At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.
Layne Staley

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
Richard M. Nixon

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose Bierce

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
John Maynard Keynes

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
Ralph Nader

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.
Louis Farrakhan

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
Yo-Yo Ma

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
George Santayana

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

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand Russell

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.
Spike Lee

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
Howard Zinn

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
David Bowie

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
Lewis Mumford

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Marc Chagall

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process.
Lynette Fromme