Obsession Quotes - Page 28

• Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.

  Johnny Marr

  Guitar, Age, Four

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• I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

  Antonia Thomas

  Drama, Race, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

  Renzo Piano

  Art, Italian, Lunch

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• to give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Breathing, Giving

  Malvina Hoffman (1965). “Yesterday is Tomorrow: A Personal History”, New York : Crown Publishers

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• If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Children, Trying

  Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”

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• Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession.

  Hallie Burnett

  Hard Work, Writing, Working It

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• Apologies; our cultural obsession with them isn't about actually being offended, or simply needing to hear, “I'm sorry.” It's not really about right or wrong. It's about wanting to throw a rock in the dark and hear something break.

  Jim Norton

  Sorry, Dark, Apology

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• I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

  JJ Feild

  Thinking, America

  "JJ Feild, Gentleman Spy". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 14, 2013.

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• If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Eye, Buddhism

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• We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

  Roxane Gay

  People, Ifs, Productivity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's an obsession by the media to delegitimize Donald Trump, and we are not going to sit around and let it happen. We're going to fight back tooth and nail every day, and twice on Sunday.

  Reince Priebus

  Fighting, Sunday, Media

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I used to live in Los Angeles, but I didn't want my kids to grow up in the thick of the obsession with movie-making. There's a lot of sensationalism and superficiality. I wanted to take my kids out of that and raise 'em up elsewhere, and I wanted to stop being preoccupied with whether my star is on the rise or the descent. I can't imagine having a much greater life, and I don't want to be preoccupied with things that don't matter. But of course, ironically, my two oldest daughters have decided that they're going to be actresses.

  Woody Harrelson

  Daughter, Stars, Growing Up

  "Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg". Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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• [John Adams and Tomas Jefferson] shared experience in 1775 - 1776 in bringing about the separation from Britain and their service in Europe cemented a friendship that in the end withstood the most serious political and religious differences that one could imagine, especially their differences over the French Revolution. It was probably Jefferson's obsession with politeness and civility that kept the relationship from becoming irreparably broken.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Religious, Europe, Differences

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to believe in them. I have had a small one to run my own home; and besides that, I am the head of the organization that makes the greatest of all budgets, that of the United States Government. Do you wonder, then, that at times I dream of balance sheets and sinking funds?

  Calvin Coolidge

  Running, Dream, Believe

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or time and memory and how they look when you get to be in your sixties, and I thought, "Well, yes but people are dying every day in Baghdad," I wouldn't feel guilty about not writing about Baghdad if I didn't have any good ideas about how to write about it.

  Robert Hass

  Memories, Writing, Grandchildren

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The good thing about forbidding the death penalty is that society won't be able to kill people who are not guilty, but at the same time there are some people that are just such a mental mess that, you know, they will never get out of their obsessions and they can keep them forever.

  Gaspar Noe

  People, Forever, Able

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Unique, Vision

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• Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that have no true value for real, man. And I mean, we do it just to impress people that could care less if your children or your children's children have anything left to show for your life after you gone.

  T.I.

  Children, Real, Mean

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes!

  Danielle Steel

  Shoes

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing trends in education: in Nietzsche's case, the production either of 'useless', dry-as-dust scholars or people 'useful' for the needs of an expanding industrial economy; in my case, a similar subjection of education to economic imperatives, but also to ideological obsessions, notably with promoting 'equality'.

  David E. Cooper

  Writing, Dust, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We see each other [ with Iman Abdulmajid] a lot. I couldn't stand to be separated for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

  David Bowie

  Balance, Months, Share

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Never love for me, only obsession.

  Carrie Fisher

  "Remembering 'Star Wars' Actress Carrie Fisher". "Fresh Air" with Terry gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2016.

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• What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image of perfection that ruled the day in the 18th and 19th centuries. It's an antiquated language, but I think we've inherited that language and have forwarded it to its most useful points in the 21st century.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Perfection, Anxiety

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession.

  Paul Saffo

  Climate, Way, Next

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I first discovered YouTube while browsing the web, and then I found people just talking into their cameras. I never even knew it was a thing you could do. William Sledd was my first YouTube obsession. He was so unapologetically himself, and just had fun talking to his audience about things that interested him. I thought - if he could do it, why couldn't I?

  Tyler Oakley

  Fun, Talking, People

  "TheBacklot Interview: Tyler Oakley". Interview with Louis Virtel, www.newnownext.com. September 4, 2013.

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