"I have hobbies. I do all sorts of ridiculous things."
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"Skating has so many styles. Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle."
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"If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby."
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"History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system."
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"I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work."
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"The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then."
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"God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality."
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"Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood."
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"Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies."
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"Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies"
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"I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it."
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"Modeling was something that fell into my lap. It was fun to travel and make money, but it always seemed like a hobby."
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"Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes."
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"Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing."
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"Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby."
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"In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet."
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"You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination."
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"If you're really worried about the effect of "Silent Night" on the kids, you need a hobby or something, and I'm glad you're pointing that out."
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"It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits."
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"I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime."
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