I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
I like movies that interest me and stories that interest me, I don't think about how much money it's gonna [cost] to… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
By over-all planning, we mean planning which takes into consideration the interests of the 600 million people of our country. In drawing… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course,… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
We shouldn't be thinking about individuals or departments. We should be thinking about national interest. Lifting the standard of Pakistan squash is… — Jahangir Khan Copy Share Image
In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
American national security and American economic interests, of course - every president, every secretary of state - that is the primary goal.… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Illegal immigration is praised only by those who benefit directly from it, whether in the familial sense of inexpensive nannies, cooks, or… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is… — George C. Edwards III Copy Share Image
In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether.… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
If you look at the way all of the new reform movements dedicated to the public interest are living and thriving on… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Does celebrity interest anyone? It's definitely not appealing to me. I think anyone who's had any real exposure to it would probably… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
People think that politics just somehow magically organizes itself. It doesn't work that way. You need to assemble these huge coalitions of… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
I don't have any interest in being a chef without being on the business side of things, or vice versa, because if… — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Everyone makes a difference. Someone who does something for others makes a big difference. A person who has no self-interest to do… — Anuj Copy Share Image
In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
What we're trying to do is determine if our shareholders and customers have been misled. We can't think of a single shareholder… — Chad Jones Copy Share Image
There are somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 working magic professionals in the world, and since we debuted our Magic Kit, we have… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking… — Randall L. Stephenson Copy Share Image
We should encourage comrades to take the interests of the whole into account. Every Party member, every branch of work, every statement… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Immaturity is the inability to act in your own long-term best interest or consistent with your deepest values. As aforementioned, self-awareness is… — Chip Espinoza Copy Share Image
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
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