#interest

The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#attentive #been #british #city #europe

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do. ↗

— Karl Urban

#always #attempting #come #concept #dream

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#beings #creating #desperate #desperation #human

My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things. ↗

— Steve Case

#brothers #building #expectation #fascinated #father

It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#because #ends #habits #i #interesting

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#distract #film #help #interest #less

It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I'm a bit of a moving target in that way. ↗

— Stockard Channing

#between #bit #could #different #doing

The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse. ↗

— James Chanos

#back #bad #child #china #companies

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#ambassador #because #china #come #i

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#being #controlling #deliberately #felt #generates