Obsession Quotes - Page 19

• I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.

  Juliette Binoche

  Thinking, Looks, Obsessed

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• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  Candice Bergen

  Book, Thinking, Quiet Moments

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• Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

  Paul Auster

  Important, Care

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• Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.

  Sebastian Bach

  Song, People, Band

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• An obsession that I've developed in my old age, is great architecture. I bought a house in New Orleans and I became quite enamored of the architecture there. It began there. I travel a lot or my work, so now, wherever I go, I wasn't to find the most beautiful church, the most beautiful museums. Anything ancient.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Beautiful, New Orleans, Museums

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.

  John D'Agata

  Want, Facts, Inclusiveness

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good work here, but much of what’s on view is actually more about obsession and repetition: a couch made out of 3,500 quarters, a necklace composed of 100 handgun triggers. The building, too, seems caught between wanting to be an object of decorative delectation and making an architectural statement.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Humble, Museums

  "Museum Date". Interview with Jerry Saltz, nymag.com. September 7, 2008.

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• Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD. But it's only habit and not obsession that keeps it all orderly. Of course, I don't want to give the impression that it's all up to me.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, Years, Giving

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.675, Simon and Schuster

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• There is also a particular area of sleep called slow-wave sleep. I immediately liked this idea. It turns out this part of sleep is where the brain basically gets into step with itself and gets into this one single phase of these relatively slow brain waves - around 10 Hz or so - and the whole brain 'fires all at once'. This is a brilliant bit of sleep where we consolidate memory and learning, and memory is one of my obsessions really.

  Max Richter

  Memories, Sleep, Fire

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

  Christian Bale

  Sleep, Pleasure, Obsessed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the whole obsession with old gear is completely overblown. You don't need old-fashioned gear to make a great-sounding record. You don't even need [analog] tape.

  Tony Visconti

  Thinking, Needs, Tape

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.

  Erol Alkan

  Creative, Musical, Good Things

  Source: thequietus.com

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• For Jewish people, salmon has a special meaning, not just because it's a flavor we've had all along our diaspora. Salmon also have this special return-to-their-roots desire. At the end of their lives, salmon try to swim back to when they were born. Even if they can't, they have this obsession. We as diaspora people love that a lot about salmon.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Roots, People, Swim

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

  Adrian Grenier

  Kids, Thinking, World

  "From A 'Teenage Paparazzo,' A Lesson About Fame". Interview with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. September 27, 2010.

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• Until our mission becomes our obsession, we'll be chained to the realm of average.

  Robin Sharma

  Average, Missions, Realms

  Twitter post from Dec 03, 2016

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• I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from day one, that has interested me.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Unique, People, Goal

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• Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Tolerance, Culture

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• Each obsession is a knot in your being. Once it is opened, great energy is released

  Rajneesh

  Energy, Knots

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.

  Anais Nin

  Book, Buying, Mines

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• I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

  Malin Akerman

  Fall, Kids, People

  "Malin Akerman: White House Home Wrecker?" by A.J.Jacobs, www.esquire.com. September 9, 2009.

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• I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Knowing, Skins

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• In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Europe, Soul, Haste

  "Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

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• We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.

  Brad Pitt

  Lifestyle, Consumers, Products

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• Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

  Robert Plant

  Kids, Dark, Mississippi Delta

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• I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

  Gary Oldman

  Piano, Obsessed, Classical Music

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