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• I was obsessed with the idea of sitting next to someone and playing a game that we were both competing in, and we were also competing with the computer. That was mind-blowing to me at that time. It was just so cool to think about the computer being able to play with us, and then also [for] us to compete.

  Robin Hunicke

  Thinking, Games, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.

  Ice Cube

  Police, Hollywood, Stories

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2014.

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• I think, on both sides of the camera or the novel: Distraction. I'm obsessed with: Can I get this actress or my third act to work? I'm distracted. I'm interested in that so I don't sit home and think, "Gee, life is meaningless. We're all going to die. The universe is pulling apart at breakneck speed."

  Woody Allen

  Home, Thinking, Sides

  "Filmmaking Woody Allen's way". Interview, www.stuff.co.nz. June 25, 2012.

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• Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Art, Two, Knowing

  "Physics, 1991-1995" by G sta Ekspong, 1997.

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• Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes than immediate ones. This would especially be true of overeducated people, who are capable of thinking past the immediate, of becoming obsessed by the remote. It's the old stuff, the conflicts we've never come to terms with, that sneaks up on us, half forgotten, insisting upon action.

  Richard Russo

  Believe, Past, Thinking

  "Straight Man". Book by Richard Russo, 1997.

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• Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Hands, Years

  "Mapping Ideology" by Slavoj Žižek, p.1, 1994.

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• a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.

  Luis de Camoes

  Caring, Jail, Desire

  Luís de Camões (2008). “Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• I believe that space travel will one day become as common as airline travel is today. I'm convinced, however, that the true future of space travel does not lie with government agencies -- NASA is still obsessed with the idea that the primary purpose of the space program is science -- but real progress will come from private companies competing to provide the ultimate adventure ride, and NASA will receive the trickle-down benefits.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Real, Lying, Believe

  Buzz Aldrin (2009). “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon”, p.165, A&C Black

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• Even if I was really prolific - which I'm not - I think I'd always put at least a couple of covers on my record. I think it's a sort of healthy thing to do. It shows that you're not totally self-obsessed.

  Nick Lowe

  Couple, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. June 27, 2007.

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• Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story of a group of men obsessed with putting a trivial soft drink "within an arm's reach of desire." But at the same time, it is a microcosm of American history. Coca-Cola grew up with the country, shaping and shaped by the times. The drink not only helped to alter consumption patterns, but attitudes toward leisure, work, advertising, sex, family life, and patriotism.

  Mark Pendergrast

  Country, Sex, Attitude

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• A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.

  Ilana Mercer

  Team, Silly, Hair

  "Hollywood: The No-Good, The Bad And The Beastly". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. March 07, 2014.

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• I'm suddenly worried people will think that I believe their religion can be summed up on four sex-obsessed sentences.

  Ryan North

  Sex, Believe, Thinking

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• Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Differences, Actors

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• In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in the world. In the third quarter of the 18th century, by contrast, their forebears were perplexed by the problem of having acquired too much power too quickly over too many people.

  Linda Colley

  People, World, Littles

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• You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Chance, Language

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought me a box camera which I treasured for years. Initially I clicked trees and nature and as I grew up started noticing prettier things-motorbike, sleek cars and cool girls. But the hamartia of life is when you desire something you cannot afford it and when you are able to afford it you are too old to use it. Now I don't need all gadgets but it's satisfying to know that at least I can afford them.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Girl, Father, Years

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• Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them into a slob, into an insane being, craving power, destroying anything that stands in their way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Buddhism, People

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• I'm obsessed with packing in as much work as possible during each day, simply because there is only so much time you have in a lifetime. There is nothing better than to go home at night and know that you've done everything that you could do to accomplish your work.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Home, Night, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Playing somebody who's obsessed. Playing somebody who is transgressing, and who is really crossing moral lines and ethical lines. That's always interesting.

  James McAvoy

  Interesting, Lines, Moral

  Source: collider.com

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• When you fall in love for the first time, you're naive to every feeling that you're feeling, and you're almost obsessed with or addicted to that person. Your life is consumed by them, and everything you want to do revolves around them. I think it's great.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• When you are so obsessed with identity politics it's not healthy because you're constantly worried about how you're perceived as opposed to your achievements. Once your identity becomes your achievement then you run into serious problems.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Running, Identity Politics, Achievement

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think what makes so many other actors miserable is focusing completely on making other plans. They're obsessed with their haircut and their headshot and their agent, their IMDB profile or whatever.

  Nick Offerman

  Thinking, Actors, Agents

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be.

  Connor Franta

  Our Generation, Ideas, Perfection

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• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  Natalia Tena

  New York, Sausage, Honey

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• People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even kills what makes your life because you get so busy inside.

  Stephanie Szostak

  Dream, Careers, People

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