“I'm a long time [Scott] Fitzgerald fan, as probably everyone in America is. And I've always been fascinated by that theme of, what is the price of the American dream and what parts of your soul do you walk away with? The conflict of art versus commerce was also very interesting to me.” LongArtSoulDreamAmericaWalksInterestingFansConflictLong TimeYour SoulThemeFascinatedAmerican DreamCommerceVersusVery InterestingScott Fitzgerald Author:Matt Bomer
“The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.” KindWholeGovernmentFilmInterestingCinemaVery InterestingIranian Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I think it would be very interesting to see that many people would probably be okay with paying more for services and goods that they felt were more holistically [generated]. Which means the death of the old system which rewarded people for taking advantage of one another.” PeopleThinkingMeanWould BeFeltInterestingAdvantageOkayGoodsVery InterestingTaking Advantage Author:Billy Corgan
“I'm kinda just looking to do things that have never been done, but still have that skratcher b-boy element included. Very interesting experiments happen and it's not always a good thing, but learning from doing it - all the beautiful mistakes - and accidentally coming up with something I love is the real fun!” StillsRealDoneHappensBeautifulFunLove IsInterestingMistakeBoysElementsGood ThingsExperimentsVery Interesting Author:DJ QBert
“I do think that she [Hillary Clinton] will prove that she's the best, whether she's in the White House or somewhere else. I think it will very much be a historic moment, when we are able to say that we actually have done something like put a woman in the White House. Its very interesting to think about considering its taken us long as it has.” ThinkingLongDoneMomentsAbleHouseWhiteInterestingTakenProveClintonWhite HouseConsideringHistoricVery InterestingSomewhere Else Author:Madeleine Albright
“I was very proud of that, of taking women and making them vulnerable and so I continued doing that. Right after Beaches I did "Pretty Woman", then I did "Frankie and Johnnie" and then I did "Other Sister" and "Princess Diaries" so that helped me get into the vein there of understanding women and trying to make them very pretty and very interesting.” TryingUnderstandingInterestingProudVulnerableBeachPrincessVeinsVery InterestingDiariesPretty WomanOther SisterPrincess Diaries Author:Garry Marshall
“I love to hear stories about people who got to places where they are today. Those kinds of things are very interesting to me.” PeopleKindStoriesTodayInterestingVery Interesting Author:Tasha Smith
“There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.” WayActorsIndividualStuffInterestingApproachVery Interesting Author:Kevin Spacey
“I just think that pop music is very interesting in how it can reach so many people. I like that I can tell stories and I just wanted to be heard more, I guess. That's why it's pop, but in my mind I don't really view my music as pop, I don't really view it as anything. I just look at it as a picture, I like visuals.” PeopleThinkingMindLooksI CanStoriesWantedInterestingViewsHeardMusic IsPopsVisualsVery InterestingPop Music Author:Melanie Martinez
“A very interesting and promising cluster has formed here [in the Russian Far East ], and we would be happy if our potential investors, our counterparts from abroad, first of all those from the Asia-Pacific region, knew more about it.” IfsFirstsWould BeInterestingEastRegionsInvestorsAsiaVery InterestingPacificCounterpartsClusters Author:Vladimir Putin
“We breed dogs to be more social than the wolf. There is very interesting research that has been done with a wolf and a domestic dog. If you have a tamed wolf and you have him sit in front of the experimenter or stand in front of his master and his two dishes, one to the right, one to the left – so that the dog or wolf see the food put in the left hand dish but the owner points to the right – the domesticated will go where owner points, whereas the the wolf goes right where he saw the meat thing put. In other words, in a dog social cue from a master can override where he saw the being placed.” Has BeensDoneSocialInterestingDogResearchVery Interesting Author:Temple Grandin
“It was a very interesting experience. You know, I don't think words could do it justice. Roseanne [Barr] is a comedian, a laugh a minute at every turn, and this time around she was actually going to be the vice presidential candidate of another Green Party candidate. So I guess she's still in the mix in some ways,sort of learning her politics as she goes, like a lot of us Americans who are getting thrown under the bus and for whom it is not a laughing matter. We are going to stand up and take this seriously and refuse to be intimidated out of the future that we deserve.” ThinkingKnowsWayStillsMatterTurnsJusticeInterestingPartyLaughingMinutesDeserveGreenVicesRefuseComedianPresidentialCandidatesThrownBusVery InterestingIntimidatedVice PresidentPresidential CandidateGreen PartyThrown Under The Bus Author:Jill Stein
