I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm…

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist…

— Iris Murdoch

I don't understand people's obsessions.

— FKA twigs

It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.

— Amber Dermont

“It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.”

— Dick Francis

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

— Ian Fleming

I'm really interested in the United States, what it means to be American - maybe because my father's an immigrant and my grandparents were…

— Micah Perks

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something…

— Reggie Watts

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.

— Reggie Watts

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

— Elizabeth Kostova

A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the…

— Michael Leunig

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist

— Clifford Geertz

“And what does an anthropologist do these days?" sad Paul. "Same thing a supernumerary minister does--becomes a public charge, a bore, or possibly a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

— Annia Ciezadlo

An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they…

— David Letterman