#interests

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry. ↗

— Jack Dempsey

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What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality. ↗

— William Devane

#huge #i #interests #liked #me

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

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So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#back #been #carrying #china #history

It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously. ↗

— Harrison Ford

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In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

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What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. ↗

— Simone Weil

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But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

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