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• I take it so seriously as far as meditation, notes, visualization, preparation, everything. I take it a lot more serious than a lot of people that play this sport. I'm obsessed with the game that I play.

  Jon Jones

  Sports, Games, Play

  "Jon "Bones" Jones: 'Don't be intimidated'". Interview with Shawn Donnelly, www.mademan.com. September 22, 2011.

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• The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first and then I get really obsessed with arranging, adding, and subtracting parts. The last step of the process, for me, is finding words that fit into that structure and figuring out exactly what I want to talk about.

  Mikal Cronin

  Want, Lasts, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Obsession is such a naughty word - it's a very intense word. I'm obsessed with music, always have been. I can't lie. And I'm obviously obsessed with my child, my child's life and the little things that he does.

  Kate Hudson

  Children, Lying, Naughty

  "Fool's Gold - Kate Hudson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.

  Randy Schekman

  School, Algae, Hours

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• When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Gun, People

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• Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.

  Dan Savage

  Degrees, Fidelity, Higher

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• I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager

  Dave Grohl

  Teenager, Zeppelins, Obsession

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• I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

  Frank Gehry

  Passion, Opportunity, Trying

  Casey C. M. Mathewson, Frank O. Gehry (2007). “Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works : 1969 to Today”, Firefly Books Limited

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• I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.

  Boman Irani

  Thinking, Missing, Scared

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• The big thing is to make a winning effort. Im not obsessed with wins.

  Morgan Wootten

  Winning, Effort, Bigs

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• My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me he is obsessed with.

  Craig Stone

  Two, Four, Flight

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• We live in an age where people are kind of a bit obsessed with celebrity and stuff. You can't help but be curious about it.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Age, Stuff

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• I'm obsessed with beards. First of all, beards make you look like more of an animal. Second, I kind of like biting beards; it's a pastime of mine.

  Kesha

  Animal, Looks, Biting

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• He [Mark Webb] is very savvy, technically, he's shot so many videos, he knows how to get what he wants. The surprise, of course, is that he's also an extremely humanistic story-teller. He's obsessed with story and character, and not just making it look right, which is a double-thred that's rare in directors.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Character, Want, Directors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.

  Judd Apatow

  Song, School, Kids

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I was a big TV kid.When I was a kid, I would go home at 3:00 and watch TV straight through to the end of Letterman at 1:30 in the morning.I was obsessed with comics.And I would watch Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno and study them as if it was Tolstoy.

  Judd Apatow

  Morning, Kids, Home

  "A Conversation with Director Judd Apatow". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Ideas, Would Be, Force

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't like ordinary girls. But a girl who would kill a guy to make him hers and then kiss his still-warm lips... a girl like Oscar Wilde's Salome They drive me crazy. Like Kiyohime turning into a snake to chase her man or the grocery girl Oshichi who set fire to a building just to see hers one more time. I want to be loved like that be obsessed over be hated.

  Mizuki Nomura

  Girl, Crazy, Kissing

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• Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary mistakes in
  the cosmos- evolutionary curiosities that rise like mayflies, swarm for a day, and are gone. We are players who are here to stay, and the universe was built with us in mind. We reflect it, with our deepest loves and loftiest aspirations, just as it reflects us.

  Eben Alexander

  Mistake, Player, Curiosity

  Eben Alexander (2014). “The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Jobs, Italian, Names

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• Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex.

  Mary McCarthy

  Sex, Puritan, Used

  "Lady with a Switchblade". Life Magazine, September 20, 1963.

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• I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.

  J. J. Abrams

  Analogue

  "JJ Abrams: 'I called Spielberg and he said yes'" by Katie Puckrik, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2011.

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• I have become a bit obsessed with eyebrows, I used to never have any and then I realised big eyebrows are good and now I'm an eyebrow fiend. Everyone comes to me to get their eyebrows done.

  Jessie J

  Eyebrows, Done, Used

  "EXCLUSIVE! Jessie J: 'If I wasn't a singer I'd probably do make-up'". Interview with Rebecca Cox, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. July 5, 2013.

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• Why is everybody so obsessed? Money can't buy us happiness

  Jessie J

  Song: Price Tag, Album: Who You Are

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• I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like us!' Everything I do except my job is critically analyzed online.

  Pete Wentz

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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