Quotes with agro-interest

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  • Ezra Pound AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Anthony Weiner At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Bob Keeshan Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Barkley was the first of many American skyjackers whose primary interest was money; by 1972, the majority of the nation's hijackings would involve demands for ransom. Barkley himself was declared incompetent to stand trial in November 1971, at which point he was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Georgia.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Doris Lessing Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Benjamin Graham Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII,Ultimate Uses of the Stored Unit
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Armstrong Williams Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bart Gordon Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.
    Bart Gordon
    American lawyer (1949 - )
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  • Arthur Cayley But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Bjork But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Camille Paglia Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Updike Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ''somebody,'' to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Cass Sunstein Concerned about re-election, interest-group reactions, the media, or fundraising, many legislators have found it in their interest to refuse to cooperate with members of the opposing party - or to treat them as enemies in some kind of war, in which the whole point is to defeat and humiliate them. But the American people have been the real losers.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Adam Smith Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bob Woodward Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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