Interesting Things Quotes - Page 14

• So much of what we know, and what we think we know, about the land has first passed through someone's lens. The interesting thing is to make use of this history, not merely to be absorbed into it. For me, landscape photographs begin as the artifacts of personal moments. They get interesting when they become cultural commentary.

  Mark Klett

  Thinking, Land, Interesting

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• The interesting thing for me about the debate about same-sex marriage ... is that it's one of those issues where it has no impact on anyone apart from the people that it impacts upon. So I find it quite bewildering that it's - that it's so complicated for people.

  Cate Blanchett

  Sex, Impact, Issues

  "Cate Blanchett talks to 7.30 about her new movie and marriage equality". "The 7.30 Report" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. December 18, 2015.

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• Working with the computer gives rise to many opportunities to transcend asocial behavior, because it produces exciting and visually interesting things to share, whether it's by creating video games, computer art or sharing exciting Web sites.

  Seymour Papert

  Art, Opportunity, Games

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a series of essays called "The Iron Law of Oligarchy" and in these essays he discusses how no matter what sorts of freedoms are advertised or put into a society structure, that all societies, all form of governments - whether they be a Roman republic, whether they be a democracy, whether they be a Russian communist system, whatever, a tribe... a tribal council - all of the continuously, throughout the ages, have all converted back into an oligarchy.

  Immortal Technique

  Writing, Government, Law

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Sitting around home I mostly play acoustic. I've got seven or eight guitars of various sorts, including a baritone. Sometimes at home, because a guitar is just lying around, that's the guitar I pick up rather than actually choosing something. I try to plan ahead for my laziness by leaving interesting things scattered about. If I leave a baritone guitar lying around, that's the one I'll pick up, and I'll start writing baritoney things.

  Richard Thompson

  Lying, Home, Writing

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• All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It's in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it's no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things.

  Scott Berkun

  Morning, Motivation, Taken

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• You find out so many interesting things when you're not on drugs.

  Boy George

  Interesting, Drug

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• A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Interesting, Stories

  'Night and Day' (1978) act 1

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• I think it's an interesting thing to have to produce an album that you'll want to listen to for 50 minutes.

  Girl Talk

  Thinking, Interesting, Albums

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 6, 2008.

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• I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.

  Robert Polidori

  Interesting, Looks, Archaeology

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• I hope being gay isn't the most interesting thing about me.

  Jason Wu

  Gay, Interesting, Being Gay

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• The cameras were a little twitchy, and you'd get less footage and less set-ups every day. The interesting thing about it was that you just composed images in a completely different way because we had big 3D monitors on set, and you'd wear the glasses and see the image in 3D.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Glasses, Interesting, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible.

  Robert Heinecken

  Keys, Interesting, Feelings

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• The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you. You know what I mean? I’ve always liked that phrase “He was visited by grief,” because that’s really what it is. Grief is its own thing. It’s not like it’s in me and I’m going to deal with it. It’s a thing, and you have to be okay with its presence. If you try to ignore it, it will be like a wolf at your door.

  Stephen Colbert

  Grief, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. October 16, 2012.

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• The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled

  Ric Charlesworth

  Funny, Change, Sports

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• I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president.

  George W. Bush

  Interesting, Dumb, President

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• It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me.

  Fanny Crosby

  Beautiful, Blessed, Hymns

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• The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

  Meryl Streep

  Mom, Mother, Parenting

  "Elastigirl: SuperMom Survives Summer" by Lisa Pullen Kent, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2016.

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• The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Interesting, Three

  Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by M.B.A.’s. But I never went into business to make money. I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn’t been done before.

  Amar Bose

  Running, Interesting, Done

  "Amar G. Bose, Acoustic Engineer and Inventor, Dies at 83" by Glenn Rifkin, www.nytimes.com. July 12, 2013.

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• The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world.

  Dale Carnegie

  Dull Life, Interesting, World

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• There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.

  Jon Ronson

  Interesting, Personality, Anxiety

  Jon Ronson (2011). “The Psychopath Test”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Perseverance, Jobs

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.70, Penguin

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• Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

  Beck

  Interesting, Way, Anything Goes

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• One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

  Thom Yorke

  Music, Art, People

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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