Quotes with interested

  • As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
  • The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
  • You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
  • I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
  • I am not a literary man. I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.
  • I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
  • I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.
  • The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
  • I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.
  • Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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  • Bono 20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity.
    Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
    PENN Address (2004)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Marilyn Monroe I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.
    Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 41
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • B. F. Skinner The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Bryan Burrough 'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Cab Calloway 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Bjork A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Bradley Whitford Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Henry Miller After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John Maynard Keynes Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be...
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Agatha Christie An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
    Life Magazine, 14 May 1956
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Bret Harte And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Anne Tyler And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Arthur Rock And what I'm interested in is investing in people.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Carol Bartz Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Bob Woodward Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Bo Bennett Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Carlo Rubbia As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Bono As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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