Obsessed Quotes

• People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

  Norman Cousins

  Dream, Fear, Insecure

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• Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

  Abdul Kalam

  Technology, Years, Legacy

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• We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

  Thomas Merton

  Inspirational, Courage, Men

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.312, Image

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• Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Spiritual, Discovery, Doors

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “More Stately Mansions: The Unexpurgated Edition”, p.281, Oxford University Press

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• I'm obsessed with the customer. I am the customer. I really don't think you can go wrong if you don't take your eye off of that. Serving the customer. How does she feel? I feel like the fashion industry has cared a lot about how we look but not about how we feel.

  Sara Blakely

  Fashion, Eye, Thinking

  "Spanx Dallas Grand Opening: Exclusive interview with Sara Blakely". Interview with Natalie Keinan, www.thefashionhour.com. July 9, 2014.

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• I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before 'thin'. And frankly, I'd rather they didn't give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Daughter, Stupid

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• How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

  Tony Judt

  Generations, Wealth, Should

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.30, Penguin

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• If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.13, Mango Media Inc.

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• A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

  Melody Beattie

  Behavior, Codependent, Persons

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.34, Hazelden Publishing

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• I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

  R. L. Stine

  Morning, Sunday, Radio

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

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• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• Any obsession is dangerous.

  Christina Ricci

  Actresses, Obsession, Dangerous

  "Hidden Depths". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2004.

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• For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Life, Dying

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• I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

  David Tennant

  Thinking, Enthusiasm, Geek

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• It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

  Darcey Bussell

  Life, Dance, Selfish

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• I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Thinking, People, Listening

  "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 4, 2015.

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• But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Country, Self, Important

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• Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

  Billy Graham

  Eye, Our World, Doe

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.330, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It doesn't help that we are three generations of actresses, who are always obsessed with losing time. But on the other side, historically, women have much more time on their hands than before. It goes together-the more time we have, the more we're flipping out about how we've got to deal with it.

  Lou Doillon

  Losing, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been - and this is a true story - when I was about nine or 10 years old, I was obsessed with Twin Peaks. I played the theme from Twin Peaks on a little tiny Casio keyboard. People politely applauded. I just fell in love with that song and thought it was very heartbreaking.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One time I went to Berlin and, for some reason, everywhere I was going they had fishbowls. Like a fishbowl by your bed or a fish tank in the bar. They seem obsessed with this IKEA version of nature, which a fishbowl kind of is. They had that going on. I just don't really like having a goldfish by the side of my bed. I feel kind of sad for it, rather than happy. But I thought that was really weird. Maybe they have human fishbowls.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Kind, Reason, Really Weird

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth interrogating in a novel. That probably accounts for what some have called the book's "sweeping" feel, but I don't know that I set out to be cinematic. I wouldn't know how to do that in a novel, specifically.

  Matthew Specktor

  People, Culture, Ridiculous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Neil Young, who isn't really evident when you listen to my music, is probably my favorite of the legends, besides Dylan. They're all a huge influence on me. For me, just following rock history and watching Darkness On the Edge of Town and realizing that's it's okay to be obsessed with a snare sound because Bruce Springsteen was obsessed with a snare sound.

  Adam Granduciel

  Darkness, Realizing, Influence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for many different emotions.

  Ada Limon

  People, Different, Emotion

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I was growing up, until I was 18 or 19, I was totally invested in the classical music world. I had no concept of anything else. The closest thing to a cool band I listened to was Radiohead. Radiohead were the only band I liked in high school. I was just obsessed with classical music, opera, Claude Debussy, and that kind of stuff.

  Katie Stelmanis

  Growing Up, School, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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