Interesting Quotes

• You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

  

  John Oliver
  • True
  • Interesting
  • Funny

• You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.

  

  David Meerman Scott
  • People
  • Creating
  • Publishing

• The boxing promotion part is really interesting, because I got the chance to do something with my sons. They carry their own weight, and I get a chance to listen to them and see what they have on their minds. I don't have to hand out things to do, and now they have things for me to do. It's an amazing privilege to get the opportunity to work with your children.

  

  George Foreman
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Son

• I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • Interesting

• I've always thought the Nat Turner story to be very interesting.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Interesting

• I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Violence

• It's interesting to all of a sudden be considered valuable.

  

  SZA
  • Interesting

• Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Effort
  • Struggle
  • Pleasure

• My life is like tofu—it's what gets added that makes it interesting.

  

  Angela Johnson
  • Life
  • Added
  • Tofu

• The world is so fundamentally interesting that it makes me fall in love with it a dozen times a day.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Fall

• Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge 'facts' 'everybody' knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Real
  • History
  • True

• I think our Acompli acquisition was an interesting one, which started with a partnership and looking at their mobile e-mail app on iOS and Android. And what I would like to highlight with that one is the speed that we actually turned that around and brought it out the door.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Interesting
  • Door

• I mean this is not like a very dry political book. This is - it was a very quick and entertaining and interesting read because there were so many stories, at least for me, of real women and - and sort of the issues that they face, and her commitment to wanting to help them.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Women
  • Real
  • Book

• We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.

  

  John Lithgow
  • People
  • Interesting

• I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Knowledge
  • Stop
  • Learning

• My stories often begin with a situation or character rather than an insight about the human condition. It's always been difficult for me to write from an abstract idea, no matter how interesting or compelling I feel the idea might be.

  

  Karl Iagnemma
  • Character
  • Interesting

• Playing the misunderstood character has been really interesting to me. But I think after too long, that also becomes a little bit of a cliche. Or that's all you're expected to do. I didn't want that to be the totality of what my career was.

  

  Anne Dudek
  • Long
  • Character
  • Career

• I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Europe
  • Fathers
  • Doubtless

• The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing with other humans. What is there to write about? Truck stops, hotels, clubs?

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Road
  • Wise
  • Truck

• I think CGI is interesting, but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.

  

  Ben Wheatley
  • Interesting

• It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works are in institutions and museums, they keep living on and on and on, even if you move to a different space, that work is still operating.

  

  Kalup Linzy
  • Work
  • Different
  • Art

• It's an interesting thing about being a 'fem.' People automatically assume that I'm straight.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • People
  • Interesting

• It is an interesting thing. Every time I try and stray from the path of food, I get whacked.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Time
  • Food
  • Path

• I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Moral

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