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“Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.”

Needs Different Done Fighting Interest Party Focus Special Urges Special Interests

Author:Ken Salazar

“There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.”

“Don't always talk about your life, where you live, interests - people learn from your vibratory form and can get inside you. Plus those relationships where you know everything about each other are boring!”

People Knows Form Interest Boring Plus Where You Live

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.”

Way Kind Children Self Wisdom Interest Consciousness Wise Havens Buddhism Innocence Self Consciousness Vested Interests

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.”

Opportunity Interest Plans Blood Missing My Future Future Plans Hazy Future Planning

Author:Gary Larson

“If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.”

Ifs Wanted Interest Powerful Method Structure Cells Analysis

Author:Joshua Lederberg

“Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.”

Should Self Use Interest Technology Support Involved Clean Enlightened Capture Carbon Self Interest Defence Enabling Storage Crank Hydrocarbons

Author:Nicholas Stern

“My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.”

Ideas Bigs Interest Novel Concepts Big Ideas Domestic Life Minutiae

Author:Scarlett Thomas

“The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.”

Should Years I Can States Able America Interest Walks United United States Percent Obligation Best Things Reserves United States Of America Federal Reserve

Author:Andrew Tobias

“You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.”

Government Interest Can Do Talking

Author:Tom Tancredo

“Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.”

Interest Celtic Celtic Music

Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.”

Thinking Writing Art Facts Artist Song Interest Natural Listening Grew Kings Grew Up Inspired Guitar Songwriting Writing Songs Playing Guitar

Author:Kate Voegele

“I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.”

Littles Interest Lows Rate Financial Spread Aids Income Loan Interest Rate Brackets Repayment Financial Aid

Author:Charles M. Vest

“I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.”

Stills Interest Work Out Wide Range

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to decide what you play. I don't know. I can only say this: I don't want to and have no interest in playing a plastic surgeon. That's for sure. I'm open to anything else.”

People Knows Want I Can Play Next Actors Asks Interest Plastic Surgeons Plastic Surgeons

Author:Dylan Walsh

“I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them.”

Ifs Kind Song Interest Loses Simple Levels Flow Currents Impression Hiccups

Author:Gillian Welch

“The main thing was finding this... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice that I developed, that people would want to hear and that was worth paying attention to.”

People Want Strong Voice Interest Attention Quiet Findings Pay Attention Very Strong Stoic

Author:Gillian Welch

“In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.”

Long Running Interest Virtue Depends Long Runs Public Interest

Book:On Character: Essays

Source: On Character: Essays

“Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.”

I Can Play Political Interest Roles Creative Musician Jazz Because I Can Bluegrass

Author:Jeffrey Wright

“Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.”

Thinking Stories Jobs Interest Waking Mundane Waking Life

Author:Jim Woodring

“I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.”

Thinking Used Order Interest Crazy Freak Unfamiliar Abnormal

Author:Jim Woodring

“There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.”

People Believe Country States Seems Belief Interest United United States Dangerous Incredibles Absurd Outsiders

Author:Lawrence Wright

“If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.”

People Ifs Want Needs Children Suffering Next Interest Natural Doubt Generations Mountain Consequence Appreciate Climbs Surroundings Next Generation

Author:Tamae Watanabe

“I don't interest myself that much.”

Interest

Author:Trisha Yearwood

“I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in actually showing the American people his - his finances, decision - important decisions about his investments, refuses to come clean on his time at Bain Capital and when he was really there, and, you know, be held accountable for the outsourcing of jobs and the off-shoring of jobs and shipping jobs overseas.”

People Thinking Knows Important Seems Jobs Interest Decision Clean Investment Refuse Finance Secrecy Romney Important Decisions Shipping Outsourcing

Author:Mitt Romney

“People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.”

People Political Life Is Interest Fundamentals Political Life

Book:What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

Source: What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

“Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.”

Stills Interest Rate Debt Corporate These Days Borrowing Interest Rate

Author:Thomas Frank

“I have no interest in saying "This is who I am! This is what I'm like!"”

Interest Who I Am

Author:Jen Kirkman

“When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.”

Used Artist Culture Courses Language Interest Christianity Audience Materials Genius Taste Capacity Accounts Paint Indifference Laziness Ignored Strict Marble Incompetence Tamed Haughty

Author:C. S. Lewis

“We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity among the working people regardless of creed, color, nationality or politics. These principles are the foundation principles of our organization.”

“In the midst of the flurry - clarity. In the midst of the storm - calm. In the midst of divided interests - certainty. In the many roads - a certain choice.”

Certain Choices Interest Strength Calm Storm Clarity Certainty Arrogance Midst Divided Encouraging Heartfelt

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.”

Life Inspirational Grows Interest Losing Aging Live Life Losing Interest

Book:How to conquer your handicaps

Source: How to conquer your handicaps

“Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.”

Inspirational Interest Enthusiasm Capture Glowing Energy And Enthusiasm

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.”

Ifs Asks Interest Answers Audience

Author:Kurt Loder

“The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.”

Littles Bits Interest Little Bit Radio Rockets Rating Rocket Science

Author:Al Franken

“Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.”

Stories Happens Lying Interest Crime

Author:William Landay

“Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.”

Two States Interest Party Willing Tools Function Trade Scales Goods Textbooks Sellers Buyers Large Scale Private Parts

Author:Charles C. Mann

“I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.”

Trying Interest Servant Investors

Author:Yuri Milner

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

Book:Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth

Source: Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth

“What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.”

Interest Crosses Passionate Sections

Author:Chris Marker

“There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.”

Whole Interest Class Conditions Organization Subordinates Sects Chapel

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.”

School Interest Gone Magic High School Comedian

Author:Gary McCord

“I really don't have that much interest in stardom.”

Interest Stardom

Author:Tom Verlaine

“I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.”

Kind Stories Interest My Own Pulp Vivacity

Author:Daniel Woodrell

“What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.”

Trying Young Opportunity Interest Can Do Player Best Things

Author:Ricky Williams

“I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.”

Thinking Stills Christian Interest Deals Christian Faith

Author:Rowan Williams

“I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.”

Ifs Sometimes Done Interest Careers Broke If I Could Offering

Author:Sam Waterston

“I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.”

People Firsts States Interest Policy Partners Russia Rhetoric Strategic Ukrainian

Author:Viktor Yanukovych

“I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US forces, and for what reason, and to make a clear judgment as to what we can and can't do and whether it's in our interests, or we could afford the resources that it would take to make the situation right.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Reason Force Interest Situation Clear Effects Judgment Resources Careful Commit Mogadishu

Author:Anthony Zinni

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