Quotes with self-interest

Quotes 281 till 300 of 886.

  • Bruce Willis I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Ben Stein I hope it won't come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
    Hypocrisy, Democrat Style. The American Spectator
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Albert Einstein I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Jane Austen I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Andrew Wiles I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Agatha Christie I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Bryan Batt I think in your home, you should only use colors that you look good in. It's a little self-serving but think if it as you're on a stage. Not with any pressure, but you want to showcase yourself.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Arthur Miller I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Kofi Annan I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Abdul Kalam I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Anne Bronte I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Don DeLillo I'd like to lose interest in myself.
    White Noise (2011) 171
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Alex Trebek I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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  • Barry Diller I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Ben Casnocha I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Barbara Rosenblat I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
    Barbara Rosenblat
    British actress (1950 - )
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  • Antoine Rivarol Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Arnold Bennett If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Barry Sternlicht 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.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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