Quotes of: Vested-interest Keyword

When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.

Andrew Dominik

I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies.

Bille August

Jim: Please... Corporal Mitchell: Believe me, I'm not interested.

28 Days Later...

Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

Aaron Cohen

People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics.

Terry Zwigoff

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

Walter Koenig

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

Grace Paley

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

Richard Serra

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

Crystal Eastman

If the distinction is not held too rigidly nor pressed too far, it is interesting to think of Shakespeare's chief works as either love dramas or power dramas, or a combination of the two. In his Histories, the poet handles the power problem primarily...

The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 2

Ten percent tithes is unbiblical; God is not interested in numbers.

Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ: The Language of Heaven

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

Blindsight

There are so many people who want to be the next person on 'Home and Away,' or they just want to be on the cover of a magazine, and they don't really understand the craft. They're not interested in theatre, they're not interested in the art.

Gillian Alexy

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

Allan Quatermain

Being interesting isn't important. But being happy is. As well as being a person you're proud of

The Manifesto on How to be Interesting

It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.

Mary McDonnell

I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium.

Gerard Debreu

If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

Nathan Myhrvold

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

Octavia E. Butler

I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'

P. J. O'Rourke

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

Sam Shepard