired, Process, Following

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• It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

  Barbara Jordan

  Responsibility, Immigration, Democratic

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• Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Heart, Devil, Littles

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• Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Father, Party, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “Selections from Carlyle”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

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• Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

  C. Wright Mills

  Government, Issues, Political

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.242, Oxford University Press

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• We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment

  Elliot Morley

  Future, Vision, Generations

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• Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Flower, World

  Christoph Heinrich, Claude Monet (1994). “Monet”, Taschen

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• What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Landscape, Figures

  "Matisse on Art".

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• It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Pain, Joy

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Inspirational, Basketball, School

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• The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

  John Thorn

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

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• I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

  Steven Chu

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.

  Mike Royko

  Sports, Baseball, Female

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• Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

  Walter Bagehot

  Business, Men, Mind

  Walter Bagehot (1867). “The English Constitution”, p.149

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• Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Birthday, Children, Turning 50

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