#rests

If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a good chance of minimizing, perhaps, avoiding the us versus them mentality. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#game-theory #interests #leadership #political-philosophy #leadership

Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence of cholesterol. She's fascinated by cholesterol. Says it's very beautiful: bright yellow. She says Ang is wholly uninterested. He has no idea what she does. I check this out for myself. 'What does Jane do?' I ask. 'Science,' he says vaguely. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#cholesterol #disparate-interests #husbands #lack-of-interest #married-couples

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#life #passions #writing #life

How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it? ↗

— Simon Cheshire

#life #passion #life

My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#else #had #his #husband #i

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#acting #interests #talents #thing #use

This drug coverage program was clearly designed by Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of the drug and insurance industries. America's seniors were an afterthought. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#america #clearly #congress #coverage #designed

This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#belongs #corporate #families #going #government

This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#duty #effort #fact #fear #germany

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#cohesive #combined #consisting #government #greater