"When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position."
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"Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study."
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"It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one."
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"So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman."
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"I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things."
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"...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat."
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"If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem."
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"Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting."
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"I'm not impressed by any cooks who can brag about a filet mignon. A guy who can take the neck of a shank or can use tripe to make into something delicious is really interesting to me; that's impressive."
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"Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy."
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"Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means."
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"There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth."
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"I was a big fan of Joe's film, Narc, so when you hear there's a script coming over from Joe Carnahan, you know it's going to be interesting because he has such a fresh voice."
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"Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity."
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"The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself."
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"Its really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory."
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"Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question."
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"We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet."
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"We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care."
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"One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles."
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