#interest

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting. ↗

— Adam Clayton

#age #boundaries #buy #creativity #early

There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new. ↗

— Adam Clayton

#archaeology #collector #earliest #example #finding

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#children #had #i #i think #interest

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#am #because #books #changing #constant

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#finding #going #interest #joke #kid

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey. ↗

— Steven Chu

#baseball #basketball #children #developed #football

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#bill gates #finds #gates #hire #interest

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older. ↗

— Jill Clayburgh

#bugs #get #how #interesting #me

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries. ↗

— Helen Clark

#been #concentration #countries #create #currently

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues. ↗

— Helen Clark

#human #human rights #interest #international #issues