Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in.… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it… — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
America may be a fallible democracy. But when the president sacrifices the national interest for his personal interest, we can show that… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
When I write a film, there's a particular thing I am wrestling with and the question or concern I'm dealing with has… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Has knowledge of birth control, so carefully guarded and so secretly practiced by the women of the wealthy class - and so… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
History in the making is a very uncertain thing. It might be better to wait till the South American republic has got… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“The nature of the mind is to acquire, to absorb, is it not? Or rather the pattern it has created for itself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
George W. Bush tried working with the Russians after 9/11; Obama had the reset. Both presidents achieved less than they wanted, but… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
In the US, commercial interests stole the airwaves early on, before public broadcasters could get a stab at it. And the deal… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that… — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information… — Saul Gorn Copy Share Image
I have no interest in increasing the size of government. I just want to make sure we have got a smart government… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My interest in acting was overwhelming, but I wasn't thinking, "I'm going to California and I'm going to become a movie star."… — Louise Fletcher Copy Share Image
Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place… — Lilian Katz Copy Share Image
I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
I have an organization called BLIND [Beautiful Love Incorporated Nonprofit Development], so named because even though my interest is in the black… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
While many of my musicals deal with big themes and ideas, I don't intentionally go looking to write shows like that. A… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
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