#obsessions

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#ideas #much #obsessions #people #represents

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#aimed #also #award #bangladesh #basic

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

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I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football. ↗

— Alan Davies

#i #inclined #linger #magazine #more

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#audience #back #care #eating #every

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life. ↗

— Mary Ellen Mark

#human #human condition #life #lives #mine