Top 100 Am Not Interested Quotes
#1. There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.
Alan Ball
#3. I'm a free soul who hates paying attention to things I am not interested in. Consequently, I have rarely been comfortable in the role of 'employee.'
Steven Solomon
#4. I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.
Patti Smith
#5. I watch women continuously. I want them to look beautiful, I am not interested in making them funny, but just beautiful. They have got to look marvelous to please their own men.
Gianni Versace
#6. I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer.
Amanda Lear
#7. In life, we do not give employees enough leeway. If you look around Semco's office, there are plenty of empty desks. The question is - where are these people? I do not have the slightest idea, but I am not interested.
Ricardo Semler
#8. Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more interested in your applying them to your life. If you do not, then you are essentially not in accord with your own mind.
Miyamoto Musashi
#9. I am not interested in having somebody telling that what I have to water down my message or that some advertising person would not like it.
Franny Armstrong
#10. So I like that sound, but I am not interested in being retro.
Stephan Jenkins
#11. Certainly, I read a lot and follow the news. But as a writer, I am not interested in a political story. I am searching for the humanity of the characters. I never set out to write a book about an 'issue.'
Cristina Henriquez
#12. I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
Bobby Fischer
#14. That is such crap. How dare you be so fraudulently flirtatious, cowardly and dysfunctional? I am not interested in emotional fuckwittage. Goodbye.
Helen Fielding
#15. I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.
Ernesto Cardenal
#16. I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.
Lucille Clifton
#17. I am not interested in theories, she had taught herself to say, for fear of being invaded by something other than a dream.
But she was not certain what she meant and not sure that it was true.
Mavis Gallant
#18. I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
Jeanette Winterson
#19. I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't ... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.
Mark Twain
#20. I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.
Ernst Haas
#21. I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will be hard to top, and It's caused me to turn down several good film opportunities because of the schedule.
Dennis Franz
#22. I am not interested in making didactic polemical statements. That is not the way I want to make films. There is a place for polemics, but I don't think that it is in fictional cinema. Fictional cinema works subtly and deeply.
Sally Potter
#23. I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.
David Zindell
#25. I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
Alber Elbaz
#26. I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.
Stephen Frears
#27. I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.
Diane Wakoski
#28. I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.
Agostinho Da Silva
#29. I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.
Helene Hanff
#30. I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.
Albert Einstein
#31. Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse.
Francois Truffaut
#32. I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#33. I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
Carlos Fuentes
#34. I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
Gustave Courbet
#35. I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.
Haile Gerima
#36. But I, for one, am not interested in a harmless truth or a harmless God. Give me a truth that works, and a God who makes me tremble.
Eric Ludy
#37. I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#38. Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.
William J.H. Boetcker
#39. I am not interested in the ephemeral - such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.
Thornton Wilder
#40. I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.
Crystal Eastman
#41. Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.
Sean Parker
#42. Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.
Henry Rollins
#43. I couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#44. Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.
Ken Russell
#45. I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.
Cory Michael Smith
#46. I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
Karen Armstrong
#47. I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.
Peter MacKay
#48. I am not interested in whether you have stood with the great; I am interested in whether you have sat with the broken.
Unknown
#49. And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.
Olivier Martinez
#50. I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.
Lu Tong
#51. I am not a genuine woman, but I am not interested in genuineness.
Candy Darling
#52. I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
Oscar De La Renta
#53. I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.
Bill Brandt
#54. I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.
Nick Cave
#55. I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am not interested in trying desperately to make Art but I am interested in relating to the marvelous extravagance of Life.
John Gutmann
#56. I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.
Marston Morse
#57. I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
Karan Johar
#58. I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
Don Ellis
#59. I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.
Alice Walker
#60. I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
Brian Greene
#61. I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.
Michael Light
#62. I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.
Walt Disney
#63. I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age.
Kim Cattrall
#64. Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.
Scilla Elworthy
#65. I am not interested in being vice president of the United States. I've let the candidate know. If the candidate asks me to be vice president, the answer is I got to say yes. But he's not going to ask me.
Brian Williams
#66. I am not interested in standing for what I believe in, but in standing for the truth. I and my conscience are liars. God's law is truth.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#67. I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
Ralph Bakshi
#68. I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future.
Shirley Williams
#69. I am not interested in communicating something to you, I am interested in communion. Communication means my mind talking to your mind. Communion means I am not a mind, you are not a mind - just your heart melting into my heart, no words.
Rajneesh
#70. I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
Charles Kettering
#71. I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#72. I am not interested in simply working as a director. If I am not making movies that I want to make, that I feel passionate about, or that I feel are hopefully at the level of cinematic quality that I feel they should be then I am not really that interested.
Brad Furman
#73. I am not interested in what is pleasant. I'm interested in what's useful.
Jessica Cluess
#74. I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.
Lee Friedlander
#75. I am not interested in your fine calibrations of empathy or your great mission to protect the river of history. I just to live my own life, and I want to spend it having my own private fucked-up little emotions.
Bee Ridgway
#76. I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great. I am interested in whether you've sat broken.
Unknown
#77. I'm not a man. I have no male pride for you to trick me with, and I am not interested in single combat. That is entirely a weakness of your sex, not mine. I am a woman. I will use any weapon and all weapons to get what I want.
Cassandra Clare
#78. There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.
Jay Neugeboren
#79. I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
Olga Korbut
#80. I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.
Edward Albee
#81. I am not interested in coming to a conclusion or finding the "right" answer, I'm interested in going on a lifelong journey with this God who decided he wanted to walk this same journey with me.
Ricky Maye
#82. I am not interested in wishing hard and having the Universe provide all I need without any work on my part.
Thomm Quackenbush
#83. Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
Donald Judd
#85. I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do - mostly with my time.
Charles Bukowski
#86. I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.
Columba Bush
#87. I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion ... I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.
Wendell Willkie
#88. And above all, I am not interested enough in politics to let them encumber my last days. - DRIEU LA ROCHELLE,
Clive James
#89. I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
Gianni Versace
#90. The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.
Andre Geim
#91. I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Desmond Tutu
#92. I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.
Christopher McQuarrie
#93. I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.
Richard P. Feynman
#94. I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.
Jamaica Kincaid
#95. It's all chop-change chop-change with you. Either go out with me and treat me nicely, or leave me alone. As I say, I am not interested in fuckwittage.
Helen Fielding
#96. I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
Garrison Keillor
#97. I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
T.I.
#98. I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.
Henry Miller
#99. Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.
Henry David Thoreau
#100. The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.
Louise Bourgeois
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