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People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest. -- Edward Norton
I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride. -- Bill Paxton
Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy. -- Dan Brown
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. -- P. T. Barnum
Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us. -- Andrew Miller
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. -- Anna Julia Cooper
In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock. -- Damon Runyon
True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest. -- Asger Jorn
Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories. -- Jacques Perrin
That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities. -- Casey Kasem
No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war. -- John Haynes Holmes
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. -- George Santayana
I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. -- Casey Kasem
I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet. -- Terry Pratchett
The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over the corporate interest, the military interest, and the materialistic interests. -- Michael Franti
Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.' -- Robert Winston
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost. -- Felix Adler
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests. -- Isaac Asimov
As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest. -- Archibald MacLeish
If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the picture will be really too weak to consider at all and the human interest would be entirely lost. -- Howard Pyle
The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands. -- Thomas Nixon Carver
The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds of war gathering ominously in the background... For my money, few periods are so replete with human interest. -- Ben Bernanke
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other. -- John William Draper
The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the zoo, or by threats to endangered species; but developments in farming techniques that deprive millions of animals of freedom of movement go unreported. -- Peter Singer
... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voyeurism, human interest, cinÃ©ma vÃ©ritÃ©, a good belly chuckle, a sympathetic smile, a raised eyebrow, disguised contempt. -- Zadie Smith
People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become. -- Dan Chaon
Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work. -- Diego Giacometti
In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few basic human problems. It must also be taken into consideration that people are people regardless of who they are or what their backgrounds may be. There are certain deep universal appeals to human interest and to these human nature always responds. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through the human interest of the situation photographed or by calling our attention to some commonplace but fascinating thing we have never noticed before or it can be achieved by looking at an everyday thing in a new interesting way. -- Alexey Brodovitch
Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly -- Stewart Brand
My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity. -- Dana Snyder
We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. -- Aimee Mullins
Old Fashioned' can expect strong interest because it taps into a universal human longing. -- David A. R. White
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void. -- Jean Rostand
I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me. -- Jerzy Kosinski
The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee. -- Robert Falcon Scott
If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth. -- Mos Def
New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues. -- Helen Clark
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine. -- Aimee Mullins
If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature. -- Danny Meyer
My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony. -- Dalai Lama
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more. -- David Hockney
Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men. -- Isaac Barrow
I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork. -- Greg Graffin
They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character. -- Jeri Ryan
Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being. -- Markus Wolf
We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability. -- Warren Christopher
Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy. -- Desmond Tutu
Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive -- Samuel Johnson
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves. -- Elbert Hubbard
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable. -- Graham Greene
Being a goaltender is not a job that would interest any normal, straight-thinking human. -- Gump Worsley
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. -- H. L. Mencken
It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved. -- Emily Giffin
The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. -- Karl Marx
Every human being should show the greatest interest in beekeeping because our lives depend upon it. -- Rudolf Steiner
She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls. -- Thomm Quackenbush
Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever. -- George Orwell
Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance. -- Ordway Tead
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. -- Georges Rouault
We are all human magnets. Our deeds, attitudes and thoughts attract in kind. Gets back with interest exactly what he sends. -- Sterling W Sill
The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest. -- Dean Mitchell
I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times. -- Vikas Swarup
Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest. -- Moby
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. -- William J. Brennan
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment. -- William Sloane Coffin
Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in. -- Jakob Dylan
I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.' -- Vikas Swarup
Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted. -- Robert Henri
But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
[Sex] is of real interest to every human being and so why gloss over it, and it's fun, it's interesting, it has so many dimensions. -- Khushwant Singh
There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth. -- Paul Broca
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. -- Max Born
It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else. -- Sue Grafton
A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves. -- Lydia M. Child
There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization. -- George Fownes
Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable. -- Nayef Al-Rodhan

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