There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

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.

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations that a young person who either marries or dies is sure of being kindly spoken of.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no like 'I'll be the rock star you be the adulating fan.'

When I grew up what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself in a sense in the mid 1960s really when I first heard composers like Terry Riley and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Yeah I've been interested in music since I was a teenager always writing songs.

As a boy I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

When I was a teenager I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

Develop interest in life as you see it in people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests I forget to worry.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

I've always been interested in making movies.

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky briefly in the '90s and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.