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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. Theres whole swathes of stuff we cant account for.

I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.

Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.

I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.

It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.

As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working.

I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a very sensitive, interesting guy.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

I'll never retire from working; I'll keep my life interesting until I drop dead.

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.

I've always admired Cate Blanchett and the roles she chooses. I think she's got an incredible discipline in a way, with choosing roles that are going to help her grow and bring something interesting to the world.

Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically.

What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting.

I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.

I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

I respect the IBF obligation to fight Povetkin, but I would like the exception to fight David Haye. That is the only title the Klitschkos don't have. We have them all except the WBA, which is why Haye is such an interesting cookie for me to eat.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

It's a really interesting and diverse business. You're a farmer first, then a winemaker, then you're onto marketing and distribution. So it's multi-faceted and really engaging. I've learned more in the last couple years than in the ten prior to that, so it's been pretty interesting.

I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.

Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life

Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.

I'd love to do drama if it was interesting.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.

I've always loved fast vehicles and looking at interesting cars.

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

I don't think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who are good people getting better at being themselves - to me, that's something that's really interesting to watch.