Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.
Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.
It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.
I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
Unfortunately, as obsessed as I am with all of those Grimm's slash Disney princesses, I do think women have evolved socially in so many ways.
I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.
I love you. That is the beginning, that is the end. That is everything.
I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four.
It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.
The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.
I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, 'If she's the best female rapper then I've got to be better than her.'
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.
Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
