Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that

I'm getting rid of the carried interest provision.

I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't have interests, it's just that I don't have the time.

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else

Immaturity is the inability to act in your own long-term best interest or consistent with your deepest values. As aforementioned, self-awareness is critical to self-regulation in that it is the process of identifying, among other things, our values.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

I'm honestly flattered and humbled that anyone would show interest in something I've done, forever.

I'm motivated by my passion for our basic values, protecting our interests, and for protecting the future.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

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

I'm not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now. What interests me is what we are now and what we will be.

I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.

I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American food.

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.

I'm very grateful to be in a position now where I have a lot more control to tell the stories I want to tell. I feel no obligation to tell any one story. I will tell you my interest mostly lies in telling stories about empowered women, but I don't feel it's an obligation. But I do feel like I am servicing a voice.

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.

I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have written a bad campaign, it has been because the product did not interest me.

In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

India claimed to have intervened in Sri Lanka to secure Tamil interests. In actual fact, India came to secure its own interests.

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

I never talk about things that don't matter. I never talk about things that are unimportant. I always talk about things that interest me.

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

Indeed, often because of the size and weight in the world of our neighbor, we in Canada often define ourselves in contrast to American positions on things like Cuba, the Vietnam War and nuclear disarmament. Historically, Canada has not always been aligned with the United States. It doesn't necessarily serve anyone's interests - Canadian or American - to be seen as an extension of the United States.

In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.

Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.

I never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation.

In my community everyone seems to listen or have an interest in what I have to say, what I'm wearing, or what I'm doing. They just follow what I do, I don't tell them to. I just try to lead by example.

In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest

...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.

Interest is the barometer of the state.

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.

Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it.

In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.

interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. And many, many, if not most interviews have that character. The interviewer who comes in with a list of bullet points they're going to address one after the other. Interviews, properly considered, should be investigative. You should not know what you're going to hear. You should be surprised.