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• I'm Michael Jackson-obsessed. All I watch is 'Moonwalker' - it's my favorite movie of all time.

  Pete Wentz

  Watches, My Favorite, All Time

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• Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.

  Jason Reitman

  Growing Up, Yoga, People

  "Jason Reitman: 'Growing up sucks, doesn't it?'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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• People are just obsessed with other people's lives. I don't know whether it's kind of a way to escape their own, or something to follow I really couldn't tell you.

  Lauren Conrad

  People, Way, Kind

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• I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.

  Lauren Conrad

  Style, Eras, Really Cool

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• Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.

  Umberto Eco

  Memories, Men, Youth

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• I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.

  Drake

  Perfection, Want, Advantage

  "On the Cover: Drake". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.gq.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I'd say it's that most people think that very wealthy people take huge risks and that's why they have huge rewards. But the very best on earth are completely obsessed with not losing money. That sounds overly simplistic, but they know that if you lost 50 percent, it takes 100 percent to get even. Most people don't make that math in their head, so it takes years and years. They are obsessed with not losing money.

  Tony Robbins

  Math, Thinking, Years

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I'm obsessed with trying to understand what somebody is talking about and trying to get them to understand me.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Talking, Trying, Understand Me

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Whenever I really want a part, I'm not sure what to do. How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie?

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Directors, Want, Not Sure

  Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss them off with a few wry comments.

  James Elkins

  Artist, Achievement, Ambitious

  James Elkins (2005). “Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings”, p.6, Routledge

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• I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

  Mika

  Plastic

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• A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.

  Edward Abbey

  Miserable, Hard

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

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• Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

  Srikumar Rao

  Giving, Goal, Focus

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• The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the sun and the stars, sticks, stones, and rivers are obsessed with his fate. He is busy all the time in a ritual designed to propitiate the abounding jealousies of nature. For his world is magical and capricious, the simplest thing is occult.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stars, Fate, Rivers

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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• It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

  Cesare Pavese

  Desire, Want, Tests

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.106, Transaction Publishers

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• Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Men, Nihilism

  "The Closing of the American Mind". Book by Allan Bloom, pp. 157-158, 1987.

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• That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material; it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.

  Truman Capote

  Art, Jobs, Blood

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Teaching, Thinking

  Robertson Davies (1993). “Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast”, p.8, Dundurn

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• Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.

  Philip Pullman

  Hate, Dust, Different

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

  J. L. Austin

  Truth Is, Minimum, Illusory

  "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 130), 1979.

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• The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Book, Quality

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.

  Anthony Daniels

  Race, Strange, Affair

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• Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some differences of some sorts. I've worked on novels, films, and video games, and in an adaptation, I guess one of the issues is that I have to be in love with the thing I'm adapting before I do it. So that can cause a problem. You can be too scared of it. You could be too reverential. But at the same time you want to try to capture this thing that you're obsessed by. You're fixated for a reason. What's the reason? You try to get ahold of it.

  Alex Garland

  Real, Book, Thinking

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• At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.

  Ben Gibbard

  Regret, Taken, Thinking

  "The Meaning of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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• When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, for every single planet, a different alien race with a certain kind of pet, a certain kind of house, a certain kind of water system, and everything.

  James Gunn

  Kids, Race, Water

  Source: collider.com

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