Obsession Quotes - Page 17

• I was obsessed, and like most obsessed people, I was the last one to know it.

  Kate Bornstein

  People, Lasts, Obsessed

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.69, Routledge

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• The microscopic world became my obsession.

  Willard Wigan

  World

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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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• The nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that tends toward obsession and brooding, that works against fatality like fingers at a knot. The firm, attentive mind on display and the lucid unfolding of the poems are the life instinct seeking and finding its way through again and again. Love and beauty are the argument, but they don't win easily. Bloom in Reverse works through elegy toward survival with moving persistence, both driven and compelling.

  Tony Hoagland

  Moving, Dark, Winning

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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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• Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

  Leon Edel

  Eye, Four, Obsessed

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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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• My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Memories, Blood, People

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• When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

  Julianna Baggott

  World, Mutual, One Thing

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• Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

  Ransom Riggs

  Girl, Baby, War

  "9 Creepy Photos That Appear In ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’" by Ransom Riggs, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It represents pretty much everything Patrick J. Buchanan hates.

  David Denby

  Sex, Hate, Past

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• I was ten years old when my first Vogue cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.

  Hamish Bowles

  Fashion, Rocks, Years

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• My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Beautiful, Fashion, Mind

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• I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven.

  Olivia Holt

  Heaven, Taste, Milk

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

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• The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold is durable, gold is rare, gold is even (in certain very peculiar circumstances) convertible. To believe in thrift, solidity and soundness is to believe in some way in the properties of gold.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Money, Believe, Gold

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• I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.

  Monique Coleman

  Yellow, Obsessed, Headbands

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• In one way an oil boom is a mighty bad thing, because it gets into your blood and almost becomes an obsession. Booms are filled with excitement, adventure, and drama, but sometimes the exit from the scene must be made between suns on a pair of mighty weary feet.

  Sue Sanders

  Success, Business, Drama

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• I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, Trying, Happens

  Press conference on 'The Number 23', collider.com. February 21, 2007.

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• There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

  Sally Mann

  Artist, Numbers, Southern

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