Interest Quotes - Page 6

• Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Night, Men, Weather

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Country, Men, Law

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  War, Sacrifice, Men

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Isobel Grundy (1997). “Selected letters”, Penguin Group USA

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• The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

  Albert Einstein

  Public Opinion, Influence, Controlled

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.6, Broadway Books

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• I'll never be that trusting again, believing accountants and lawyers have my best interests at heart.

  Irene Cara

  Believe, Heart, Lawyer

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• What interests me when I'm writing is being able to crawl into a character's head and speak from his or her mouth. It's not pulling the strings on a marionette, it's not playing ventriloquist, and it's not mimicry. It's about inhabiting a character, and, at the same time, being totally unaware of what you've become.

  Nathan Englander

  Writing, Character, Mouths

  "This Week in Fiction: Nathan Englander". Interview with Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. December 5, 2011.

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• The reason for forgiving your enemies is not for their benefit but for your own benefit. Holding grudges against other people doesn’t hurt them; doesn’t even bother them much - in fact, even pleases them if they are still mad at you. It is not in your enlightened self-interest to hold grudges, regardless of whether it bothers the person you hate or not.

  Brad Blanton

  Hurt, Hate, Self

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• We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates are going to be. We don't know what our interest rates are going to be. We don't know what our energy costs are going to be. All these uncertainties are being driven by the Government's agenda. What we really need to do is get Government to step back.

  Jim Renacci

  Government, Energy, Needs

  "Battle ‘10". Interview with Mytheos Holt, www.nationalreview.com. September 1, 2010.

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• I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and otherworldly. My wish is for the narrative in the pictures to work within that circumstance. It is that sense of in-between-ness that interests me.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Twilight, Wish, Quality

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• Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.

  Neal Asher

  Men, Levels, Satisfaction

  Neal Asher (2009). “The Skinner”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light. I cannot will this kind of transcendent communication into existence. I have to be open and truly present, and if I am lucky, grace descends. My best photographs are an honest collaboration, and when the viewer also connects, I feel the circle is complete.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Lying, Communication

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• The people in the southern provinces have no interest whatsoever to see British forces leave because they're providing security, stability, structure, and relations have always been good ... really between the British forces and the local Iraqis in this area.

  Hoshyar Zebari

  People, Southern, Structure

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• People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose information. It is not sufficient that there be curiosity and interest that you want to disclose information.

  Tharman Shanmugaratnam

  People, Curiosity, Want

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• Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.

  Scott McClanahan

  Writing, Long, Skirts

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• It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Experts, World, Easy

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• I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Thinking, Knowing

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• I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Photographer, Traditional

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• Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons. And to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid.

  Harrison Ford

  Self, Political, Atrocities

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• The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Character, Greek, Theatre

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• I have certain strong interests that fill my life as well

  Loretta Swit

  Strong, Certain, Wells

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• Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.

  Guy Fieri

  Fun, Kids, Cutting

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• I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Mother, Father, Years

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• In my experience with women that I’ve dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren’t a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time.

  Tim Meadows

  Men, Wife, Care

  "“The Ladies Man”: Tim Meadows Interview". Hollywood Intreview, www.hollywood.com. October 1, 2000.

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• I don't intentionally try to find the scripts with unattractive characters, but I think that if a character is described in a script as heart-stoppingly beautiful, and there's nothing else said about her, it just doesn't hold a lot of interest for me.

  Amy Adams

  Beautiful, Heart, Character

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• I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

  Naomi Watts

  Drama, Book, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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