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“The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a series of essays called "The Iron Law of Oligarchy" and in these essays he discusses how no matter what sorts of freedoms are advertised or put into a society structure, that all societies, all form of governments - whether they be a Roman republic, whether they be a democracy, whether they be a Russian communist system, whatever, a tribe... a tribal council - all of the continuously, throughout the ages, have all converted back into an oligarchy.”

“The interesting thing about the ACE study, as it began in the 1990s, is that it was based on a very strict set of ten questions. But what is evolving from that is a better understanding what kind of experiences are beyond the ten questions, and what kind of stressors it generates, there are so many ways that children can be exposed to ongoing stress.”

Way Kind Children Understanding Interesting Study Ten Stress Evolve Exposed Strict Ongoing Interesting Things Aces Stressors

Author:James Redford

“The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up.”

People Kind Mean Country Interesting All Kinds African American Interesting Things

Author:Barack Obama

“The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.”

People Kind Certain Interesting Growing Up Growing Generations One Thing Becoming Adults Interesting Things Our Generation Becoming An Adult

Author:Paul McCartney

“The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.”

Thinking Looks Children Play Stories Individual Interesting Company China Credit Dues Extensions Spain Greece Interesting Things Macro

Author:James Chanos

“The interesting thing about the religious component, for me, is that Jesus hardly mentions sex at all. He's pretty interested in the poor, he's pretty interested in selling your worldly goods and storing up riches in heaven. However, religious fundamentalists have made it all about sex, and that's like saying, "Look at the sex and we're just not going to talk about what you may be doing in a financial way that is sinful."”

Way Looks May Made Jesus Heaven Sex Religious Interesting Poor Financial Riches Selling Made It Goods Worldly Components Interesting Things

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.”

Knows Way Play Artist Interesting Vision Painting Great Art Interesting Things Great Artist Sensing Salome

Author:Al Pacino

“The interesting thing about TV drama that's kind of nice is, I'm just an actor. I'm doing my role.”

Kind Actors Interesting Roles Nice Tvs Drama Interesting Things

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“The interesting thing for me about the debate about same-sex marriage ... is that it's one of those issues where it has no impact on anyone apart from the people that it impacts upon. So I find it quite bewildering that it's - that it's so complicated for people.”

People Sex Interesting Issues Impact Complicated Debate Interesting Things

Author:Cate Blanchett

“The interesting thing for me is that everybody felt that I was really wild when i was unbalanced and desperate to communicate something and didn't have a sense of purpose. But I've never been so crazy and wild as I am with my son or as I am now.”

Purpose Felt Interesting Crazy Son Communicate Desperate My Son Interesting Things Unbalanced

Author:Angelina Jolie

“The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with my father.”

Together Father Interesting Influence Interesting Things

Author:Rokia Traore

“The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives.”

Ifs Persons Doe Left President Interesting Wings Upset President Obama Interesting Things Left Wing

Author:Cornel West

“The interesting thing I learned was that if you're really concerned about your health, the best decisions for your health turn out to be the best decisions for the farmers and the best decisions for the environment-and that there is no contradiction there.”

Ifs Turns Decision Interesting Environment Concerned Being The Best Contradiction Farmers Interesting Things

Author:Michael Pollan

“The interesting thing I've learned about best friends is that you can have more than one. I have two. One I love with passion, the other I love with complete affection. Archer is my heart, my soul, my reason, and the sum of my experiences, and Ringo is laughter and adventure and strange wisdom that answers the questions that wakes me up at two a.m.”

Author:April White

Source: Cheating Death

“The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.”

Ifs Mind Facts Literature Interesting Tests Interesting Things Changing Your Mind

Author:Diane Sawyer

“The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.”

People Life Motivational Guy Interesting Fantasy Interesting Things

Author:Hugh Hefner

“The interesting thing is it's outside the statute of limitations for a civil suit by Leeds. It's actually is not outside of the statute of limitations under the criminal side. Because it occurred on an airplane and federal law doesn't have a statute of limitations I know off for that particular offense.”

