Not Interested Quotes - Page 2

• I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.

  Michael Ian Black

  Depression, Zero, Thinking

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought. It encourages our business to be competitive in absolutely the wrong way. We're not sportsmen; we're not trying to come in first.

  John Hurt

  Nice, Thinking, Giving

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you're not interested in them so that they'll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What's he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don't want to sign up for that.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Play, Guy

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• I am really not interested in the cinema.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Cinema

  "Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot" by Agnès Poirier, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• I'm not interested in being a wife. I'm interested in being an empress.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Women, Wife, Empresses

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• I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life.

  Joe Bradley

  Culture, Force, Avoiding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I’m not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I’m interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be aware of yourself at all. That’s the way music works for me. It’s purely emotional. It goes straight to the heart. There are no explanations. That’s just it.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Heart, Emotional, Way

  "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  Patriotic, Men, America

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• The direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge today of any civilisation. The type of man dominant today is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Taken, Men, Rising Up

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter IX: "The Primitive and the Technical", 1929.

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• Hollywood is a bit of a publicity game where it's constantly trying to portray things and put up this image and I was not interested in that.

  Terry Crews

  Games, Trying, Hollywood

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach to a teacher, but rather to find out what the real deal is in the world itself. You become your own guide. The teachings can help you, but really, we're all here with the opportunity the reality of hereness. We all have that. I trust that...I'm just not interested in labels. I find all of them constrictive. They're hard to wear. And they're hard to wear because we're always - hopefully - growing.

  Alice Walker

  Faith, Teacher, Buddhist

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• I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Black And White, Color, Want

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• I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Rocks, Shadow, Texture

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• I am not interested in the ephemeral - such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.

  Thornton Wilder

  Ephemeral, Adultery, Dentist

  1961 In the New York Times, 6 Mar.

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• If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.

  Karl Kraus

  Police, Stealing, Psychologist

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a resistance to that, and the resistance is strong, it just means you're not interested. Why put yourself through some sort of torture. It means you weren't that interested.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Strong, Mean

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• Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

  Warren Zevon

  Rocks, Piano, Littles

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• I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.

  Walt Disney

  Men, Want, Knows

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• You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all. I'm not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.

  Rick Warren

  Religious, Buddhist, Catholic

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• I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

  Jason Gann

  Numbers, Actors, Imagine

  "Elijah Wood and Jason Gann Talk WILFRED Season 1 Finale Cliffhanger and Ideas for Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

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• As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Feelings, Rare Occasion, May

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• They (voters) want to know what's the truth. They're not interested in a chameleon.

  Michele Bachmann

  Want, Voters, Republican

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• I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Thinking, Air, People

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• Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.

  Sean William Scott

  Military, Agriculture, Waiting

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• I'm not interested in living in a world where my race is not a part of who I am. I am interested in living in a world where our races, no matter what they are, don't define our trajectory in life.

  Kerry Washington

  Race, Who I Am, World

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