Fascinated Quotes - Page 30

• Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

  Kevin Spacey

  Wings, People, Democracy

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• I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

  Terry McMillan

  Character, Trying, Levels

  "Author Terry McMillan, Interrupted by Life". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. July 28, 2005.

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• Im fascinated by anything that deals with the unexplained. I love any show that totally makes me want to know more. How did they build these pyramids? Why did they find these carvings that look like spaceships?

  Elena Satine

  Pyramids, Looks, Want

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

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• I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

  Edward P. Jones

  Awful, Humans, Human Beings

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• During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings

  Joseph Pisani

  Color, Youth, Painting

  Article by Natalie Isenring, Tages Anzeiger, January 24, 2008.

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• My dad was always fascinated and amused by Trump, so I learned to be fascinated and amused by Trump.

  Willie Geist

  Dad, Trump, Amused

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• People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach. My jump gave them an opportunity to come along for the ride. They could watch live on their screens how someone rises all the way up into the stratosphere.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Opportunity, People, Way

  "It's Never Been about the Thrills". Interview with Lukas Eberle and Janko Tietz, www.spiegel.de. November 1, 2012.

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• I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

  Umberto Eco

  Character, Interesting, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.

  Vito Acconci

  Space, World, Language

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 2007.

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• I have always been fascinated by structure and by exploring its possibilities. Throughout my life as a designer and maker, my structures have progressively become lighter and lighter, to the point now where I wonder how I can just sell the idea without any physical form. This seems to parallel human development where, as our bodies age, physicality is replaced by conceptualising and spirituality.

  David Trubridge

  Ideas, Age, Development

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• I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.

  Sasha Grey

  People, Choices, Natural

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• I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

  Michael Birch

  Running, Ambition, Starting Up

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• I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.

  Jack W. Szostak

  Desire, Degrees, Intense

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• People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling.

  Alexandra Cassavetes

  Ideas, People, Temptation

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• I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Thinking, Literature, Has Beens

  "Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

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• [I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Numbers, Stupidity

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• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  Laura Marling

  Country, Book, Night

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

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• I love talking about the Kennedy assassination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it.

  Bill Hicks

  Lying, Government, Talking

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• I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

  Richard Dawkins

  Age, Mars, Venus

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. October 21, 2009.

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• I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

  Clare Balding

  Brain

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• Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed decisions. You know, increasing their awareness. And also, trying to encourage people to be more fascinated with information and science and knowledge of all sorts, instead of, you know, it's a generalization, but the encouragement by society, the reflections that society gives us, which is media, television, art - anything, really.

  Reggie Watts

  Encouragement, Art, Reflection

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• None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it onscreen.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Real, World, Violence

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I'm fascinated by politics. I love watching everyone from Neil deGrasse Tyson to Lawrence Krauss to people like Richard Dawkins and Noam Chomsky on YouTube.

  Michael Buble

  People, Youtube, Tyson

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years, and I said that my career came to an appropriate close, and I still loved photography. Not everybody who spends their career at anything ends up fascinated and involved with it.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Years, Careers

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• Were studying in Philippians, and Im trying to figure out this passage, Paul says I want to know Christ. What does that mean? See, hes fascinated by Jesus. I think thats a desire Id like to have on my heart, to know more about Jesus.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Heart, Mean

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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