It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
Jeremy Bentham

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.
Jim Henson

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
Jane Addams

I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.
Isabelle Adjani

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
Henry A. Wallace

Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.
Courtney Love

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

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
John Bonham

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
Ty Cobb

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
Muhammad Iqbal

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
Muhammad Iqbal

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.
Jock Sturges

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.
Lou Reed

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
Emile M. Cioran

I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
Harrison Ford

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
Harrison Ford

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
Barbara Walters

It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
Buffalo Bill

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.
Tim McGraw