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• I had to learn how to change my thinking because I can really get caught up in not liking my body. It can turn into obsession and it can be really bad. I think that when that rules your life then you miss the joys of life.

  Carmen Electra

  Thinking, Joy, Missing

  "Scary Movie 4 - Carmen Electra interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think it's obsessions that a lot of people share, but they don't dare to talk about openly.

  Julie Delpy

  Thinking, People, Share

  "Julie Delpy's Entropic Vacation". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.

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• I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Passion, Thinking, Looks

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• People often ask me: Who has influenced you the most? Your father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, my choices were fundamentally influenced by them, by the spirit of equality they infused in me - my obsession for justice comes from my father, who in turn got it from Mahatma Gandhi.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, People, Justice

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: nefac.net

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• I have an obsession with just watching people and what they're into.

  Zendaya

  People

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

  Isabel Allende

  Needs, Stories, Deals

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• Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

  Maimonides

  Men, Honor, Add

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• It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Passion, Thinking About You, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going, but it's bad because it really is sort of like an obsession where you can't stop sometimes and it'll keep you up at night and ruin your weekend.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Writing, Weekend, Night

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What's so beautiful about breasts is their uniqueness. I don't understand the obsession with fakeness. It's a very odd thing, isn't it, to prefer fake and big to small and unique or just beautiful and real.

  Anne Heche

  Beautiful, Real, Unique

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• If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Convincing Yourself, Desire, Want

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.25, Penguin

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• The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of unconsciousness." Each one's is different. Somebody is sex-obsessed. In a country like India, where for centuries sex has been repressed, that has become almost a universal characteristic; everybody is obsessed with sex. Somebody is obsessed with anger, and somebody else is obsessed with greed. You have to watch which is your basic obsession.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Country, Sex, Greed

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• We amateur athletes are peculiarly devoted to our fitness, and our obsessions can sometimes be a burden to our loved ones and a mystery to everyone else.

  Peter Sagal

  Athlete, Mystery, Sometimes

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• Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

  E. M. Forster

  Purity, Obsessed, Reformers

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• Films, like memories, seem to re-shoot themselves over the years, reflecting our latest needs and obsessions. In many cases they can change completely, and reveal unexpected depths and shallows. Will Four Weddings and a Funeral be seen one day as a vicious social satire? Could Jaws become as tearful and sentimental as Bambi?

  J. G. Ballard

  Memories, Years, Funeral

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• Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.

  Richard J. Foster

  Distance, Heart, Grieving

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• It's been an obsession of various genres, disciplines, and aspects and elements of movie-making. It's always been something that I've really aspired to, so doing something new and different, reinventing myself and working with new people is just the passport to the amazing world that is the movies.

  David Gordon Green

  Discipline, People, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Why is it so many political parties never learn that lesson? There was an obsession on the right to get [Hillary] Clinton. There was an obsession on the left to get - frankly, look at - look at the liberals in the early 1980s with [Ronald] Reagan. They got so caught up in the personality that they could n`t see the forest.

  Chuck Todd

  Party, Political, Personality

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

  Michael Ventura

  Artist, Damn

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The world of psychology and the world of normal life tends to look down on obsession. It's not good for you, and certainly not good for your relationships. It's not good for a lot of things, but it's the only way to make a work of art.

  Michael Ventura

  Art, Psychology, Looks

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Religious, Acceptance, Punishment

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• Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

  Adrian Tan

  Each Day, Enthusiasm, Restless

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• I definitely have a Google obsession of Juliette Binoche. I'm obsessed. I'll read everything she's ever said. I can tell you anything you want to know about Juliette Binoche, or Jack White. Those are my two creepy obsessions.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Two, White, Google

  Source: collider.com

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• I think I'm fascinated with history and - just in general. And I'm always interested in how did - how did this come to be? Why is this the way it is? And even singing classical voice, I quickly became more and more interested with early music, baroque voice. And that became an obsession to me - just figuring out how - who are the ancestors of whatever it is.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Thinking, Voice, Singing

  "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 4, 2015.

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