“I think that the exchange is very important. Before I did the exhibition in Shanghai, I was a judge for the John Moores Painting Prize and that was very interesting for me, because some of the judges are Chinese and some are British, and we look at the work together. It was fascinating that most of the time we were in complete agreement, but some of the time we were not. People send their works from all over China. For a foreigner, this gave me a very good picture about what is happening in China and its art today.” PeopleThinkingLooksArtImportantTodayTogetherInterestingPaintingJudgingHappeningsVery GoodChinaBritishChineseFascinatingAgreementWorking TogetherPrizeVery InterestingForeignersExhibitionsShanghai Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.” IfsBigsInterestingPossibilityDialogueAbstractContrastDiscourseVery Interesting Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as we discussed earlier, we don't have a great definition or even a good technological handle to know whether something is conscious or not just by looking at it, so there's that aspect that we're not ready to answer, I would argue. But it raises very interesting questions about the nature of identity.” IfsKnowsHumansAnswersInterestingBrainIdentityReadyConsciousAspectRaisesDefinitionsArguingHandleMapsBe YouTechnologicalVery InterestingNot ReadyHuman Brain Author:Edward Boyden
“The most exciting thing in England is a pigeon or foxes, which isn't very interesting to watch because everyone knows what they do. But I've taken pictures of them. Just for practice.” KnowsInterestingWatchesPracticeTakenExcitingEnglandFoxesVery InterestingPigeonsExciting Things Author:Asa Butterfield
“I kind of feel connected to all places at the moment, and I've done very interesting projects in both places (Israel and America).” FeelsKindDoneMomentsAmericaInterestingProjectsIsraelConnectedVery Interesting Author:Meital Dohan
“I'm a fan of the mythos of Atlanta hip-hop, and it's something I grew up imagining. It was very interesting to get there and see the real version of this world and then reconcile the differences between what's presented as Atlanta hip-hop to the rest of the world and what the real, breathing version of it is.” WorldRealDifferencesInterestingFansThis WorldGrewGrew UpHip HopVersionsHipsBreathingHopsVery InterestingReconcileAtlanta Author:Hiro Murai
“You're in the middle of making a movie and this part of the process is always very interesting. Because you think what you're making your movie is and then you start putting it out there, and then people tell you what your movie is.” PeopleThinkingProcessInterestingMiddleVery Interesting Author:Peter Berg
“We're always trying to avoid being in the darkness, not knowing, and also encountering animals. There's something about them not wanting to be seen; they go out at night, they hide, they don't want to be shown. It's very interesting genetically that they have to hide from us actually. Between themselves, they smell each other, but there is this thing of hiding, of suspicion.” WantTryingNightAnimalInterestingDarknessKnowingSmellHidingSuspicionNot KnowingVery InterestingAlways Trying Author:Michal Rovner
“I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and the subject of not wanting a child is a very interesting subject, one that's not dealt with very much actually.However that complexity was not serving the story of what became the film [The Girl on the Train].” ChildrenBookStoriesWantedFilmGirlInterestingSubjectsFemaleTrainComplexityServingVery Interesting Author:Erin Cressida Wilson
“I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with very few people about very few things in very narrow terms and yet still believed (and still believe today) that there was something that I was getting myself involved in when I said I wanted to study philosophy.” PeopleWayBelieveSaidStillsPhilosophyFactsTodayWantedSchoolTermInterestingStudyInvolvedConversationVery InterestingDisgruntledInteresting Conversation Author:Jonathon Keats
“Formula One does very well. It is a very interesting asset. Could it be run in a different way? Sure it could be. Could it be improved? I'm sure it could. But all I can say is, it seems to do pretty well.” WayWellsDoeI CanDifferentSeemsRunningInterestingDifferent WaysAssetsFormulasVery InterestingFormula One Author:Martin Sorrell
