Obsession Quotes - Page 31

• People often ask me: Who has influenced you the most? Your father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, my choices were fundamentally influenced by them, by the spirit of equality they infused in me - my obsession for justice comes from my father, who in turn got it from Mahatma Gandhi.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, People, Justice

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

  Sonia Braga

  Couple, Documentaries, Ruins

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.

  Regina Spektor

  80s

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an immigrant bubble and we didn't have MTV or cable, so I kind of discovered the '80s when I was already older, maybe in college. And I continued to have this romantic obsession with all those films and there's this sound I hear in my head and it's kind of this bittersweet romantic, dark sound.

  Regina Spektor

  Dark, College, Mtv

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Mother, Years, Names

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. OCtober 5, 2016.

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• This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

  Tilda Swinton

  Meaningful, Kindness, Self

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• I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship. But let us not sacrifice our civil liberties on the altar of her obsession.

  Richard Posner

  Sacrifice, Government, Liberty

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• I have an obsession with just watching people and what they're into.

  Zendaya

  People

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions.

  John Ray

  Thinking, People, Reform

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• Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them

  Liev Schreiber

  Kids, Littles, Film

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• Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There's not a lot of realistic, observant writing about the West right now.

  Walter Kirn

  Writing, Tired, Views

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• To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.

  Walt Disney

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Succeed

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• I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.

  Elijah Wood

  Music, Insane, Littles

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• Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Fighting, Friendly, Way

  Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

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• The world of psychology and the world of normal life tends to look down on obsession. It's not good for you, and certainly not good for your relationships. It's not good for a lot of things, but it's the only way to make a work of art.

  Michael Ventura

  Art, Psychology, Looks

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

  Michael Ventura

  Artist, Damn

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Why is it so many political parties never learn that lesson? There was an obsession on the right to get [Hillary] Clinton. There was an obsession on the left to get - frankly, look at - look at the liberals in the early 1980s with [Ronald] Reagan. They got so caught up in the personality that they could n`t see the forest.

  Chuck Todd

  Party, Political, Personality

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don't know if it's shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.

  Greg Mottola

  Song, Silly, College

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• I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

  Isabel Allende

  Needs, Stories, Deals

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• The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Excess, Spirit, Moderation

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• Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Religious, Acceptance, Punishment

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• Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

  Adrian Tan

  Each Day, Enthusiasm, Restless

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• I definitely have a Google obsession of Juliette Binoche. I'm obsessed. I'll read everything she's ever said. I can tell you anything you want to know about Juliette Binoche, or Jack White. Those are my two creepy obsessions.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Two, White, Google

  Source: collider.com

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• Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Texas, Cities

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.125, Penguin

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• It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Passion, Thinking About You, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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