"It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting."
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"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."
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"I try to find a way to make it comfortable or interesting or funny to me."
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"I've always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don't see any interesting alternatives."
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"If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting."
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"I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films."
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"The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art."
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"The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them."
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"I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more."
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"If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long."
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"I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting."
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"One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment."
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"It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs."
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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 most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission."
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"Clothing sizes are weird, they go: small, medium, large and then extra large, extra extra large, extra extra extra large. Something happened at large, they just gave up. They were like, 'I'm not doing any more adjectives; you just keep putting extras on there.' We could do better than that: small, medium, large, whoa, easy, slow down, stop it, interesting, American."
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"I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting."
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"Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort."
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"What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone."
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"We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting."
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"A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion."
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