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“Do you think that clothes have a life of their own, and maybe have unsuitable affairs with opposite styles? I mean - you look at some people - their clothes go on flirting long after the people inside them have lost interest.”

People Thinking Looks Mean Long Lost Interest Style Goes On Clothes Opposites Affair Flirting

Author:Margaret Mahy

“Cincinnati at that time was also beginning to realize it had major cartooning talent in Jim Borgman, at the city's other paper, and I didn't benefit from the comparison.His footsteps seemed like good ones to follow, so I cultivated an interest in politics, and Borgman helped me a lot in learning how to construct an editorial cartoon. Neither of us dreamed I'd end up in the same town on the opposite paper.”

Ends Interest Realizing Cities Talent Paper Benefits Majors Opposites Towns Comparison Cartoon Constructs Footsteps Editorials Interest In Politics

Author:Bill Watterson

“The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public.”

Men Long Different Law Order Interest Attention Ought Opposites Regulation Deceiving Commerce Businessman Adopted Suspicious Proposal Wealth Of Nations

Author:Adam Smith

“The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.”

Different Interest Particular Opposites Trade Competition Branches Dealer

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.”

Has Beens Actors Interest Female Opposites Casts Movie

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.”

People Knows Use Interest Technology Information Computer Opposites Be Good Information Technology

Author:Andy Rooney

“I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome.”

People Feels Two Interest Loses Opposites Angry Tendencies Trends Retreat Private Life Troublesome Turkish Demoralized Two Opposites Interest In Politics

Author:Elif Safak

“Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.”

Want Interest Records Opposites Old Records

Author:Michael Gira

“One can't allow blind loyalty to a friendship to lead one away from acting in the public interest. If Martin [Schulz] were to propose something that was totally absurd, our friendship would not prevent me from doing the opposite.”

Ifs Interest Acting Opposites Blind Loyalty Absurd Propose Public Interest

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.”

Ifs Men Doe Two Would Be Spiritual Spirituality Interest Opposites Two Things Selfless Providence Lots Of Money Cricket Commentary Endorsements

Author:Imran Khan

“Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.”

People Ifs Interest Opposites Thrilling

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“It took about three minutes for the unassuming Waffle House to become the new offices of the law firm of Amber, Amber, Amber, and Madison. They set up camp in a clump of booths in the corner opposite from us. A few of them gave me an "oh, good, you are still alive" nod, but for the most part, they had no interest in anyone else.”

Stills Law Three House Interest Alive Minutes Office Opposites Corners Firm Camps Amber Madison Waffles Unassuming Law Firms

Book:Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories

“Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.”

Persons Hope Interest Results Numbers Mistake Sacrifice Produce Expectations Advantage Opposites Infinite Property Avarice Doubtful Great Future

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public.”

Humans Whole Might Interest Virtue Policy Opposites Affair Motive Defects Rivals

Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788