Steve Martin Quotes
With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
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I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.
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My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.
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My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.
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I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
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I love flat shoes, more so than heels. One of my obsessions is men's co-respondent lace-ups.
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Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.
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I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
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Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
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Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.
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These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.
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If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.
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I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.
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There are three categories of people in America: those who are afraid, those who don't know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.
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Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
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Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously.
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The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.
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It is never acceptable for us to be the cause of any child to feel unloved or worthless.
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I have to tell you I am losing a little patience with what appears to me to be an almost pathological obsession with calling into question the actions of men and women who are on the front lines of the war on terror.
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While loyalists and defectors overall said John Smith did a better job of standing up for Labour's values, they put Blair ahead on representing the whole country, appealing beyond traditional Labour voters and offering strong, competent leadership; switchers to the Tories gave him a clear lead in all categories.
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The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love. That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the world's full octave. Love as Agape, Eros and Philos; love as infatuation, obsession and lust; love as torture, euphoria, ecstasy and oblivion (this is beginning to read like a Calvin Klein perfume catalogue); love as need, passion and desire.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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I was an eight-year-old kid when I watched the first Apollo Moon Landing way back in 1969 and there was something about that moment that really stuck in my head. I'd always been interested in space and flying and I was building model rockets and model airplanes, but something about that moment, I can remember like it was yesterday watching the Apollo Lunar Lander approach the surface of the Moon and then later watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take the first steps on the Moon, and something that day started the dream for me that, hey, I want to be like those guys.
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With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
