Fetish Quotes - Page 5

• Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play with my feet and other kids' feet, and that was his thing.

  Tom Cole

  Kids, Play, Feet

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• The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

  C. Wright Mills

  Stars, Men, White

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• I think the beauty of images is that they are by definition fetishes and every image (banal or not) as a fetish holds within it the promise of a sensuousness that (without generalizing) at least I, as a human being, am drawn to.

  Anton Yelchin

  Thinking, Promise, Definitions

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

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• As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Long, Wave, Easy

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• The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Distance, Home, College

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• Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

  Theodor Adorno

  Mean, Reflection, Self

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.50, Verso

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• To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.

  Emma Goldman

  States, Tendencies, Shows

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Consistency, Conviction, Devoted

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.82, Discovery House

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• Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?

  Don Feder

  Hate, War, Political

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• I have a fetish for damsels in distress.” “Don’t be sexist.” “Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal opportunity fetish.

  Cassandra Clare

  Opportunity, Gentleman, Sexist

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Good Things, Made, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.121, Rajpal & Sons

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• I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

  Ben Lerner

  Artist, Stupidity, Culture

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

  Karl Marx

  Atheist, Mind, Deals

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• Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Levels, Depravity, Spinsters

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.6, St. Martin's Press

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• Argo might well be studied as a bait-and-switch masterwork: In showing the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran, Ben Affleck first made a fetish of authenticity, then served up a shamelessly Hollywood, and wholly fictional climax, then capped the whole thing off with a coda that was essentially a tribute to his movie's authenticity, complete with side-by-side photos of the actors and their near-identical real-life counterparts. Well done, sir!

  David Edelstein

  Real, Actors, Done

  "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 2012.

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• She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.

  David Nicholls

  Notebook, Coffee, Believe

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• When I first learned about Abrams and saw the types of books they were making, I knew I wanted my books to be published by them. Abrams books are special-when you hold one in your hands, you have the feeling that this book needed to be made. I once heard an artist say that books are fetish objects-I think Abrams gets that, because their books demand to be treasured. So who better to give comics art its proper due? I feel privileged to have found a home with Abrams.

  Jeff Kinney

  Art, Book, Home

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• I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

  Ann Coulter

  Soccer, Community, Promise

  "Coulter: Any growing interest in soccer a sign of nation's moral decay" by Ann Coulter, www.clarionledger.com. June 25, 2014.

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