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“The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.”

“I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.”

Long Long Time Hundred Shoes Obsession Obsessed Pairs Collecting Pair Of Shoes

Author:Christian Louboutin

“Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.”

Humans Answers Activity Obsession Coming Back Human Activity

Author:Norman Mailer

“I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.”

Thinking Looks Whole Shows Beautiful Obsession Curves Skinny

Author:Vanessa Marcil

“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.”

Men Inspirational Left Imagination Results Courage Empowerment Obsession Obsessed Self Empowerment Usefulness

Book:Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Source: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

“Dancing is my obsession. My life.”

Dancing Obsession

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.”

Found Strange Machines Obsession Buying Gears Analogue

Author:Moby

“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”

Long Art Motivational Joy Color Painting Obsession Painter Colour Torment Deathbed Crayon Bright Colors

Book:Claude Monet

Source: Claude Monet

“Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.”

Spiritual Lost Our Lives Doors Magic Discovery Tales Kingdoms Obsession Obsessed Fairy Fairy Tale Fairytale Magic Kingdom

Book:More Stately Mansions: The Unexpurgated Edition

Source: More Stately Mansions: The Unexpurgated Edition

“Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.”

Thinking Mines Economics Obsession Zero

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.”

People Thinking Want Ideas Real Moving Real Life Obsession Life Changing Moderation Deprivation Fries French Fries

Author:Michelle Obama

“I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.”

Obsession Piano Obsessed Classical Music

Author:Gary Oldman

“I think life's an irrational obsession.”

Thinking Obsession Irrational

Author:Sean Penn

“My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.”

Self Happens Suffering Personality Right Now Significant Obsession Disorder Multiple Multiple Personalities Self Obsession Significant Other Personality Disorders

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.”

Kind Kids Dark Particular Absolutes West Obsession Touched Chicago Sixty Coast Mississippi West Coast American Music Delta Americana Mississippi Delta Delta Blues Chicago Blues

Author:Robert Plant

“In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.”

Soul Security Losing Europe Obsession Nationalism Haste

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.”

People Next Born Doors Hollywood Obsession

Author:Robert Redford

“Any obsession is dangerous.”

Dangerous Actresses Obsession Obsessed Mania

Author:Christina Ricci

“I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.”

Country Whole Pay Attention One Thing Dangerous Right Now Whole Life Ridiculous Obsession Obsessed Jeans Therapists Carbohydrates

Author:Christina Ricci

“Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.”

Way Writing Book Character Desire Literature Challenges Written Obsession Theme Consumed

Author:Anne Rice

“I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.”

Thinking Book Moments Quiet Obsession Faster Appreciated Quiet Moments

Author:Candice Bergen

“'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.”

People Trying Long Ideas Today Faces Moving White Crazy Youth Standing Tales Snow Obsession Vanity Fairy Fairy Tale Bizarre Snow White

Author:Julia Roberts

“The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people.”

People Religious Liberty Rights Lows Conscience Obsession Administration Mandates Religious Liberty

Author:Marco Rubio

“People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.”

People Personality Obsession Obsessed Fascinated Private Life Intrigued

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.”

Values Perfection Sick Obsession Traditional Artistic Epic Purification

Author:Jerry Saltz

“The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.”

Writing Trade Violent Obsession Authorship Indestructible

Author:George Sand

“I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.”

Ifs Thinking Stories Obsession Aliens Zombie Personal Stories

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.”

Ideas Speed Flying Obsession Obsessed Filmmaking Visionaries

Author:Martin Scorsese

“When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.”

Way Care Opportunity India Including Gender Practicals Obsession My Way Health Care Awards Literacy Equity Nobel Bangladesh

Author:Amartya Sen

“I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.”

Needs Order Natural Obsession Laziness

Author:Vikram Seth

“I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.”

Thinking Looks Obsession Obsessed Prisoner

Author:Juliette Binoche

“I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.”

Needs Film Intense Obsession Only Love

Author:Jacqueline Bisset

“For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.”

Persons Done Song My Own Obsession Obsessed Tunes

Author:Bjork

“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.”

Care Jobs Audience Eating Obsession Filmmaker Good Writers

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.”

People Ifs Men One Thing Smart Intelligence Obsession Attractive Attractive Things

Author:Meryl Streep

“I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.”

Thinking Art Artist Names Difficult Details Be Good Architecture Obsession Artistic Obsessive Perfectionist

Author:Barbra Streisand

“Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.”

Ends Fall Passion Interesting Emotion Danger Color Red Falling In Love Obsession Frustration Infatuation Spectrum Falling In Love With You Anger And Frustration

Author:Taylor Swift

“I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.”

Knows Needs Writing Answers Knowing Happened Skins Obsession Bother

Author:Taylor Swift

“What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.”

Thinking Trying Stories Alive Drama Property Come Up Theatre Obsession Angle

Author:Pete Townshend

“The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.”

Artist Literature Risk Obsession Willingness Excess Behalf Refusal Entertainers Adventurer

Book:Assorted Prose

Source: Assorted Prose

“Without obsession, life is nothing.”

Life Is Obsession

Author:John Waters

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.”

People Remember Desire Literature Memories Jew Resilience Obsession Characteristics Holocaust Judaism

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.”

Ifs Want Book Our Lives Style Obsession Obsessed

Author:Rachel Zoe

“Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.”

People Littles Kids Grew Grew Up Areas Surprise Obsession Obsessed Hockey Little Kid Boston

Author:Rob Zombie

“Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India.”

Country America Film Space Shots India Clean Studios London Obsession Indian Switzerland

Author:Anurag Kashyap

“We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...”

Guy Names Poverty Crime Television Products Concern Murder Lifestyle Obsession Magazines Consumers Consumerism Underwear Viagra

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.”

Self Whole Order Choices Social Responsibility Consequence Independent Obsession Disconnected Social Order Self Destruct

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?”

Ifs Knows Needs Littles Hate Passion Grows Felt Huge Dignity Weak Pity Obsession Desperate Far Away Disgusting Monstrous Love And Hate

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.”

Moments Civilization Obsession Decline Sole

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

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