Quotes of: Common-interests Keyword

Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It's very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner - it just happens to have grates. You shouldn't be intimidated ...

Bobby Flay

We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and rules the day.

Gary Hopkins

My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.

Amy Bloom

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Anthony Burgess

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom ...

William Robertson Smith

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

Milton Friedman

I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.

Sal Albanese

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Chanakya

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

Gerhard Schroder

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

Gertrude Stein

Personally, I'm not interested in getting more money for what I do; I'm just interested in more money being put into the production.

Richard Armitage

People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.

Lawrence M. Krauss

I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

Bjork

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

Bjork

My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing to be interested in. I'm just not particularly interested in pop culture. I think I am more interested in things that have a settle...

Simon Winchester

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.

Burr

People are not interested in truths; they are interested in inventions.

Seeds of Transformation: Choosing to Live an Authentic Life

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.

Melody Beattie

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Kofi Annan

My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts.

Steve McQueen