Obsessive Quotes
188 quotes by 175 authors
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Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled…
— Jay Griffiths
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I am not obsessive about anything except my health.
— Linda Gray
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
— Hanif Kureishi
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Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who…
— Will Self
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Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times.…
— Victor Salva
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The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or…
— Abraham Maslow
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Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.
— Dave Matthews
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Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.
— Michael Heseltine
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These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to…
— Jacques Derrida
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While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
— Robert Genn
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The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for…
— Selima Hill
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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…
— Charles de Lint
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I become kind of obsessive about research.
— James Franco
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Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.
— Ginnifer Goodwin
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My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times,…
— Simon Cowell
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I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat…
— Daniel Craig
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The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off…
— Penelope Cruz
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'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've…
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.
— Mos Def
Who Wrote These Obsessive Quotes
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