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• I was invited by a publisher to write the text for Tantra.[1] Having done some research, what fascinated me was the evidence that many 'tantric' ideas actually came to India from the Mediterranean. It is rather a dry read and debunks reports of orgies and sexual mischief – sorry to disappoint.

  Indra Sinha

  Sorry, Writing, Ideas

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• Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

  Frank Abagnale

  Teenager, Thinking, Years

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• Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

  Jim Rohn

  People, Fascination, Want

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 22, 2016

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• One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

  Andy Warhol

  Fascination, Kind, Certain

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Design, Way, Strange

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• Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

  Reggie Watts

  Technology, Mergers, Fascination

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• Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Father, School, Math

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• If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Strong, Cutting, Sky

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• The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying. Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.

  Adyashanti

  Thinking, Self, Knowing

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• As soon as I was old enough to peer over the worktops, I remember being fascinated by what went on in the kitchen. It just seemed such a cool place, everyone working together to make this lovely stuff and having a laugh doing it.

  Jamie Oliver

  Laughing, Lovely, Kitchen

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• No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

  Donal Logue

  Book, Thinking, Guy

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• Bodybuilding saved my life because I overcame the nerd stage. I got picked on. I was fascinated with power, and then I decided to take that direction because I knew that it would make me feel good about myself

  Lou Ferrigno

  Bodybuilding, Feel Good, Nerd

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• When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.

  Milos Forman

  New York, America, United States

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• If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

  Brian Andreas

  Children, Talking, Wonder

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• I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condemns this, me, I celebrate it.

  Tom Ford

  Cheating, Tired, Wrinkles

  "GRAY IN L.A.: What Older Women Want Advertisers To Know" Sabine Reichel, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2016.

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• I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

  Diane Lane

  Art, Risk, Hollywood

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• I have a girl crush on Rachel Bilson. She's so cute, I just want to put her in my pocket. I love her style, and I'm fascinated by everything she wears, and I think she's a really sweet and kind person. She's cute. I like her.

  Alexandra Chando

  Cute, Crush, Girl

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• I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

  David Suchet

  Writing, Differences, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've become fascinated by the idea that it's really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it's 150 improvements.

  Darrell Hammond

  Years, Ideas, Two

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• As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, People, Journalism

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.83, Crown Archetype

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• As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Sports, Baseball, Book

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• I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Technology, Sound, Computer

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• I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that.

  Rosamund Pike

  Fire, Bigs, Shows

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• Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do?

  Suzanne Weyn

  Bird, Mind, Able

  Suzanne Weyn (2012). “The Bar Code Rebellion”, p.17, Scholastic Inc.

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• I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

  Garry Shandling

  Mother, Father, Men

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