Knows Law Sides Interesting Particular Criminals Suits Limitation Airplane Offense Interesting Things Statutes Leeds

Author:Megyn Kelly

“The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying.”

War Together Fall Found Interesting Scene Dancing Falling In Love Appeals Interesting Things Marrying

Author:Maximilian Schell

“The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I draw or look at a painting, I go into a sort of overdrive and just see things differently than other people.”

People Looks Sometimes Fall Interesting Failing Painting Draws Ordinary Everyday Everyday Life Interesting Things Ordinary Things Overdrive

Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi

“The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.”

Has Beens Seems President Interesting Majors Baseball League Could Have Been Interesting Things Major League Major League Baseball

Author:Eddie Vedder

“The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball. Less people killed. It wouldn't have affected the world on a planetary level. Sure, there would have been little things. There would have been scandals and kind of numbskull things here and there .”

People World Kind President Interesting Baseball League Little Things Major League

Author:Eddie Vedder

“The interesting thing is that the 82% of the Greeks do not want to abandon the Euro. They really believe that there might be some kind of magical way where we could stay in the Eurozone but do not do our homework. This is not possible. So what we are trying to do is explain, you know, we in Greece invented democracy but we also invented at the same time populism.”

Knows Way Want Trying Believe Kind Might Interesting Democracy Greek Abandon Greece Interesting Things Homework Euro Populism Eurozone

Author:Dora Bakoyannis

“The interesting thing is that there are so few important decisions. You don't have to go in the "right" direction. You don't have to enter the "right" business. What you have to do is have made a decision as to what you're going to do and then you just have to figure out how to succeed at it.”

Made Important Justice Decision Interesting Business Figures Succeed Interesting Things Right Direction Important Decisions

Author:Ken Oshman

“The interesting thing is that you don't have to know the answers - simply asking the questions and your reflection itself causes the rewiring of the brain.”

Knows Causes Answers Interesting Brain Reflection Asking Interesting Things

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.”

Light Interesting Humour Poet Interesting Things

Author:Wendy Cope

“The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta write a song today, I have a title" and all of that, and sometimes inspiration just happens, almost like "Sugar, Sugar" and a couple of the other songs. But basically, I just started playing the piano, and I'm not a great piano player.”

People Thinking Writing Wells Sometimes Inspiration Happens Today Song Interesting Player Couple Down And Titles Piano Sugar Songwriters Interesting Things

Author:Andy Kim

“The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.”

Needs Bigs Energy Interesting One Thing Modern Fields Civilization Enormous Interesting Things Modern Civilization

Author:Charlie Munger

“The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.”

Want Long Care Success Interesting Business Technology Design Window Educational Customers Selling Architect Interesting Things Linux Inspirational Customer Service Server

Author:Michael Dell

“The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.”

Persons Interesting Loneliness Desperate Interesting Things Being Lonely Anesthetics

Author:David Foster Wallace

“The interesting thing is, everybody focuses on the global warming as an environmental issue, as something outside our daily lives. But actually the impact of global warming is with us today. Communities are suffering. Communities in poor countries are the ones paying the price, they are not the ones who are polluting, and we need to help them adapt.”

Needs Country Helping Today Suffering Community Interesting Poor Issues Impact Environmental Global Warming Daily Life Interesting Things Poor Countries Environmental Issues

Author:Kofi Annan

“The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.”

World Used Dies Grows Interesting Poor Poverty Economy Land Disease Eating Developing Meat Grain Interesting Things Brethren Affluence Fatty

Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“The interesting thing now for No Child Left Behind is that there are very few advocates for it; there is no constituency for it. Parents don't like it, administrators don't like it, and kids don't like it, but politicians and bureaucrats in Washington love it--which should be the first indication to you that it is a troubled program.”

