One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.
I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.
I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.
Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.
The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
Strategic personal qualities you can base your self-confidence on are those which are interesting for all mankind.
I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.
I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was phenomenally shy with girls.
I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.
In my experience there are billions of dollars available for pieces of shit. As soon as the material distinguishes itself by something interesting, financing becomes a problem.
Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things.
I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.
There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting.
The better-informed we are, the more we can do to make sure what's happening is in our interests and is accountable to us.
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
The whole notion of an embassy is like 'The Other.' That's what makes Washington interesting.
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
