It's interesting to me, this sense of legacy and how far we can get from our roots. I find it really interesting what gets passed down, and how arbitrary that can be.
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Related Once you get into it, it's really interesting and you can see how much you free up officers. KEVIN ADAMS Our goal is to find out what happened, how it happened and [determine] how we can prevent this from ... JOHN COTTREAU What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attribute... LINUS TORVALDS How fast can a crook get in and out of a house? How fast can you kick a door open? That fast. MARK LUMPKIN Oh, believe me, it will be one hell of a fight. I guarantee you, ... I'll do everything I can. It wi... TOM TANCREDO The key is how often you are feeling this sense of distress, how bad it gets, and how long it lasts;... ABBY ARONOWITZ It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come aw... MARYA HORNBACHER Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing. BRENT SPINER It's interesting how much you can tell about someone from their friends. LINDSEY KELK I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I ... AMY BLOOM Why pay dollars if you can get it online for free? I think it'll be interesting to see how that shak... BEN BAJARIN Things like the movie 'Memento' are interesting to me because our memories of the things we&... PAULA HAWKINS To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that mea... EMIL ZATOPEK It's really interesting how music can knock down a wall and be an open connection between you an... PHILLIP SWEET You have written that the best and the longest lasting victory over the enemy can be attained by hit... RAVI RANJAN GOSWAMI What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. EMIL ZATOPEK It's a real big test for our character, and how we handle it will be very interesting. KYLE KALIAN It's our first meeting since the worlds, so it will be interesting to see what they look like, and h... HAYLEY WICKENHEISER It's kind of nice to come back to Windsor to get this honor. It's always interesting to me how many ... JEAN ROBINSON What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperativ... TOBIN BELL Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting ... JOAN DIDION As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and... CATHERINE HARDWICKE Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of e... JEREMY IRONS I find it interesting that such a wealthy person could be so down to earth. KYLE CIPPERLEY It was really interesting to see how people view themselves and how they see themselves in the commu... DONNA MEYERS I don't think we should be trying to control how people experience art. They can see it on a screen ... STEVEN SODERBERGH I have to see how that turns out, or what turns out with that. Yes, it certainly will be interesting... CAROLINE FRISBY It's interesting how interesting uninteresting people get after a few drinks. STUART BLYTHE I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the ... TEMPLE GRANDIN They aren't common, but enormously interesting. How can it be that you've been together that long an... ARTHUR ARON I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you... STEVE MARTIN I'm trying to understand cosmology, why the Big Bang had the properties it did. And it's int... SEAN M. CARROLL We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and int... ALEXANDER KARP Misunderstanding me probably means that I am Alien. (As far from here I can tell you sounds pretty i... DEYTH BANGER It will be interesting to see how they finesse that. DONNA JAEGERS Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens... EULA BISS Down in Florida it was an older audience, and it was interesting to see how they responded to things... BEA ARTHUR What I find interesting about it is the richness of the archive and the challenge of figuring out ho... ANDREW GARRETT We always come here because you can find fun and interesting things. CATHY MITCHELL We just wanted to all work together and collaborate, and that was the main impetus informing the rec... DAVE JOHNSTON Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by... ERICA JONG I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody ... MARK TWAIN I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody... MARK TWAIN I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something o... AARON STANFORD Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing th... MARY ROACH For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a... BALTASAR KORMAKUR It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's... K'NAAN It's really interesting. I want to learn how to write the different shapes and stuff. JENNIFER MCNAMARA It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and ... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON It's an affectionate portrait of this place, ... I thought it would be interesting to see the amazin... GARTH JENNINGS It is interesting how one word can spark memories that one believes she has buried beyond recognitio... MANDY NACHAMPASSACK-MALONEY There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn... MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL It's interesting how the view from abroad can shift and remake perceptions of homegrown celebrit... TINA BROWN Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I ... JOAKIM NOAH We changed things around a little, and it worked to our advantage. It was interesting how things tur... LAURA TICHY A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy. BEAU MIRCHOFF Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't real... JEREMY IRONS I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what ... MARC ALMOND America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be inter... E. M. FORSTER Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar th... CHRISTINE MONTROSS Tactics and Checkmate in 1 move, show me some interesting stuff about chess... so far I can say that... DEYTH BANGER It sounds pretty interesting. This kind of theatre and dance really appeals to me. JENNIFER HENSON It'll be interesting to see how he does. We don't know how he'll react. DANNY STRUCK We are always taking a hard look at how life was in the past in coming up with interesting subject m... BENNY FINE The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of bei... HENRY JAMES It's really important for us to see how far we can take this now. We're just trying to keep winning ... HEDO TURKOGLU My goals may seem impossibly far-fetched when really they're not. Break them down into steps a... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH It will be interesting to see how it plays out, BRIAN TOWNSEND It should be a pretty interesting year with the elections. You have to watch how the council votes d... COUNCILMAN HAL MARTIN I want to study human... madness... cruelty... agression... anger... craziness... and other features... DEYTH BANGER I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun... RYAN GOSLING Green Inferno was the truth, everything can be saw, how we were in the privous centuries, how did we... DEYTH BANGER Economists have their own tools to judge how far a dollar goes coming in from a tourist, a skier or ... DAN LARSON A few years ago you couldn't find a star who wasn't baring her navel. One thing that's so interestin... SALLY SINGER Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that... EMILY MORTIMER I really don't know that, how much they'll let me play. I think I showed I can be a third-down and s... CODY GLENN I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and ... ANTHONY BOURDAIN Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the ... ETHAN ZUCKERMAN I think I just said it, but I think it’s worth repeating. They gave me hope that there is good in ... ROBERT UTTARO I am really proud of how far this team came this year. I really want to give our players a lot of cr... BILL CALLAHAN Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting... JOEL EDGERTON How they're going to pull it off will be interesting. BRUCE PERENS I don't like to use the word 'legacy' because it sounds a bit like I'm full of mysel... JASON DAY For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't… you know, it's inter... JON STEWART How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? VINCENT VAN GOGH Look around you, Jayavar," she continued. "See how the temple inspires? How the dreams of its makers... JOHN SHORS It's interesting how much you can do in winter even with cold temperatures. GREG VLAMING The more we look into this, the more interesting it gets. MALISSA BURNETTE There is this cat and mouse game that plays out over time where our team comes up with new and inter... JEREMY STOPPELMAN It'll be interesting to see how Bonds performs and reacts to all this controversy and attention and ... ALEX CZAJKOWSKI I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go. RICHARD FEYNMAN The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was jus... SHIRI APPLEBY We need to regroup. It's going to be interesting to see what type of character we have on this team,... CRAIG PIPPEN This group is inexperienced, but once they start practicing together more, I think the sky is the li... RICK PITINO We all sense the urgency of coming to a positive result by the time we get to Hong Kong, and certain... ED LOYD You will never really get, how really everything works in my world. How the colour of the sky change... AKSHAY VASU If he gets the opportunity to play, it might get interesting. He might be starting. CHIPPER JONES When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved... VICKY MCCLURE It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on... SHERYL CROW I find infidelity interesting because it's so revelatory about people. It's this really sile... JUNOT DIAZ
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