"The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves."
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"Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession."
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"In our culture, security has become an obsession."
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"We see each other [ with Iman Abdulmajid] a lot. I couldn't stand to be separated for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time."
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"You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit."
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"Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest."
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"With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious."
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"Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born."
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"I'm really obsessed with the past."
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"Aristocratic depression has this cosmic dimension to it, where it's asking these big questions about, "Why?" "What is the purpose of all this?" Neuroses of the middle class is the banishment of aristocratic depression, because it's kind of this obsession with quotidian detail that pushes these larger questions away."
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"Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity."
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"Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly."
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