Should Firsts Children Kids Left Parent Interesting Behinds Politician Program Left Behind Interesting Things Indication Bureaucrats Administrators No Child Left Behind

Author:Bob Schaffer

“The interesting thing that happens for many people when they first start meditating is that they'll be doing it for a few months, and they will begin to change, but the experience is so subtle that they're not even aware of it.”

People Firsts Happens Interesting Months Subtle Interesting Things Meditating

Author:David Lynch

“The interesting thing was we never talked about pottery. Bernard [Leach] talked about social issues; he talked about the world political situation, he talked about the economy, he talked about all kinds of things.”

World Kind Political Social Interesting Situation Economy Issues All Kinds Social Issues Interesting Things Pottery

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“The interesting thing with acting, actually, is that you get to be so many different people that you get to do so much research on so many different things that I've learned so much about brain surgery and about astrophysicist-type of things and traveling to amazing parts of the world.”

People World Different Interesting Acting Brain Type Research I've Learned Different Things Surgery Different Peoples Interesting Things Brain Surgery

Author:Carla Gugino

“The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They're imagining they're out in the yard playing. They're imagining that things happened, and they can get very vivid.”

Children Kids Actors Natural Interesting Acting Wonderful Happened Things Happen Yards Vivid Interesting Things Child Actors

Author:Clint Eastwood

“The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a new generation that has not grown up with him.”

Writing Interesting Generations Interesting Things New Generation Buckminster Fuller

Author:Jonathon Keats

“The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.”

Way Humans Real Human Beings Interesting Comedy Tricks Real Things Grounding

Author:Natasha Lyonne

“The interests behind fracking are very powerful and they've managed to control the dialogue for a while, because they have forced people to sign disclosure agreements; people who have had negative experiences who are not able to speak out because they've signed disclosure agreements with the gas companies. Things like this. They've managed to strangle the opposing viewpoint, but it does seem like the people who are against fracking have started to gain some traction and the realities of what an environmental nightmare it is are starting to become known.”

“The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.”

Wells Found Nations Interest Moral Duty Understood Moral Duty

Author:Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1792-1793

“The interests of all Cypriots would be advanced with a bizonal bicommunal federation.”

Would Be Interest Federation Cypriots

Author:Barack Obama

“The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from the grasping wastrels of the land. We must respect another truism - that unlimited and unregulated growth, leads inexorably to a lowered quality of life.”

Today Growth Interest Quality Land Protected Unlimited Quality Of Life Grasping Oregon Truism

Author:Tom McCall

“The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.”

Whole Truth Fear Interest Fields Abundance Deficiency Whole Truth

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.”

States Earth Interest Dollars Riches Corporations

Author:William O. Douglas

Source: POINTS OF REBELLION

“The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.”

Interest Ten Nine Employed Ninety Employers Ninety Nine

Author:George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

“The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.”

Bigs Seems Today Interest Streets Wall International Imf

Author:Che Guevara

Source: The Awakening of Latin America: A Classic Anthology of Che Guevara's Writing on Latin America

“The interests of the minority must be safeguarded. That doesn't work in Africa. The African knows and understands one principle: winner takes all-and let the minority go to the wall. That's what will happen to the white settlers in Kenya if the British capitulate to the Mau Mau killers.”

Historical Fiction Africa Apartheid Racial Tension

Author:Wilbur Smith

“The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.”

Country Running Interest Economy Benefits Unions Empires Soviet Soviet Union Developed Country

Author:Barbara Amiel

“The interests of the state must come first.”

Firsts States Interest Absolutism

Author:Louis XVI of France

“The interests of the States... ought to be made joint in every possible instance in order to cultivate the idea of our being one nation, and to multiply the instances in which the people shall look up to Congress as their head.”

People Looks Made Ideas States Order Nations Interest Ought Congress Instance Look Up Joints

Author:Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State