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• Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled at his adolescent self, a self he feels was unacceptable. With bravado, he expresses regret that he didn't rack up more sexual conquests in his teens; in person, he expresses a truer regret that he was intimidated by life itself.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Mother, Regret, Self Esteem

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• Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Race, Filters

  "Bernie Goldberg Exposes Liberal, Skinhead Obsession". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, nation.foxnews.com. April 24, 2012.

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• Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge, liberal and conservative, Austrian and Keynesian-both sides share an essential economic vision. They see their discipline as successful insofar as it eliminates surprise-insofar, that is, as the inexorable workings of the machine override the initiatives of the human actors.

  George Gilder

  School, Successful, Opposites

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• We become our own enemy when we are thrown out of balance by anger, hatred, grief, or any other intense emotion. We are for the time being obsessed by something alien.

  Swami Paramananda

  Grief, Hatred, Enemy

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• I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.

  Iggy Azalea

  Baby, Rap, Never Forget

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

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• I revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love TV.

  Jessica Valenti

  Bored, Scandal, Tvs

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• I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.

  Adam Savage

  Ideas, Needs, Might

  "Inside Adam Savage's toolbox". www.wired.com. August 22, 2012.

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• It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.

  Gore Vidal

  Ideas, Ironic, Conspiracy

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

  Fergie

  Burritos, Taco Bell, Bells

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• I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

  Kajol

  Writing, Self, People

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• If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.

  Kajol

  Believe, Weight, Want

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• I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Growing Up, Kids, Important

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• The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

  John Fowles

  Age, Failing, Virtue

  John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape

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• Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

  Sarah Vowell

  Mean, Fbi Agents, President

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Aug 31, 2008

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• I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

  Johnny Vegas

  Illumination, House, Decorating

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• I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.

  Aziz Ansari

  Comedy, Kind, Wells

  "Aziz Ansari Interview". Interview with Jessica Hundley, www.askmen.com.

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• The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.

  Aziz Ansari

  School, Rocks, Two

  "Aziz Ansari's Latest Is 'Dangerously Delicious'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, nhpr.org. April 2, 2012.

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• Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

  Minnie Driver

  Baby, Looks, Guile

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• It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

  Christopher Lasch

  Bourgeoisie, Peculiar, Horror

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• I am fascinated by revolution. I am completely absorbed by it. I am crazed, am obsessed by the romanticism... . Revolution surges, flashes, thunders in almost every corner of the earth... . Brothers and sisters, keep fanning the flames of the leaping fire. ... Let us become logs to feed the flames of revolution.

  Sukarno

  Brother, Fire, Flames

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• I do not believe that people want to work hard enough and they want to find the quick Twitter, SEO. Anybody who's obsessed with SEO has lost already, period. I believe that firmly.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Believe, Hard Work, People

  "How to Cash In on Your Passion: An Interview With Gary Vaynerchuk". Interview with Rich Brooks, www.fastcompany.com. October 12, 2009.

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• I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.

  Andrea Arnold

  People, Way, Turns

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• The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.

  Bar Refaeli

  Phones, Cells, Three

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• I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.

  Alexa Chung

  Oil, Decided

  "Alexa Chung For L'Oréal Professionnel INOA". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. February 22, 2013.

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• I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

  Eve Arnold

  Children, Poverty, Birth

  Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)

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