Top 1200 Special Interests Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.

I'm of the belief that you pursue your interests, you pull it all in, and you sort it out later.

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.

When you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty.

The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

Africa is a very special place, the people are very special there. There is a lot of love, and a lot warmth and a lot of light that is there. I think that if we aren't careful with places like Africa, in terms of the way that we set up our way of living, which now I think that most of the world operates on. If we don't focus on the steps towards creating a more peaceful structure right now, we could possibly wipe out full nations, cultures and species as as we have in the past.

The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces, two Navy Seals, an Afghan Special Forces commando, a lawyer, two fighter pilots and at least two dozen combat veterans and counterinsurgency experts. They jokingly refer to themselves as Team America, taking the name from the South Park-esque sendup of military cluelessness, and they pride themselves on their can-do attitude and their disdain for authority.

To pass on your ideas and have an influence on a team really interests me.

In the United States national security interests to have a working relationship with Russia.

I did get good enough to get on HBO's Young Comedians Special, but I certainly wasn't the person who got launched off of HBO's Young Comedians Special. That would be Ray Romano that year. I had some semi-intelligent jokes, but when people would see me, they would think, "Oh, that's a good writer." No one would ever have said, "Oh, that's a good performer."

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

I see myself in business. I'm good with numbers. It's just something that interests me.

Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.

I was in school for jazz voice, which is the dumbest way to spend $35,000 a year. I just felt like a rip-off of good jazz singers. I didn't feel like I was being anything special, and I always wanted to be special. It's like you know you have something inside you that's gonna make you different than everybody else and make you somebody in this life, but you wish you could figure out what it is, because at most things, you're either mediocre or really, really bad.

You want to have the experience. As far as the creative side, the more I do this, the more I know that it's all about the writing. You got on a film sometimes and it's sort of half-written, and they expect and think that the actor's job is to bring the extra part and the good part. It's not. We're good at saying what other people have written, but for the majority of it, that's about it, comedians aside. It's all in the writing. Whether that's dialogue or character, or whatever, it doesn't matter. As long as they've done something special, than you can do something special.

I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.

The E.U. is an economically right-wing organization that prioritizes the interests of big corporations.

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

Very few politicians in Washington really represent the interests of many people.

The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.

It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.

When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.

At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.

There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind.

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't have interests, it's just that I don't have the time.

The website is me. It's a reflection of my personality and my interests. It's the perfect marriage of my skills and experiences.

I knew that someday, I'd lose the fame. So, I have always kept in touch with my interests.

First and foremost, the duty of a representative is to represent the interests of his constituents.

I think it's easier for African American and white comics to be praised than it is Latinos because they think our culture or our humor is substandard. I mean, I just don't think they want to give us credit. I just don't think that they see us as important enough to be at their level. I'm the longest-produced comedy at Warner Bros. and I don't feel special. They come over and say hello. But everybody's gonna make a lot of money and I don't feel like I'm special to them.

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.

Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.

Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen.

The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.

We're looking out for the financial best interests of the up-and-comer. Everything connects to that.

Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

It is in all our interests to help the world become more peaceful, stable, and prosperous.

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.

There's always an important person who helps support your interests and encourages you.

There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.

I remember before I did my HBO special, Chris [Rock] screamed at me - in a loving way, but still. He was like, "You need to do 200 shows in a row and a month straight on the road before you even think about recording a special!" And I had literally booked two weeks on the road and then went right into the recording. It put me in a panic, but it also made me work harder and made me realize that everyone works differently, and that's okay.

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.

It's time to put the national interest before the interests of Wall Street.

It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.

I think financial markets only look after their own interests.

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

Not every threat to America's national interests can be addressed with military power.

If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.