Fascinated Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Mother, Quality, Portraits

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• My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Mother, Necks, Cranes

  Gary Shteyngart (2014). “Little Failure: A Memoir”, p.45, Random House

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• I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.

  Amanda Palmer

  Teenager, Thinking, Rocks

  "Amanda Palmer: 'Thank God my best friend's a therapist'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.

  Chip Heath

  Mean, Experts, Nuance

  "Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck". Book by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, 2006.

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• I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never our goal to frustrate, but it is worth noting that the people who were constantly agitated were the self-righteous, religious elite, the rich, and the powerful. But the people who were fascinated by him, by his love and grace, were folks who were already wounded and ostracized — folks who didn't have much to lose, who already knew full well that they were broken and needed a Savior.

  Shane Claiborne

  Religious, Jesus, Powerful

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.133, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I was fascinated by movies from age 12.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Age

  "Cannes 2012: Jean Paul Gaultier On His Favorite Films". The Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com.

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• I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

  Eli Roth

  Suicide, Hero, Views

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• A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Kids, Technology, Law

  "Why gravity director Alfonso Cuarón will never make a space movie again" by Caitlin Roper, www.wired.com. October 01, 2013.

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• When the audience isn't laughing, that doesn't mean that they're not fascinated.

  Susan Messing

  Mean, Laughing, Audience

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• Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

  Bianca Jagger

  Country, Philosophy, Role Models

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• But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Class, Messed Up

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• I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

  Dylan Moran

  Landscape, Lifetime, Position

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• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  Angelina Jolie

  Usual, Scripts, Behavior

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• Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind's surface-play affects you very little.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Play, Mind, Littles

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• The more fascinated we become with the toys of this world, the more we forget that there's another world to come.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  World, Toys, Forget

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• The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

  Joseph Murray

  Rejection, Skins, Host

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• I have always been fascinated by the life cycle, the way skin metamorphoses over time. I am mesmerized by skin and that's why I've been attracted to the nude. I do think people show their soul when they are stripped down psychically. There is something wondrous that happens when we relate on that level - and I am interested in that depth.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Thinking, People

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• My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work has become more direct, perhaps reflecting the fact that for the first time in my life I feel really free. I have been fascinated with wings all my life. I have had an obsession with transcendence, the need to push forward and metaphorically fly.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Artistic Life, Wings

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• My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.

  Arizona Muse

  Mother, Desert

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• I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

  Emilie Autumn

  Next, Repeats, Happens

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• Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

  Adam Savage

  Appreciate, Stories, Diving

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• Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.

  Fergie

  Rap, Kids, Gun

  "Fergie admits drugs shame!" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2006.

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• People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.

  Gary Saul Morson

  Philosophy, Lying, Book

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• I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok.

  David Gerrold

  Europe, Ideas, Australia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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