Not Interested Quotes - Page 4

• I like to be a team player. All the projects I do are collaborations. And I want to solicit the opinions and help of other people. I'm not interested in being the one in charge.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Team, Player, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.

  Brendan Kennelly

  Reality, Explaining

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• I’m not interested in changing either my suit or my car or whatever with every change in fashion. That’s irrelevant. I don’t judge myself or my friends by their fashions. Of course, I don’t approve of people who are sloppy and unnecessarily shabby or dishevelled… But I’m not impressed by a US$5,000 or US$10,000 Armani suit.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Fashion, Judging, Car

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.148, Editions Didier Millet

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• You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting.

  Iris Apfel

  Interesting, Ifs

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• I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.

  John Green

  Book, Writing, People

  "John Green Interview: ‘Fault In Our Stars’ Author Talks Worst Book Ever, Where He Likes To Read". The Guardian interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

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• We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.

  J. J. Abrams

  Taken, Ideas, Able

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• The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes...

  Woody Allen

  Quality, Half, Toilets

  "Woody Allen on Film Funding + Thoughts on Change". BBC Interview, www.youtube.com. 2011.

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• If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.

  Nick Lowe

  World, Welcome, Domination

  "Nick Lowe, without compromise" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. November 28, 2001.

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• I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing.

  Barack Obama

  People, Church, Want

  "Following Months Of Criticism, Obama Quits His Church" by Michael Powell, www.nytimes.com. June 1, 2008.

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• An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wise, Lying, Men

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• In my day, they were not interested in making boys happy. Those schools were made for the types of men who would become quite successful. It was brutal. They are not brutal today. They are country clubs today.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Country, School, Successful

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• It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.

  Celia Green

  People, Facts, Odd

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Change, Opportunity, Mirrors

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• Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."

  Alan Turing

  New York, Powerful, Voice

  "Alan Turing: The Enigma". Book by Andrew Hodges, p. 251, 1983.

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• I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size.

  Sebastian Stan

  Size, Flexible

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• I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money.

  Anna Wintour

  Sexy, Want, Kind

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• I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.

  Kajol

  Kitchen, Affair, Pot

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• I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Imagination, Want, Slice Of Life

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• I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.

  Erskine Caldwell

  People, Plot, Characterization

  Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.182, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.

  John Malkovich

  Knows

  Interview With Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2003.

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• I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.

  Wendell Willkie

  Philosophy, Race, Support

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• I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

  Crystal Eastman

  Children, Minors, Seeing

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• It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

  Andrew Greeley

  Art, School, Catholic

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• The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

  Nat King Cole

  Sports, Horse, Racing

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• I'm not interested in entertainment.

  Howard Barker

  Entertainment

  "Howard Barker: 'I don't care if you listen or not'". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2012.

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