Obsession Quotes - Page 26

• Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in English. I am going through a bit of an obsession with bad puns. I am hoping I'll grow out of it. Maybe it's just a phase.

  Gruff Rhys

  Language, Pun, Welsh

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common.

  Beth Bailey

  Smart, Reading, Romance

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• I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing. Like, I'm unsure of what my life will be like. I mean, I have such an obsession with making movies that I probably will always do that. But sometimes my life can feel so suffocating, and then it can feel so massive, like I don't have a handle on it at all, and I don't know where it's going or what I'm going to do. Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

  Dakota Johnson

  Mean, Sometimes, Wonder

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.

  Aldous Huxley

  Two, Desire, Tasks

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.157, Transaction Publishers

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• Almost all major scientific projects today are huge collaborations, yet we still have this public obsession with the idea of the individual scientific genius. One of my goals as a science communicator is to celebrate the collaborative dimensions of science, which I think will be critical for facing the ecological and resource challenges ahead. In a sense, we are all corals now.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Thinking, Goal, Challenges

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The obsession with food filled my childhood - that's what happens when your parents are from a place or time where people really might starve. In America, my Jordanian father spent decades cooking professionally and pursuing his dream of a restaurant, and it was one of the central ways that he explained himself to his American children. Even though he's a passionate talker, he has a hell of a time with listening. His cooking gave him a way of having a conversation - which was a really interesting thing for a writer to look at.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Dream, Children, Father

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was coming from a theater background. I had an obsession with classic film and cool, interesting, intelligent television. I didn't really understand the way the mainstream television industry worked. I just thought "The wire is so good that it's going to be a huge hit, and we'll get awards up the yin-yang forever." That's what I thought!

  Lance Reddick

  Intelligent, Interesting, Forever

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one of the defining features of American political and cultural life. Ignorance has become a form of weaponized refusal to acknowledge the violence of the past, and revels in a culture of media spectacles in which public concerns are translated into private obsessions, consumerism and fatuous entertainment.

  Henry Giroux

  Ignorance, Past, Political

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Obsession is love in an extreme shape.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I don't understand people's obsessions.

  FKA twigs

  People

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.

  Jimenez Lai

  Real, Sleep, Taking A Break

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?

  Laura Mullen

  Philosophy, Dwelling, Meditation

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.

  Sundra Oakley

  Artist, Years, Martial Arts

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Never love for me, only obsession.

  Carrie Fisher

  "Remembering 'Star Wars' Actress Carrie Fisher". "Fresh Air" with Terry gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2016.

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• Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

  Rob Corddry

  Research, Tiny, Turns

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• You can't put passion and obsession into someone's employment contract - either you are or you aren't.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Passion, Employment, Contracts

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or time and memory and how they look when you get to be in your sixties, and I thought, "Well, yes but people are dying every day in Baghdad," I wouldn't feel guilty about not writing about Baghdad if I didn't have any good ideas about how to write about it.

  Robert Hass

  Memories, Writing, Grandchildren

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The good thing about forbidding the death penalty is that society won't be able to kill people who are not guilty, but at the same time there are some people that are just such a mental mess that, you know, they will never get out of their obsessions and they can keep them forever.

  Gaspar Noe

  People, Forever, Able

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

  Roxane Gay

  People, Ifs, Productivity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Addiction, People

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• My mom told me I could have sheets, towels, and a few pillows, but I wanted leopard drapes, carpeting, and a comforter, too. I think maybe my obsession had something to do with my grandmother - she told me the best print to buy is leopard because it always stays in style.

  Kim Kardashian

  Mom, Grandmother, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Tango is serious and takes discipline. It must be studied hard to be done well. It is elegant, formal, passionate and intimate. It is about power and vulnerability. It is both dance and metaphor. And to its captives becomes a magnificent obsession

  Janny Scott

  Dance, Discipline, Serious

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• I learned that I had character defects, that I was allergic to alcohol and drugs, and that I had an obsession with all the bad stuff. But thank God that I woke and that I had good people around me to support me. There's not much more I can say about it. You have to want to be a better person.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Character, People, Support

  "Sugar Ray Leonard - "The Big Fight" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Thinking, Art History

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image of perfection that ruled the day in the 18th and 19th centuries. It's an antiquated language, but I think we've inherited that language and have forwarded it to its most useful points in the 21st century.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Perfection, Anxiety

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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