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• The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, People, Obedience

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• But then I thought, ‘I see transsexuals and they want healthy parts of their body removed in order to adjust to their idealized body image,' and so I think that was the connection for me. I saw that people wanted to have their limbs off with equally as much degree of obsession and need.”

  Julie Bindel

  Thinking, Order, People

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• What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15 years - liberals have come across no better evidence of burgeoning "right-wing extremist" violence than a drug-taking, self-described "agnostic" who was thrown out of the Michigan Militia and who proclaimed, "Science is my religion." That sounds more like Bill Maher than Rush Limbaugh.

  Ann Coulter

  Self, Years, Wings

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• I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

  David Tennant

  Thinking, Enthusiasm, Geek

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• Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my own personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work.

  Grayson Perry

  Art, Drawing, Style

  "Grayson Perry lassos thoughts with a pen" by Grayson Perry, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.

  Zoey Deutch

  Mom, Passion, Hunting

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• I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

  Paul Lynde

  Comedy, Rich, Obsessed

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• I love flat shoes, more so than heels. One of my obsessions is men's co-respondent lace-ups.

  Twiggy

  Men, Shoes, Lace

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• My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.

  Nathan Kress

  War, Simple, Watches

  "Get To Know iCarly's Nathan Kress". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. February 2, 2012.

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• While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

  Kate Cann

  Mental Illness, Oblivion, Appearance

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• Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

  Claude Monet

  Color, Long, Joy

  "Claude Monet: Les Nymphéas". Book by Georges Clemenceau, Ch. 2, 1926.

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• What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Different, Purpose

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Passion, Photographer

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

  Peter Sotos

  Body, Language, Obsessed

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• Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

  Christopher Durang

  College, Film, Obsessed

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• Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

  Zoe Kravitz

  People, Kind, Fame

  "Zoe Kravitz Talks ‘It Girl S**t,’ Mom Lisa Bonet" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2011.

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• An obsession might be a little strong a term, but it has now become one of the most significant aspects of my life, but most importantly of my career, because it has changed the public's perception of who Patrick Stewart is.

  Patrick Stewart

  Strong, Careers, Perception

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• It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

  Helen Dunmore

  Tyrants, Opponents, Want

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• It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Body, Very Sad, Obsessed

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• I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

  Zosia Mamet

  Play, Pirate, Bed

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• I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.

  Linda Evans

  Thinking, Hands, Years

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• Gunn, like me, has a James Bond obsession. He would love to be James Bond, and it's a great role that I would love to be, someday.

  J. August Richards

  Roles, Someday, Like Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. That's not what it's about for me. It's really about relationships and feelings...it's really hard for me to do commercial work because people kind of want me to do a Nan Goldin. They don't understand that it's not about a style or a look or a setup. It's about emotional obsession and empathy.

  Nan Goldin

  Photography, Art, Emotional

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• Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned economies - leads to monstrous absurdities. The only acceptable finality of human activity is the production of a subjectivity that is auto-enriching its relation to the world in a continuous fashion.

  Felix Guattari

  Fashion, Growth, World

  Félix Guattari (1995). “Chaosmosis: An Ethico-aesthetic Paradigm”, p.21, Indiana University Press

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• Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting - than the bland healer/uniter image stitched together out of whole cloth this past six years by Obama's packager, David Axelrod. Making heavy use of Obama's own writings, which he admires for their literary artistry, Sailer gives the deepest insights I have yet seen into Obama's lifelong obsession with 'race and inheritance,' and rounds off his brilliant character portrait with speculations on how Obama's personality might play out in the Presidency.

  John Derbyshire

  Real, Character, Writing

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