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• I love clothes. I can't control myself. I have a huge fetish for shoes and clothes and make-up. I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to wear things over and over again.

  Hilary Duff

  Control Myself, Shoes, Clothes

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

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• One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

  Mason Cooley

  Beauty, Children, Said

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• I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

  Aleister Crowley

  Regret, Father, Mean

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 66, 1969.

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• No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

  Wendell Phillips

  Freedom, Jealous, People

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• The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.

  Simon Blackburn

  Objectivity, Absolutism, Facts

  Simon Blackburn (2005). “Truth: A Guide”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. "It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Real, Nice, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.226, Macmillan

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• This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet. I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet. If someone has a foot fetish, I'd have an in. I love foot rubs, too. I'll take one whenever I can.

  Torrie Wilson

  Nice, Feet, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Weakness, Western Culture

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Numbers, Quality, Pages

  Interview with Paul Auster, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.

  Molly Haskell

  Sex, Haskell, Fixation

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

  Mark Twain

  Single, Loyalty, Self

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• I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

  Aleister Crowley

  Father, Cutting, Men

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 66, 1969.

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• Muhammad was a jackass. People who believe in him are stupid. Let us call a spade as spade. These people must be laughed at. They, and their screwball prophet have to be ridiculed not respected. Let them cringe, let them wince, let them agonize. We must demolish this fetish and break the shackles of these wretched people. They must be set free and the only way to do that is to demolish their fetish.

  Ali Sina

  Stupid, Believe, People

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Artist, People

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.202, Hoover Press

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• I'll take a foot fetish with a man and his wife over a foot fetish with a man and his mistress any day. I don't care what they do. You go with it with your marriage and have a good time.

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck

  Men, Feet, Wife

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• Most people turn things like elections into a fetish and think it's the only way to go: if we just keep giving people the vote, that'll solve all our problems. In the end, that's just a silly, infantile notion.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Silly, Thinking, People

  "'The Buddah' & the End of Human Suffering/Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.

  Pablo Picasso

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

  Guillermo del Toro

  Dark, Monsters, Insects

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• I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When I figure out what I would like to see, I will put it in a film.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Film, Figures, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods

  Carl Jung

  Men, Thinking, Our World

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• I appreciate the female foot, but I've never said that I have a foot fetish. But I am a lower track guy. I like legs' I like booties'. I have a black male sexuality.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Feet, Track, Appreciate

  "Quentin Tarantino - The "Inglourious Basterds" Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• But times and tempers are changed. Rebels are everywhere to be found who no longer wish to obey the law without knowing whence it comes, what are its uses, and whither arises the obligation to submit to it, and the reverence with which it is encompassed. The rebels of our day are criticizing the very foundations of society which have hitherto been held sacred, and first and foremost amongst them that fetish, law.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Law, Knowing, Wish

  "Law and Authority". "Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets". Book edited by Roger N. Baldwin, 1927.

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• I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.

  Peter Jackson

  Trying, Use, Adore

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.

  James Luther Adams

  Idols, Doe, Worship

  James Luther Adams (1986). “The Prophethood of All Believers”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out a philosophy of life and struck a compromise between the flesh and the spirit. Too great an ascendancy of either was to be abnormal, and since normality is almost a fetish of mine, I finally succeeded in balancing both natures. Ordinarily they are at equilibrium; yet as frequently as one is permitted to run rampant, so is the other. I have small regard for an utter brute or for an utter saint.

  Jack London

  Running, Philosophy, Two

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