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Quotes About Interest

We couldn't be happier that the show has encouraged kids to have an interest in science and math, but we don't try to do that. We just have fun, which is its own bold statement.
~ Jamie Hyneman
I don't have any interest in filmmakers making statements just for the sake of being provocative.
~ Chris Pine
Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.
~ Robert Toombs
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?
~ J. G. Ballard
I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.
~ Conor Oberst
I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.
~ Chuck Klosterman
I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.
~ Lars Peter Hansen
I think people are okay without knowing what my relationship status is. When nobody asks me, how can people be interested?
~ Ranvir Shorey
As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Some are motivated by a desire to mould the law to expand the rights of the downtrodden, while other may be motivated by a desire to maintain the Status Quo. Some may even be motivated by a desire to protect what they perceive to be their class interest. And such motives may not always even be conscious to the judges.
~ Prashant Bhushan
When I started out I thought just hearing one of my records on the radio would be magical. Fortunately, that naivety has always stayed with me. Because when you've had massive success and it tapers off people lose interest in you. So you have to work even harder to generate interest.
~ Gilbert O'Sullivan
There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.
~ Luis Figo
I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.
~ John Philip Sousa
A man can give me a steak, and he's got my attention.
~ Italia Ricci
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
~ Doris Lessing
The more real I got on 'The Bourne Identity,' the more interesting it got. So 'Fair Game' was the chance to go a few more steps in that direction. In fact, I discovered this whole other world that I had ignored in the 'Bourne' franchise, which is the domestic life of a spy, and how you make the two halves of your life coexist.
~ Doug Liman
The interest in character-driven content over narrative-driven ditto is increasing; that's why television steps in. Personally, I love it, since psychology and character, really, are my beacons.
~ Johan Renck
Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.
~ Manish Dayal
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
~ Thomas Hobbes
The voters lack the information—or the interest—to develop a coherent view of politics beyond a general party identification, and this reality plays itself out regularly in U.S. elections.
~ Thomas M. Nichols
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
~ Thomas Mann
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
~ Thomas Paine
That in which every man is interested, is every man's duty to support. And any burden which falls equally on all men, and from which every man is to receive an equal benefit, is consistent with the most perfect ideas of liberty.
~ Thomas Paine
the greatest forces that can be brought into the field of revolutions, are reason and common interest. Where these can have the opportunity of acting, opposition dies with fear, or crumbles away by conviction.
~ Thomas Paine