#interest

An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex. ↗

— Edgar Wallace

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I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. ↗

— Emma Watson

#degree #fulfill #history #i #interested

Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#assured #based #best #best interests #eventual

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. ↗

— Jackie Weaver

#because #been #bored #come #doing

It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic activity. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#actual #economic #economic activity #exactly #gets

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country. ↗

— Noah Webster

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The French had an obvious financial interest in Iraq. That's been documented. They were involved financially in Iraq and in some cases, I think with weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#cases #destruction #documented #financial #financially

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#interest #library #makes #takes

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

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Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#details #exactly #fast #get #goes