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• My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  People, Quality, Sometimes

  "We still have the same disease" by Margaret Wente, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 13, 2009.

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• A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

  Felicity Jones

  Reading, Scripts, Film

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• My hobbies have varied over the years. There were a whole set of new ones before I got married. Now I spend as much time with my wife, who is my best friend.

  Jason Bateman

  Years, Wife, My Best Friend

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• Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Inspirational, God, Mom

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• We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time

  Alec Waugh

  Wine, Needs, Analysis

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• When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.

  Rachel Billington

  Writing, People, Assuming

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• Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of
  inspector of desert water holes.

  Edward Abbey

  Water, Desert, World

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.

  Edward Abbey

  Race, Survival, Honor

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

  Fred Reed

  Peace, Children, War

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• My dad has a weird hobby; he collects empty bottles... which sounds so much better than "alcoholic."

  Stewart Francis

  Dad, Drinking, Sound

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• I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism, because it teaches you, it informs you, and it changes your writing.

  Jo-Ann Mapson

  Book, Writing, Criticism

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• He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Commitment, Giving, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Business, Thinking, Power

  "Online Extra: Pierre Omidyar on "Connecting People"". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2005.

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• You don't have to have a terrific voice or know how to read music. The only requirement is that you enjoy singing, fun and fellowship. And, this is a great hobby for fathers and sons to share.

  Dick Miller

  Fun, Father, Son

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• Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.

  David Penhaligon

  Mps, Politics, Honest

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• To me, first and foremost, basketball is a fun sport. It is a hobby, an interest. And second, it is a profession. I feel that I am very fortunate that I can find a professional job that I really, really love.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Sports, Jobs

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• Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives; climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Girlfriend, Husband

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• Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.

  Sara Maitland

  Christian, Buddhist, Prayer

  "Beyond peace and quiet" by Sara Maitland, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

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• Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.

  Warren Buffett

  World, Likes

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• Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

  William Baldwin

  Careers, Acting, Passionate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Computers, singing, reading, painting and gardening are my hobbies.

  Arfa Karim

  Reading, Singing, Gardening

  Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com

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• Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

  Arthur D. Levinson

  Physics, Persons, Mines

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• Back in the 40s and early 50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.

  Robert Moog

  Simple, People, Kitchen

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• The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer included.

  Gary Gulman

  Loneliness, Nerd, Definitions

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• I try to find some sort of meditative hobby to do on set, and it's different for every film. There's a lot of downtime, but I don't like reading on set because it feels like you're taking yourself out of your world, instead of being present. And then, you feel like you're not ready to do whatever you have to do.

  Brie Larson

  Reading, Trying, Downtime

  Source: collider.com

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