Not Interested Quotes - Page 19

• The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

  Barack Obama

  War, Long, Battle

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

  Margaret Atwood

  Character, Cutting, Views

  Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1997.

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• There's great poetry in the Old Testament and the New Testament. And I'm not interested in trying to prove whether this paragraph is as it was or as it should have been or should not be. My pursuit is to find the truth for me in those stories and make them apropos. The important thing is that people wrote them. These were inspirational stories, and you got to see them that way. If you don't, you'll get in trouble. So I'm not going to spend a lot of time trying to find out whether or not Mary was a virgin. What do I care about Mary being a virgin?

  Cecil Williams

  People, Trying, Important

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I'm not interested in being an intellectual or in being traditional, conventional. I'm not interested in having great wisdom. I'm not interested in those facets of the evangelical movement. I don't have to get stuff from them. I got my own stuff. If it hits you, okay. That's why I've got so many different races, classes, and such a mixture of theologies and philosophies. I've got agnostics, atheists, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims the whole spectrum.

  Cecil Williams

  Christian, Atheist, Buddhist

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I am wary of repeating myself too much. In this age of Netflix, as a Netflix show, if you want to go back and watch a season 1 episode, you can do that easily. I'm not interested in repeating the same story beats over and over and over again. But part of the truth of BoJack story is about how much he repeats himself and these patterns that are difficult to get out of. I'm trying not to be evasive about that. I'm not using that as an excuse. I think that's convenient to fall back on as a TV writer: "Oh, it's a show about stagnation."

  Raphael Bob-Waksberg

  Fall, Thinking, Age

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

  Bernard Baruch

  Struggle, Government, Political

  In The Times 20 Aug. 1964

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• I'm not interested in being gratuitously relatable and broadening out what I do in order to reach more people. When I'm going into specific details of the trauma, I think it's the details that connect with people. I'm accidentally relatable - I didn't mean to be, and I didn't think I would be. It feels like what I'm saying on stage is quite shameful and possibly perverted; so for other people to be laughing and go, "Oh, yes, we understand that. We are like that too," is very lovely.

  Simon Amstell

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

  Glenn Beck

  Trying, News, Stories

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• I'm not so interested in this series of ruptures, where minimalism took over pop art, and then neo-expressionism was a triumph over that. I'm not interested in rupture - I'm interested in healing, bringing things together, building bridges. Not dismissing what has come before as a kind of modernist precedent, where one thing has to be broken in order to achieve something else. I don't believe in that kind of attitude. I think we're beyond that at this stage.

  Philip Taaffe

  Art, Attitude, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Criticism, Destruction, Good Faith

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• I see the audience as the final collaborator. I think it's kind of bullshit when people say, "I'm not interested in the audience reaction." I'm like, "Then why do you do theater? You can write a book, then you don't have to see how the audience reacts." It's a living, breathing thing.

  Lynn Nottage

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I'm not interested in books that are just clever and well executed; polish doesn't impress me, and I don't care about a merely capable sentence. Life is short; I want a confrontation with high art. I want soul.

  C.E. Morgan

  Art, Clever, Book

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Giving, Drug, Wonder Woman

  "The biggest mother of them all" by John Lyttle, www.independent.co.uk. October 16, 1996.

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• I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding they are. My writers are in the thick of it and they seek the truth, rather than embody it, and sometimes they find truths that don't sit palatably or easily together. That's life. That's personality. And that's writing.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Writing, Personality, Together

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

  Noel Gallagher

  Talent, Making Money, Cursed

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• I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.

  Brian Greene

  Reading, Enjoy, Blogs

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• I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'

  Tom Hanks

  Edgy, Knows, Can Do

  "Desert island risks". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.

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• I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, Opposites, Trying

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• Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Ambition, Mean, Modesty

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• I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.

  Martin Kippenberger

  People, Trying, Consoling

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• I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Artist, Past, People

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• Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

  Courtney Love

  Cheerleading, School, Cheerleader

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

  Olivier Martinez

  Leave Me Alone, Needs, Want

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

  George Michael

  Excited, Former

  "George Michael to go on tour ccompanied by a symphony orchestra". www.mirror.co.uk. May 11, 2011.

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