Interests Quotes
1840 Interests quotes by 1363 unique authors
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Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
— Edwidge Danticat
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The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role,…
— Jacques Delors
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I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so…
— Joe Dante
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I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what…
— Jessica Ennis
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I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil…
— Joel Edgerton
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I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of…
— William Friedkin
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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
— Alberto Giacometti
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic…
— Garet Garrett
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It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought…
— John Amery
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For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've…
— Jacqueline Emerson
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The problem with much of the debate over this issue is that we confuse two separate matters: immigration policy (how many people we admit) and…
— Tom Tancredo
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It's always the story that interests me.
— Vincente Minnelli
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Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only…
— Margaret Mead
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The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as much as three-quarters,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline…
— Antonio Gramsci
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[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.
— David Chalmers
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It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of…
— James S. Coleman
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What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
— Peter Gay
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The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every…
— Robert M. Gates
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Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.
— Chuck Hagel
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Developed countries should support developing countries in tackling climate change. This not only is their responsibility, but also serves their long-term interests.
— Hu Jintao
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Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to…
— Hu Jintao
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People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.
— Kay Hagan
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