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"Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of mankind. And everyone here will ultimately be judged - will ultimately judge himself - on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort."
"Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be discovered."
"I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point."
"The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other."
"I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?"
"When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie."
"There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present."
"Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting."
"One of the interesting things about "outsidership" is that underneath it there's a longing to belong. I just wish the thing I refused to belong to - the species, Western capital culture - was a little more respectable. My one true relaxation is my flotation tank, in which I can either meditate or just drift off."
"The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation,... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work."
"Isn't it interesting that eating a banana is somehow comical."
"We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner"
"Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life."
"During the years I was with Andy Kirk we starved almost. I remember not eating for practically a month several times. But we were very, very happy because the music was so interesting, and you forgot to eat, anyway."
"The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged."
"For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms."
"I loved Pluto. I was totally fascinated by Pluto. When I started in astronomy, I started looking at this region of the sky because I thought it was so interesting out there."
"I always had a lot of responsibilities. I just didn't take them. I just decided to take care of my responsibilities, live up to them. That's a pretty interesting job. It's harder than being heavyweight champion of the world."
"When you look at a character and you're like, "Wow, that's really unexplored terrain for me and there's a lot happening here and different angles to him," and you're not sure what his motives are, you've got a good shot at working towards something interesting."
"To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up word origins, to analyze closely the work of writers you admire, to read not only contemporaries but writers of the past, to learn at least one foreign language, to live an interesting life outside of writing."
