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Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.
Edward St Aubyn
Me
People
Control
Other
Way
Detachment
No Control
Seeing
Had
Over
Forces
How
Were
Been
Any
Any Other Way
Interests
Product
In the early 1970s, I headed to graduate school at the University of Utah and joined the pioneering program in computer graphics because I realized that's where I could combine my interests in art and computer science.
Edwin Catmull
Art
Science
School
Computer Science
Joined
Could
Computer
Headed
Combine
Because
Pioneering
Graduate
Graduate School
Where
Realized
Interests
Graphics
Utah
Early
Program
University
School boards are, for the most part,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.
Eli Broad
People
School
Political
Parents
Few
Group
Other
See
Some
About
Stepping
Stepping Stone
Most
Understand
Well-Meaning
Narrow
Geography
Governance
Up
Office
Few People
Stone
Represent
Board
Boards
Them
Interests
Ethnic
Who
Seat
If you're innocent, you have very little knowledge of the world, and you want to succeed. People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey.
Elijah Wood
Knowledge
You
People
World
Innocent
Will
See
Parasitic
Prey
Very
Want
Little
Succeed
Interests
There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind.
Elijah Wood
People
Mind
Own
Only
Industry
Lot
Interests
Who
I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.
Eliza Coupe
Love
Me
Comedy
Monster
Dramatic
Would
Some
Charlize Theron
Point
Like
Up
Want
Interests
We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests.
Elizabeth Diller
Work
Architecture
Arrogant
Collaborators
Kind
Voices
Budgets
Deadlines
Became
Doing
Were
Really
Interests
Hard
Special
Special Interests
Started
Humbled
Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.
Elizabeth Dole
War
Free
Our
Battleground
Out
Know
Democratic
Democratic Iraq
Terror
Terrorists
Iraq
Efforts
Blow
Stops
Which
Central
Stake
Derail
Interests
Certainly
Serious
Why
Pulling
The terrorists know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts. They understand that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.
Elizabeth Dole
Free
Our
Out
Know
Democratic
Democratic Iraq
Understand
Terrorists
Iraq
Efforts
Blow
Stops
Which
Stake
Derail
Interests
Serious
Why
Pulling
The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.
Elizabeth McCracken
Happiness
Me
Writing
About
Most
Without
Lots
Hit
Lovely
Sentence
Interests
Thing
Things
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.
Ellen Key
War
People
Cause
Statesmanship
Only
Leading
Leading Cause
Understands
How
Interests
Enlist
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.
Elliott Abrams
Our
Analyzing
Pundits
Security
Between
Ideals
Interests
Require
Used
Gap
Suggest
It seems to me that a market exchange rate which is not artificially controlled by central banks enables one to balance the interests of different market players - exporters and importers, investors, borrowers, lenders.
Elvira Nabiullina
Me
Balance
Market
Borrowers
Rate
Seems
Exchange
Exchange Rate
Investors
Enables
Artificially
Controlled
Different
Banks
Which
Central
Interests
Players
I will protect and defend France's vital interests. I will protect and defend Europe.
Emmanuel Macron
Will
France
Vital
Protect
Interests
Europe
Defend
I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me.
Emory Cohen
Character
Me
Happy
People
Fear
Sense
Pain
Down
Characters
Something
Driven
Like
Most
Interests
Deep
Deep Down
Play
Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.
Eric Kandel
Life
You
Circle
Back
Had
Come
Sort
Lot
Interests
Early
I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.
Eric Kandel
Time
Me
Memory
Long
Long Time
Biology
Define
Long-Term
Term
Around
Been
Led
Short
Short-Term
Interested
Converts
Interests
Molecular
Switch
Earlier
I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.
Eric Lindros
Best
Great
Safety
Parents
Looking
Out
Best Interests
Had
Just
Representatives
Happened
Interests
We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
Eric Liu
Positive
Politics
Negative
Looking
Big
Think
Bad
Tricks
Solutions
Tend
Dirty
Ads
Balancing
Am
Campaigns
Which
Meaning
Meaning Of
Interests
Explore
Full
Original
Competing
Here
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
Ernest Dimnet
History
Past
Only
The History Of
Far
Us
Interests
Illuminates
Present
Of course I have other interests, but on the other hand, science is a lifestyle in the sense that it's a combination of profession and hobby.
Erwin Neher
Science
Sense
Other
Lifestyle
Combination
Course
Hand
Hobby
Interests
Profession
The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests.
Eugene Jarecki
Good
People
Example
Prison
Before
Profit
Striking
Complex
Stems
Putting
Perhaps
Most
Industrial
Misunderstanding
Least
Private
Public
Us
Public Good
Interests
Basic
For years, China expected foreign companies not to publicly voice their complaints about hacking or intellectual-property violations in order to protect their broader interests in the country.
Evan Osnos
Country
Complaints
Broader
About
Voice
Hacking
Protect
Foreign
Years
Expected
Order
China
Interests
Companies
Publicly
Violations
My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests.
Ezra Furman
Music
Hell
Most
Judaism
Traditional
Fervent
Interests
Pop
Pop Music
Pair
Two
On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.
Florence Kelley
Home
Protection
Power
Heritage
Other
Brothers
Abroad
She
Hand
Off
Sisters
Polls
Cut
Interests
Awarded
Her
Defend
Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to advance someone's own interests, which creates cynicism.
Frances Hesselbein
Management
Practice
Own
Too
Tricks
Someone
Advance
Bag
Get
Done
Often
Unfortunately
Which
Manipulative
Creates
Interests
Skills
Help
Cynicism
Things
Set
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