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• Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.

  Akira Toriyama

  Military, Building, Particular

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• Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can’t let people catch you staring at them. If people catch you, they treat you like a first-class criminal. And maybe they’re right to do that. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don’t want you to see.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Class, People, Trying

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Education, School, Common

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• Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

  The Edge

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Careers

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• I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Jobs, Ebay, Sides

  "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

  Edward Abbey

  Favorite Hobby, World, Saving

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

  Rick Riordan

  Death, Favorite Hobby, My Favorite

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• Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hunting, People

  "Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 25, 2009.

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• I don't think there's a hobby that I haven't tried on.

  Jennie Garth

  Thinking, Havens

  "Jennie Garth: 'When I Was 17'". www.seventeen.com. August 20, 2010.

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• There is nothing - no program, no hobby, no vice, no crime - that does not 'create jobs'. Tsunamis, computer viruses and shooting convenience store clerks all 'create jobs'. So that claim misses the plot; it applies to all so is an argument in favor of none. Instead of an argument on the merits, it is an admission that one has no such arguments.

  Chris Horner

  Jobs, Missing, Clerks

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• My hobby is fishing for girls.

  Tom Kaulitz

  Girl, Fishing

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• That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.

  Felicia Day

  Mean, Dreamer, Rebel

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• One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Oboes, Mines, Has Beens

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• I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

  Elvis Presley

  Girl, Pastime

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• Some people say they're retired and it means they have time to do things they want to do. I have always had the privilege to engage in my hobbies as if they were work. And they are. So hobbies are work, but work that you want to do; they are play. Retirement? That sounds like you're going to passively walk into the sunset and disappear.

  Diane Keaton

  Retirement, Sunset, Mean

  "Diane Keaton on Woody Allen's feet, Al Pacino's nose" by Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. April 28, 2014.

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• All Chess players should have a hobby

  Savielly Tartakower

  Player, Should Have, Chess

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• When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.

  Laurence Sterne

  Strong, Horse, Farewell

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.73, eBookIt.com

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• A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Views, Sun, Results

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Being charming is my hobby.

  Richelle Mead

  Charming

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.152, Penguin

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• Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.

  Paavo Haavikko

  Writing, Profession

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• At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

  Aldo Leopold

  Degrees, Useless, Firsts

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

  Rick Baker

  Dream, Able

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

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• I'm not a professional comedian. Nobody comes to my comedy shows. That's just a little hobby.

  David Rees

  Comedian, Littles, Comedy

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Back then all I cared about was rhyming and making beats. That was my trade, my hobby.

  Rakim

  Rhyming, Beats, Trade

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• That boy needs a hobby." "Stalking is a hobby." "So is serial killing.

  Darynda Jones

  Boys, Needs, Killing

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Death and the Girl Next Door”, p.18, Macmillan

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