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• I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, World, Pills

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• I don't like Paradise, as they probably don't have obsessions there.

  Alda Merini

  Heaven, Paradise

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• The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Hate, Past

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• He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

  Elias Canetti

  Death, Dying, Guilty

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• I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that my lyrics are poetry. ... Poems are poems. Song lyrics are for songs.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Writing, Want

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• I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Men, Ideas, People

  Nic Pizzolatto (2011). “Galveston: A Novel”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

  Joss Whedon

  Beautiful, Art

  "The MoJo Interview: Joss Whedon". Interview with Sheerly Avni, www.motherjones.com. November, 2008.

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• I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Mad, House, Lovely

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• I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot of it does involve some aspect of me, they find it self-aggrandizing. But there’s a long tradition of artists using themselves. Look, I know I’m not perfect. And, who knows, maybe a part of it has to do with self-obsession. But it’s also about using this weird thing that is a public persona as raw material for creative projects.

  James Franco

  Artist, Self, Long

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• One of my symptoms included my obsession with ghosts and law enforcement - I carry around a police badge with me, for example. I became obsessed by Hans Holzer, the greatest ghost hunter ever. That's when the idea of my film Ghostbusters was born.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Law, Ideas, Police

  "Dan Aykroyd: 'I have Asperger's - one of my symptoms included being obsessed with ghosts' 'I have Asperger's - one of my symptoms included being obsessed with ghosts': Under the microscope with Dan Aykroyd". Interview with Sarah Ewing, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 10, 2013.

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• I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.

  Yvonne Strahovski

  Games, Bird, Video

  "Exclusive: Yvonne Strahovski Talks KILLER ELITE, the Final Season of CHUCK & Working With Streisand and Rogen in MY MOTHER’S CURSE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

  Donald Glover

  Book, Kids, Aspergers

  "GQ&A: Donald Glover". Interview with Andy Morris, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. March 29, 2012.

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• Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Jobs, Care, Eating

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• I feel the sexiest when I'm by myself, walking around nude. I have this new obsession with nudity, it's really weird. It may sound weird, but I just really love embracing the body.

  Ciara

  Sound, Body, May

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• Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Giving Up, Law, Use

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• I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Opportunity, Speak, Environment

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• If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Ambition, Golf

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• I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

  Laurence Housman

  Healthy, Trying, Orthodoxy

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• You have yearned to have my affection cloak your delicate spirit, accept the pretense of my craving to consume your soul as a symptom of a greater obsession that can only be extinguished by your merciful hand.

  Philip the Apostle

  Hands, Soul, Spirit

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• Indigo has a purifying, stabilizing, cleansing effect when fear, repression, and obsessions have disturbed your mental body. Indigo food vibrations are: blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, purple brocoli, beetroot, and purple grapes.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Purple, Blue, Vibrations

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• I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.

  Jenna Jameson

  Young, Without Trust, Stills

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• I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an 80 percent proficiency level. To go beyond that requires an obsession that doesn't appeal to me. Once I reach 80 percent level I like to go off and do something totally different; that probably explains the diversity of the Patagonia product like - and why our versatile, multifaceted clothes are the most successful.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Sports, Successful, Clothes

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• The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory genius of the Greeks; no primitive peoples have ever come to study us. This is, on the one hand, a disinterested, intellectually inspired impulse. It is one of our glories. But it is, on the other, part and parcel of exploitation. [] The Western obsession with inquiry, with analysis, with the classification of all living forms, is itself a mode of subjugation, of psychological and technical mastery.

  George Steiner

  Spring, Unique, Men

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• Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.

  Helen Fisher

  Motivation, Inspiration, Romantic Love

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• I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

  Lanford Wilson

  Atoms, Bombs, Firsts

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