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• I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I wasting so much money going back to this place, taking more pictures? What’s the point of it? No one cares about it. I think I care about it but maybe I am deceiving myself.

  Alex Webb

  Mean, Thinking, Doubt

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• Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.

  Cornel West

  Addiction, Seductive, Black History

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• Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition. Discipline. My name is C...M...Punk.

  CM Punk

  Inspiring, Tattoo, Wrestling

  "Extreme Championship Wrestling", July 4, 2006.

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• Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models.

  Robert Higgs

  Exercise, Done, Modern

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• It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.

  Anita Loos

  Sex, Fun, Race

  Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

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• The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

  Alfonso Garcia Robles

  Powerful, War, Nuclear Disarmament

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• Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.

  Jean Grenier

  Writing, Order

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• If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is watching Murakami come at his obsessions from so many different angles. There's a panoply of strangeness between these covers (.....) This collection shows Murakami at his dynamic, organic best. As a chronicler of contemporary alienation, a writer for the Radiohead age, he shows how taut and thin our routines have become, how ill-equipped we are to contend with the forces that threaten to disrupt us.

  Antoine Wilson

  Sleep, Age, Different

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• Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

  Jon Ronson

  People, Mad, Personality

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• From almost the first day they got into office, they (President Bush and Vice President Cheney) were trying to figure out how to get rid of Saddam Hussein. I'm not a psychiatrist - I don't know all of the reasons behind their concern, some might say their obsession.

  Hillary Clinton

  Office, Trying, President

  "Counterprogramming: Clinton in New Hampshire" by Patrick Healy, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. February 10, 2007.

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• I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about?

  Lady Gaga

  Art, Sex, Writing

  "Women in Music: Lady Gaga". Interview with Seth Plattner, www.elle.com. June 12, 2009.

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• How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought, often enough that its a wonder the whole waking world isn't simply viewed as an endless improvised film. One with as many screenwriters, producers, and directors as there are actors

  Bradford Morrow

  Dream, People, Desire

  Bradford Morrow (2011). “The Diviner's Tale”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

  Clint Eastwood

  Age, Littles, Able

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• I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.

  W. Clement Stone

  Change, Generations, World

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• The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their obliteration acknowledged. It is a moral obsession, the lonely legacy passed onto the third and fourth generation who no longer speak Armenian but who carry within them the seeds of resentment that will not be quashed.

  Chris Hedges

  Lonely, Memories, Home

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• If you get attached, then it becomes an obsession. If the person is not there, you are unhappy. If you miss the person, you are in misery. And attachment is such a disease that if the person is not there you are in misery, and if the person is there you are indifferent. Then it is okay; it is taken for granted. If the person is there it is okay - no more than that. If the person is not there, then you are in misery. This is attachment.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Attachment, Missing

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• Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity - its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self.

  Tobias Wolff

  Teaching, Pride, Boys

  Tobias Wolff (2004). “Old School”, p.193, Vintage

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• If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

  Henry Rollins

  Ideas, Hustle, Want

  "Henry Rollins' Letter to a Young American (Pt. 1)". bigthink.com.

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• Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Heart, Character, Fire

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

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• Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis and less frenzy.

  Pat Ament

  Climbing, Piano, Effort

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• Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.

  Eric Clapton

  Father, Self, Parent

  "What I've Learned: Eric Clapton" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 6, 2014.

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• Irrational crushes, infatuations, or obsessions. Whatever you want to label it, it's important to reach out to others.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Crush, Important, Labels

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• [On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

  June Allyson

  Husband, Laughing, Upset

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• The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Push Yourself, Danger

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• We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Break Off, Laughing

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