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Personal Interest Quotes (page 7)

John Stuart Mill quote: "One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only..."
One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests. John Stuart Mill
What difference does it make how much is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already? You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is."Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy? P. D. James
There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things. Jon Ronson
But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way:1) Babies are illogical.2) Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile.3) Illogical persons are despised. Therefore, babies cannot manage crocodiles. And:1) No interesting poems are unpopular among people of real taste.2) No modern poetry is free from affectation.3) All of your poems are on the subject of soap bubbles.4) No affected poetry is popular among people of taste.5) Only a modern poem would be on the... Steve Martin
Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him. Constantin Stanislavski
In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking. Robert Morgan
Henry Moore quote: "A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of..."
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. Henry Moore
When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans. Elizabeth Moon
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill quote: "One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only..."
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. John Stuart Mill
Aldous Huxley quote: "An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more..."
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley
If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is. Terry Gross
Andrei A. Gromyko quote: "My personality doesn't interest me."
My personality doesn't interest me. Andrei A. Gromyko
Alan Greenspan quote: "Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much..."
Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country. Alan Greenspan

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