Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time."
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Not Interested
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U.G. Krishnamurti
Philosopher
"The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time."
Sebastian Stan
Actor
"I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size."
Crystal Reed
Actress
"I'm not interested in fame at all."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past."
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"I'm not interested in being liked."
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"Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more."
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"I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director."
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"The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth..."
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"I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love."
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"I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy"
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"I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I can take a portrait of."
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"I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent."
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"The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria."
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"Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets."
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"The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important."
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"I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'"
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"I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do."
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"I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future."
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"I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me."
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"There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood."
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"I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums."
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"I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story."
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"I'm not interested in just putting out one hit."
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"The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism."
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