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• The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

  Bob Beauprez

  Taxes, Democrat, Rate

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• A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

  Jane Fonda

  Mother, Exercise, Dieting

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• I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• Honestly? I don’t want people around me for two reasons – they ultimately betray you or they die on you. Either way, you’re screwed and you spend all your time obsessing on why you didn’t see it coming. Or that you did something or didn’t do something to cause it. No offense, but I don’t like to be hurt and I’d rather just avoid it.(Ravyn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Two, People

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• Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

  Anne Lamott

  Long, Sick, Mind

  Anne Lamott (2003). “Blue Shoe”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Past, Emotional

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• but i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell myself. especially the good stuff. although typically you aren't faced with a hard deadline

  Emily Giffin

  Forever, Live In The Moment, Stuff

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.118, Macmillan

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• What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

  Peter Watts

  Sunset, Survival, Values

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.556, Head of Zeus

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• Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time.

  Anne Hathaway

  Weight, Waste, Wasting Time

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

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• Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

  Eric S. Raymond

  Memories, Men, Errors

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.23, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Being a celebrity stylist, there are many tricks of the trade that I use in my house and with my clients. The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser has so many uses, so it's my secret cleaning tool for keeping my shoes - like the vintage Air Jordan's I am obsessing over now - and my clients' shoes, scuff and dirt free.

  Brad Goreski

  Air, Vintage, Shoes

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• For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Fall, Taken, Cutting

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• I actually lost weight by not obsessing. When I crave something I eat it and then I eat healthily, and I don't go: "Oh, I can't eat." It means I don't want to eat too much because I'm letting myself be comfortable with it. It's really interesting. It has worked for me.

  Carmen Electra

  Mean, Interesting, Weight

  "Scary Movie 4 - Carmen Electra interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Mirrors, House, Trying

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• Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good, obsessing about guilt is bad. But I think guilt is good because I'm like, "Hey, I just stabbed that guy and I feel pretty good."

  Lino Rulli

  Thinking, Guy, Guilt

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

  Thom Yorke

  Block, Creating, Information

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• Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely.... Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those devil "distractions," and constantly reassessing which shiny new "system" might make your life suddenly seem more sensible - these are all terrifically useful warning flares that you may be suffering from a deeper, more fundamental problem.... Know in your heart that what you're making or doing matters... First, care. Then, as you'll happily and unavoidably discover, all that "focus" business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself.

  Merlin Mann

  Heart, Sweat, Focus

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• I have this problem where it's like'I can never stop thinking. For instance, I find myself obsessing over the treatment of black women and girls by black men'the fact that black men have a special prejudice against black women and generally don't protect them or attempt to understand them, and I cry an awful lot about that.

  Kola Boof

  Girl, Men, Thinking

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• Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time.

  Laura Mullen

  Years, Gertrude, Syllabus

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Stressing and obsessing over your vision blocks it.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Block, Stress, Over You

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I don't really get that nervous about whether people like it. You can't do anything about that. It's more technical. You spend two years of your life obsessing, picturing sound details, and you work so hard to make a movie a certain way, that you get there, and you're like - is it loud enough or whatever, so that this experience with everybody in this room is the fairest chance I can get. And then if you like it, cool, and if you don't, whatever.

  Ti West

  Years, Two, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That is the brilliant thing about the millennials. They're not obsessing about, "Hey, there is not going to be a job for me" - they're trying to take advantage of how good a life they can have without having to create so much nominal income.

  Ken Moelis

  Jobs, Trying, Income

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• The truth is, most celebrities are doing the same things most other people are doing every day... work, have dinner, hang out with your friends when you can, try and keep up with the crazy world we're living in and squeeze in some zzz's. There's not nearly as much stealing and obsessing and middle-of-the-night secret calls to ex-boyfriends and scheming and cheating [as they lead you to believe]. Most of it's just bulls - t, however entertaining.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Cheating, Crazy, Believe

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.

  D. J. Cotrona

  Guy, Age, Wells

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• Canada has little pictures of us in its bedroom, right? Canada spends all of its time thinking about the United States, obsessing over the United States. It's unrequited love between Canada and the United States.

  Tucker Carlson

  Unrequited Love, Love Is, Thinking

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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