William Jennings Bryan Quotes
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.
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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
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My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'
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If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
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I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.
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I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
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If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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I think it's important to do things that you're interested in. I think it's important to have other outlets away from the music industry.
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Sometimes it seems to me that the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty. And I know that's not rationally true. But sometimes it's okay for things not to be rationally true.
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Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.
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I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.
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I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
