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«It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun.»
Author: Anita Loos
(Novelist, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
adult, economical, France, Frenchman, Frenchmen, obsession, provides, the French, thriftiest
«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.»
Author: Barbra Streisand
(Actress, Producer, Singer)
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
details, obsession, obsessive, perfectionist, perfectionists, searching
«I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.»
«Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.»
Author: Claude Monet
| Keywords:
analyzing, appropriately, automatically, Caught in The Act, deathbed, deathbeds, focusing, graded, grades, imposing, motionless, obsession, succession, temples, torment
«Even in a country like the USA where fitness has become an obsession, most people exercising do not seem to think it illogical to drive automobiles to gyms while doing their best to avoid walking»
Author: Dave Wilson
| About:
Exercise
| Keywords:
automobiles, exercising, fitness, gym, gyms, illogical, obsession, the USA, U.S.A., USA
«Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.»
Author: Elie Wiesel
(Writer)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
degenerated, degenerates, degenerating, Marks, obsession, obsessions, risks, sharing
«Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
absurdity, addiction, bank, bank account, bastard, cabinet, cabinets, collecting, cousin, fascination, fascinations, hobbies, obsession, occupation, of sound mind, sister, stamp, trophies, trophy
«?If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.?»
Author: Carlos Castaneda
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
a great deal, gently, great deal, obsession, obsessions, stress, stressed, stresses, Stressing, warrior
«High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Beethoven, characterizes, Considering, European, napoleon, obsession, perversion, perversions, predecessor, relay, relayed, relay race, Robespierre, runner, runners, runner up, stadium, stadiums, successor, surpassed, surpasses, The Runner, The Sequence
«A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
least resistance, obsession, obsessions, resistance, sales, sales resistance
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