“I've been to Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait for brief visits at conferences, and they are very interesting countries.” CountryInterestingEgyptConferencesVery InterestingArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisLebanonKuwait Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we have another 100,000 years?" In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.” YearsFoundInterestingMankindThousandScientistCriticalPhrasesThousand YearsEnteringVery InterestingCalculations Author:Werner Herzog
“It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.” IdeasWould BeInterestingDesignObjectsEverydayEveryday LifeVery Interesting Author:Zaha Hadid
“I think the homeless thing is very interesting and I think is an incredible exercise.” ThinkingInterestingExerciseIncrediblesHomelessVery Interesting Author:Robert Greene
“If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they reach a huge audience. And they're very uniform. So right wing, I don't think you can even find an analog in your, but they reach a mass audience, and their view is that the corporations are liberal. Their appeal to the population is, "the country is run by liberals, they own the corporations, they run the government, they own the media, and they don't care about us ordinary people."” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantCountryStatesFactsShowsGovernmentCareRunningInterestingUnitedViewsUnited StatesAudienceMediaHugeMassOrdinaryWingsPopulationDon't CareAppealsCorporationsUniformsOrdinary PeopleVery InterestingRight WingTalk ShowsAnalog Author:Noam Chomsky
“Republican Congressmen and senators will be in a very interesting place, where they have to support the president-elect - president - what will be President [Donald] Trump when they - when they agree with him, try to guide him in certain ways, I think oppose him on some things.” ThinkingWayTryingCertainPresidentInterestingSupportTrumpRepublicanAgreeGuidesSenatorsVery InterestingCongressmanInteresting Places Author:William Kristol
“Miami, which has already aired, has this wonderful blend of Caribbean culture and Latin American culture and Southern American culture (talking about fried chicken). All those combine to make for a very very interesting array of ingredients, restaurants, and the chefs that come there. It also has great seafood, not to mention the glorious citrus that's there. And all those things inform what you do - and they should.” ShouldCultureInterestingTalkingWonderfulGloriousRestaurantsChickensLatinIngredientsSouthernChefVery InterestingAmerican CultureLatin AmericaMiamiSeafoodCaribbeanFried ChickenLatin AmericanCitrus Author:Padma Lakshmi
“The problem with Maigret is he hasn't got a limp, and he hasn't got a lisp, and he hasn't got a French accent, or a particular love of opera... or all those other things that people tend to attach to many fictional detectives. He's just an ordinary guy doing an extraordinary job, in a very interesting time.” PeopleProblemJobsGuyInterestingParticularOrdinaryExtraordinaryOperaAccentsVery InterestingDetectivesLispInteresting Times Author:Rowan Atkinson
“Paris in the mid-'50s was a very interesting place. It was only ten years after the Third Reich had left, and the city was awash with guns, and crime, and racketeering, and all sorts of hangovers from a very difficult time in French history. So it's an interesting time to be a policeman.” YearsLeftDifficultInterestingCitiesCrimeTenGunThirdsParisVery InterestingDifficult TimesPolicemenHangoverInteresting PlacesInteresting Times Author:Rowan Atkinson
“This is all very interesting, but Donald Trump won in an electoral landslide that had nothing to do with the Russians.” InterestingTrumpVery InterestingLandslides Author:Reince Priebus
“It was very interesting [book Fast Food Nation] because all my friends who were in college, [and] this book became almost mandatory for them to read.” BookNationsInterestingCollegeMy FriendsVery InterestingFast FoodInteresting BookFast Food Nation Author:Wilmer Valderrama
“As Latinos, we are so aware of what people go through in order to come to America. It's very interesting to do research on something that's been culturally a part of your existence.” PeopleAmericaOrderInterestingExistenceResearchVery InterestingLatino Author:Wilmer Valderrama
“There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called Violent Politics. It's a record of what are basically guerrilla wars from the American Revolution right up through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.” WellsBookWarInterestingKnownRecordsEventsRevolutionIraqViolentInstanceHistorianAfghanistanWell KnownVery InterestingAmerican RevolutionGuerrillasInteresting Book Author:Noam Chomsky
“I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very interesting for me to see and learn more about Japan.” WellsCultureInterestInterestingKnownHugeIncludingJapanWell KnownVery InterestingHistory And Culture Author:Vladimir Putin
