I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.
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I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, pe... EDGAR WINTER I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God. JOHN SHELBY SPONG He's a complete and total psychopath. I don't mean that in the criminal sense, of course, but in a p... I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. JOHN MAYER I realized that people won't take action unless it's for their own benefit, or as long as they're no... MJ CHRISTINE In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen cont... MINORU YAMASAKI I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experien... ELVIS MITCHELL I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people pri... SAMM LEVINE So it was primarily a desire to write about that period in one's life rather than that period in his... JONATHAN COE I did some pretty crazy stuff that I never thought I would do, for the sake of a movie, like surfing... LEVEN RAMBIN Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more i... ALFRED HITCHCOCK These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I was very adamant about using everyday people in the show. If we did something in a diner, I wanted... GEORGE DURAN They'll be an attraction in themselves. People still like to come and watch the fish being landed, a... GEORGE HICKS (There are so many If's like Why's, why there, if there... but why?? Look again I say this word!) DEYTH BANGER In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've... COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays t... SAM RILEY People have become so selfish that they no longer care for others, or anything other than their own ... SRI SATHYA SAI BABA When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because... MICHAEL GRAVES I'm no longer interested in having executives supervise other people. I want everyone to be doing th... JOE ROTH I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense... CHRISTOPHER GUEST I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that ha... ALEXA VEGA Was the heat from fuel from two airplanes sufficient to compromise the steel in that building? (sic)... LOUIS FARRAKHAN I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense... WILLIAM GOLDING I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the... VICTOR SALVA I don't know of any other beverage or herb or anything like that that would help people perk up in t... JAMES LANE I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own ... IAN ANDERSON I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattl... ANNA FARIS They are so caught up in their happiness that they don't realize I'm not really a part of it. I am w... DAVID LEVITHAN Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through ... MICHAEL MORPURGO I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu... HUNTER HAYES I have so many wonderful people in my life. I've never had any major physical problems or an acc... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense... CHRISTOPHER GUEST Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same pe... RUPERT FRIEND The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hof... JACKIE CHAN They were everywhere. They were in the basements of buildings, churches, office buildings and people... EDWARD REYNOLDS The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like ... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. JOHN KEATS I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfille... PERSIS KHAMBATTA For me, I was in awe of how people can change things by putting their own touch or spin on things. DEREK LOOMIS If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited ... JOHN GLENN I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically ... JON RONSON I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't lig... EVE ARNOLD Of course I want to have a deliciously seductive story on the surface which will keep people engaged... DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answe... TARYN SIMON Landlords need to be more accountable for the people in their buildings. It is not OK to have four o... DAN BECKER I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and suck... LOIS TILTON People are interested in Haiti in a negative sense, like when we have to stop drugs from flowing thr... CARINE ROENEN I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have somet... IDA B. WELLS I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is ri... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is ri... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.�... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did. NATHAN LANE I have never seen nothing like that, never heard anything like that. There's no other way to tell me... EARL HOLMES I had the advantage of making a movie about a man who was an artist himself, and an artist of the sh... JAMES MANGOLD I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answer... DEAN KAMEN So many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not... DAVE EGGERS Prior to the age of telegraphy, the information-action ratio was sufficiently close so that most peo... NEIL POSTMAN Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their exp... HERBIE HANCOCK I didn't have to [start playing again]. But I did it with the benefit of trying to help an organizat... MICHAEL JORDAN Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin... ALGERNON SYDNEY Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin... ALGERNON SIDNEY I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, th... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in th... KAZUO ISHIGURO There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoi... MEG ROSOFF The UAE people are not particularly interested in anything other than making money. That has been th... CONRAD RAABE You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the painting... H. R. GIGER There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there ar... TERRY GOODKIND I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is someb... ERICA JONG We build speculative buildings in communities that we think are the kinds of places that people want... LARRY CALLAHAN Where 'er thou art be thou (w)holy there. MURRAY I. MESZAROS When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and se... CLINT EASTWOOD I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people w... RUBY ROSE The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympa... LYDIA MILLET I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o... ADAM DRIVER Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that ... ROLLO MAY There's just nothing funnier or crazier than that - doing your Broadway debut as Spider-Man in &... JAKE EPSTEIN I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is t... ASHLEE SIMPSON The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you ... KATE KLISE I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the... WILLIAM BOOTH I like drawing people in the airport or on the bus or in venues. I like catching people in the momen... JAMES BAY I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doin... ELI ROTH The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day ou... JULES SHEAR I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I w... MAC DEMARCO At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in the... VINCE STAPLES She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're ... PAT BENATAR I was surprised that I did as well as I did, but I'm hoping to do better in the next election. I did... KATHY PASTRYK I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of musi... LAURA MVULA It's so exciting to see how interested kids are in the music program. These kids are the people that... HEIDI DALLIN In my life, I got a haircut junior year of college that was a real wash-'n-go type of situation.... JESSICA ST. CLAIR
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It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
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Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
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To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him. BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
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