Narrow Interests Quotes

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

No amount of extra civil servants recruited to deliver Brexit will make up for a lack of rational debate or for political judgments distorted by a desire to sound tough in order to appeal to narrow sectional interests.

What Donald Trump is doing is serving the polluters and serving a narrow group of ideological interests. That's not leadership. That's abdication of responsibility, and this step does not make America first. It makes America last.

I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.

I swear, the bigger your muscles get, the duller you are. You become fascinated with carbs and protein and ripped abs and things that are just not interesting at all.

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.

I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.

The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.

The Internet shows me how limited my interests are - there's everything out there and I'm still looking at what the weather's going to be like in Scotland.

When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.

A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.

The only person who can get a country as diverse as ours to rise above narrow interests is the President of the United States.

My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic's labour.

Equal constituencies' sound fair. So why is Labour so against the constituencies bill and why do we call it gerrymandering? Because, like so much Tory rhetoric, it sounds good, but if we look beyond the soundbites it becomes clear that it covers policies that promote narrow sectional interests.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.

Seriously, until I was 16 or 17, I didn't care about anything other than ESPN.