Interest Quotes

• I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Tired
  • Sick
  • Given

• We are looking with interest at that proposal. It is a proposal in which enrichment would be done outside, in Russia, but at the moment no agreement has been reached between Russia and Iran.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Russia
  • Iran
  • Proposal

• I'm not going to take any special interest money or any PAC money... when I get to Washington I want to be the voice for the people of Connecticut and not owe special favors.

  

  Linda McMahon
  • People
  • Money
  • Washington

• The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.

  

  Berthold Auerbach
  • Ugly
  • Realizing
  • Prove

• A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Ideas
  • Groups
  • Mentality

• We have a peculair interest because the true defence of our country, owing to scientific development, is now no longer the Channel.

  

  Austen Chamberlain
  • Interest
  • Development
  • Scientific

• It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Business
  • Interest
  • Seriously

• I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Artist
  • The Beatles
  • Yoko

• I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Feels
  • Audience
  • White

• I think that Walter's [White] whole career is indicative of a large degree of egocentricity. Perhaps to be generous, you would have to say that he was a product of his period, which was that of self-projection in the name of organizational interest.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Thinking
  • Career
  • Period

• Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Laughter

• Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

  

  George Gilder
  • People
  • Concern
  • Vulgar

• Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • High
  • Trouble
  • Borrow

• There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money; for when money can be had in this way, repayment is seldom thought of in time, the interest becomes a loss, exertions to raise it by dent of industry cease, it comes easy and is spent freely, and many things are indulged in that would never be thought of if they were to be purchased by the sweat of the brow.

  

  George Washington
  • Easy
  • Dangerous
  • Loss

• I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Time
  • American
  • Opposition

• We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.

  

  Ai-jen Poo
  • Live
  • Women
  • Family

• As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Long
  • Discussion
  • Welfare

• The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Ability
  • Compromise
  • Politeness

• I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Thinking
  • Feminism
  • Backlash

• I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Ability
  • Mathematics
  • Calculus

• It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Interest
  • Pleases

• The power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed.

  

  Antony C. Sutton
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Government

• The problem is that mainly the metal press has an interest in Burzum, and the rest of the world... probably hardly even know Burzum exists, and those who do shy away due to my fairly.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • World
  • Problem
  • Shy

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