Obsessive Quotes - Page 6

• I'm still an obsessive personality, and I still think I'm right, and I still believe my literary balls hang far lower than nearly anyone else's alive.

  Jim Goad

  Believe, Thinking, Personality

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.

  Chuck Lorre

  Sports, Spiritual, Believe

  "Running A Comedy Machine: How Chuck Lorre Makes Hits". "Morning Edition", www.kmuw.org. November 27, 2012.

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• Here we observe the basic obsessive fantasy of Žižek's position: do nothing, sit still, prefer not to, like Melville's Bartleby, and silently dream of a ruthless violence, a consolidation of state power into one man's hands, an act of brutal physical force of which you are the object or the subject or both at once.

  Simon Critchley

  Dream, Men, Hands

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• Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

  Charles de Lint

  Teenager, Book, Obsessive Love

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• I did miss the music a bit - but only in the wings, when I was waiting to go on. It seemed dreadfully quiet, rather unnerving. But the wonderful thing was that one didn't have to be quite so obsessive about one's health, and one's voice.

  Elaine Paige

  Wings, Voice, Waiting

  "Show Girl". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2000.

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• I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues.

  Craig Finn

  Looks, Clue, Listeners

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My characters' addictions are what makes them a bit stylized or "grotesque" - not just in appearance but through what drives them. Addiction is what threatens stability and normalcy and yet it seems very much a part of being human - at least we are all a bit obsessive and compulsive. Aren't all humans driven by mad desires for one thing or another?

  Porochista Khakpour

  Character, Addiction, Mad

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.

  Sarah Stillman

  Space, Listening, Details

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm accustomed to just working by myself, alone in the room and cranking up the music and just working and getting all into an obsessive state where I'm focused on this thing, and it's the one thing that I feel like I may have a little bit of control over in my life.

  Eric Drooker

  May, Littles, Rooms

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

  Kiese Laymon

  Writing, And Love, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.

  C. Sommerville

  Children, Childhood, World

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• I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness.

  Stephen Starr

  Interviews, Sickness, Employee

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• Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.

  Gangaji

  Ocean, Negative, Emotion

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• It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source.

  James W. Hall

  Love, Hunger, Twisted

  James W. Hall (2007). “Magic City: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf' And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.'

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Team, Kids, Knights

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• In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

  Marya Mannes

  Passion, Long, Dying

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• I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Past, Habit, Quaint

  "The Handmaid's Tale". Book by Margaret Atwood, 1985.

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• Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.

  Tim Howard

  Kids, Years, Brain

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• Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience.

  Tilopa

  Philosophy, Light, Discipline

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• Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wounding us deeply. Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative commentaries. This pattern must be recognized early and definitively. Peace of mind is actually an oxymoron. When you're in your mind, you're hardly ever at peace, and when you're at peace, you're never only in your mind.

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Hate, People

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• If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

  Georges Bataille

  Emotional, Giving, Elements

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• A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

  D. B. Weiss

  Self, Males, Abiding

  D. B. Weiss (2003). “Lucky Wander Boy”, Plume Books

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• I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes.

  Chris Hardwick

  Guy, Cubes, Kind

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm a slow reader but I'm obsessive. I make references, underline things, cross-reference. I'm an autodidact.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Book, Ipads, Hobbies

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