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• A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

  Jane Fonda

  Mother, Exercise, Dieting

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• There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

  Hugh Jackman

  People, How You Feel, Might

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jan 20, 2013

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• I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.

  Matthew Perry

  Kids, Laughing, Ensemble

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• I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• Honestly? I don’t want people around me for two reasons – they ultimately betray you or they die on you. Either way, you’re screwed and you spend all your time obsessing on why you didn’t see it coming. Or that you did something or didn’t do something to cause it. No offense, but I don’t like to be hurt and I’d rather just avoid it.(Ravyn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Two, People

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• Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

  Anne Lamott

  Long, Sick, Mind

  Anne Lamott (2003). “Blue Shoe”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Past, Emotional

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• but i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell myself. especially the good stuff. although typically you aren't faced with a hard deadline

  Emily Giffin

  Forever, Live In The Moment, Stuff

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.118, Macmillan

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• What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

  Peter Watts

  Sunset, Survival, Values

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.556, Head of Zeus

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• Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time.

  Anne Hathaway

  Weight, Waste, Wasting Time

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

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• Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

  Eric S. Raymond

  Memories, Men, Errors

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.23, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Being a celebrity stylist, there are many tricks of the trade that I use in my house and with my clients. The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser has so many uses, so it's my secret cleaning tool for keeping my shoes - like the vintage Air Jordan's I am obsessing over now - and my clients' shoes, scuff and dirt free.

  Brad Goreski

  Air, Vintage, Shoes

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• I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.

  Woody Allen

  Home, Sitting, Distraction

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• When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.

  Evan Williams

  Thinking, Brilliant, Problem

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• They're both about the correct or proper way to do something. There is a correct and proper way to use words and there is a correct and proper way to behave with other people. And I behaved improperly with John and feel bad, so I compensate by obsessing with language, which is easier to control than behavior.

  Peter Cameron

  People, Use, Way

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

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• Canada has little pictures of us in its bedroom, right? Canada spends all of its time thinking about the United States, obsessing over the United States. It's unrequited love between Canada and the United States.

  Tucker Carlson

  Unrequited Love, Love Is, Thinking

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.

  D. J. Cotrona

  Guy, Age, Wells

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• Late night chaining of videos and basically obsessing are rare for me, and often I've never even seen the videos of my favourite songs. That said, in terms of my own personal magic, video has probably rated lower than most music fans.

  Kieron Gillen

  Song, Night, Magic

  "The Return of the Ultimate Music-Obsessive Comic, Phonogram". Interview with Tom Ewing, pitchfork.com. August 12, 2015.

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• I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. That was considered completely normal.

  Simon Rich

  Onions, Normal, Strange

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• People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.

  Dougie Poynter

  Food, People, Cooking

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• There are always going to be Muslim atrocities! Whenever the media starts obsessing with ISIS, I think you're hiding something.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Hiding Something, Isis

  "Ann Coulter offers insight on Hillary Clinton's latest woes, Washington's amnesty debate". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. February 18, 2015.

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• I say if you're not obsessing about something, you might not be into it quite enough.

  Chris Thile

  Might, Enough, Ifs

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• What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that “time shall be no more” means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Biblical, Past

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• I've found that giving 100% to your job isn't the same as giving 100% of your life to your job. Very often when I thought I was giving 100% of my life to my job, I was simply obsessing over something.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Jobs, Giving, Found

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• The truth is, most celebrities are doing the same things most other people are doing every day... work, have dinner, hang out with your friends when you can, try and keep up with the crazy world we're living in and squeeze in some zzz's. There's not nearly as much stealing and obsessing and middle-of-the-night secret calls to ex-boyfriends and scheming and cheating [as they lead you to believe]. Most of it's just bulls - t, however entertaining.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Cheating, Crazy, Believe

  Source: www.glamour.com

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