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• You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sex, Talking, Fake

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.58, Hamilton Books

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• When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don't believe something to be true, wouldn't you just ignore it? That's certainly what I do. Whether it's leprechauns or a congressional debt reduction plan - if I'm convinced it's fiction, I simply put it out of my mind. Not the atheists. They are obsessed with faith and religious practice. Their identities and their works are one big reaction to that which they hate. No longer content to simply dismiss God and those who follow in Him, the New Atheists have created a cult of unbelief.

  Laura Ingraham

  Religious, Atheist, Hate

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• I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

  Otto Dix

  Beautiful, Obsession, Representation

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• I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn't know.

  Adam Fuss

  Photography, Art, Mean

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• Young girls are obsessed with having a thigh gap. I blame the impossible body standards set by Spongebob.

  Stephen Colbert

  Girl, Standards Set, Perfect

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• It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be obsessed with stretching towards that goal through an understanding of others and the world we inhabit. When that happens, the results, like photographs, are really the expressions of the life of the maker.

  David Hurn

  Photography, Expression, Goal

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• The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Real, Numbers, West

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• The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

  Alastair Campbell

  Doctors, Media, Medicine

  "Alastair Campbell" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.

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• I can relate to girls with self esteem issues because growing up in this industry there is the side of you that is obsessed with perfection. You want to please everyone because if you don't, you won't get the job. There is always someone prettier, smarter, or a better actor that you. You start to nit-pick everything. That perfectionism kicks in and it can take over your life if you let it. You have to get comfortable with yourself. Then, if you get the job, it is an added bonus.

  Naya Rivera

  Girl, Jobs, Growing Up

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• I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.

  Nadia Giosia

  Years, Television, Comedy

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• As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.

  Libba Bray

  Stars, Kids, Dark

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.257, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• In his writings, Patton was shameless about his ambition to woo Lena to be his bride. He detailed the gradual progress he made, playing music for her on his violin, writing her poems, beguiling her with stories, engaging her in conversation. It was clear that he obsessed over her. He knew what he wanted and never relented until she was his.

  Brandon Mull

  Writing, Ambition, Progress

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2009). “Grip of the Shadow Plague”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work colleague or someone they vaguely knew for years; living in a parallel world in their head; conjuring up endless plots and scenarios for this thing that never actually happened.

  Caitlin Moran

  Years, Plot, Stories

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• Once apon a time, Ian's dark, dreamy eyes had made her melt inside. The angle of his head, the wrinkle in the left corner of his lip—they'd obsessed her. And he'd been obsessed right back. Now all Amy wanted to do was throw her shoe at the screen.

  Peter Lerangis

  Eye, Dark, Wrinkles

  Peter Lerangis (2012). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 3: The Dead of Night”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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• Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed, vampire stalker

  Stephenie Meyer

  Vampire, Midnight Sun

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• Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV

  Debra Messing

  Dog, Husband, Book

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• I love when people become obsessed with Downton.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  People

  "Jessica Brown Findlay's Sybil Liberties". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Im obsessed with neon sneakers.

  Rob Kardashian

  Sneakers, Neon

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• I think you have to earn beauty. You can use it or abuse it however you want when you`re young. It`s a God-given gift. You have a visiting card - you can go into any room and someone will come and talk to you. But I`ve always thought from very early on that you have to be careful with that - not being vain or narcissistic. Have fun, but don`t be obsessed with it.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Fun, Thinking, Abuse

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

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• You know as far as diet goes, for a while I was really obsessed with counting fat grams along with the rest of the world.

  Jean Smart

  World, Counting, Fats

  "Jean Gets Smart About Fitness and Diet". Interview with Candace A. Wedlan, articles.latimes.com. July 20, 1998.

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• As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.

  Rachael Harris

  Party, People, House

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

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• My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.

  John Krasinski

  Football, Fun, Water

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• Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Commitment, Two, Obsession

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• I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy.

  Cheryl Cole

  Baby, Kids, Boys

  "The Voice". Interview with Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 6, 2014.

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• I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

  Aaron Paul

  Thinking, Class, Play

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

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