“The things that were happening 30 years ago are now very interesting to people, now very much in style again. There is some kind of 30 year resonance that goes through human culture and expresses itself in different ways.” PeopleWayYearsHumansKindDifferentCultureInterestingStyleHappeningsYears AgoDifferent WaysVery InterestingResonance Author:Owsley Stanley
“We exchanged a couple of ideas and stuff like that, but that's about it. I just think ... consulting on 'Tintin' was very interesting because you try to ... not educate, but inform the animators [about] what the lighting looks like, but [in the end] they do it themselves. I don't actually go and sit there with them. [We] just had a couple of conversations.” ThinkingTryingLooksIdeasEndsStuffInterestingCoupleConversationEducateVery InterestingLightingConsultingAnimator Author:Janusz Kaminski
“It was a very interesting challenge [Heihei role] because he's limited to rooster-y, chicken-type noises, and he goes along on the whole adventure. It just becomes, "If that's how you express yourself, go for it.” IfsWholeChallengesInterestingRolesAdventureTypeNoiseChickensVery InterestingExpress YourselfRoosters Author:Alan Tudyk
“It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas.” IdeasInterestingClearWesternVehicleVery Interesting Author:Sergio Leone
“When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.” WorldBelieveInterestingPositionVery Interesting Author:Byron Katie
“[Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".” IfsMeanBookCareCoursesInterestingDarknessTeachingDon't CareI Don't CareVery InterestingNoonArthurInteresting BookDarkness At Noon Author:Nat Hentoff
“Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to break a major strike. It was reported pretty well in the Chicago Tribune, who pointed out something very interesting. They said that the workers got very little support in Peoria when scabs illegally broke the strike, and that was particularly striking because that whole community had been built up by the union - it was a union-based community.” FirstsWellsLittlesSaidImportantWholeUsedCommunityInterestingBreakSupportIndustryMajorsBuiltUnionsWorkersStrikesTechniqueBrokeChicagoThey SaidVery InterestingManufacturingCaterpillarsScabsPeoria Author:Noam Chomsky
“When you start talking about same-sex marriage, you start talking about abortion, and I think those issues are very very important and very interesting and very right for us to talk about, but when we allow those issues to cannibalize all other issues we find ourselves homeless while we debate about it.” ThinkingImportantSexInterestingTalkingIssuesDebateAbortionHomelessVery Interesting Author:T. D. Jakes
“Paul Ryan and his allies, who include Mike Pence, are congressional conservative Republicans, they have a very clear conservative agenda. The question will be who has to bend more to accommodate the other - Mr. Trump accommodate their ideology, or will they have to accommodate his? And if he can rally audiences behind him, we could see a very interesting intra-party war of a kind we haven't seen in a really long time.” IfsKindLongWarInterestingPartyBehindsAudienceClearHavensTrumpRepublicanLong TimeConservativeIdeologyAgendasAlliesVery InterestingMikeAccommodateReally Long Author:Sam Tanenhaus
“The engagements with the International Investment Council have developed in a very interesting way. It is, again, the point I raised at the beginning.” WayInterestingInvestmentRaisedInternationalEngagementCouncilVery InterestingInteresting Ways Author:Thabo Mbeki
“What I like about [Berthold] Brecht, it's very interesting. When Helene Weigel came over and somebody talked about Lotte Lenya and said "well, she wasn't alienating." And Weigel said "No, no, no. Why, Lotte Lenya was so true - who cares?" She said: "Berti only developed the theory of alienation in order to stop bad acting." I heard her say that. Now that's brilliant.” WellsSaidCareOrderInterestingActingHeardTheoryBrilliantWho CaresVery InterestingAlienationBrechtBad Acting Author:John Hurt
“Something like Windows is still an unbelievable asset but because the world is somewhat phone-centric, it's an asset that has to be managed very carefully to make sure that it's extended, and there are very interesting things that are being done with that.” WorldStillsDoneInterestingWindowPhonesAssetsUnbelievableVery InterestingInteresting ThingsBeing Done Author:Bill Gates
“It is a very interesting world. I'm excited. It is much more optimistic than people think, and there is going to be huge job creation from all these things, and there are going to be huge life improvements.” PeopleThinkingWorldJobsInterestingCreationHugeExcitedImprovementOptimisticVery InterestingJob Creation Author:Ken Moelis