There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.
Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.
You don't change the world out of obligation, but you will out of glorious obsession.
Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.
In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.
Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.
With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.
Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.
A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.
I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together. . . it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.
Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.
The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential.
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.
The element of obsession is terribly important for an artist.