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Preoccupation Quotes (page 2)

Bell Hooks quote: "In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is..."
In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable. Bell Hooks
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human..."
He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human race, its preoccupation with money, it love of swindle. Jeffrey Eugenides
Our passionate preoccupation with the sun, the stars and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. Eric Hoffer
...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all. Wilkie Collins
Indeed the state of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but the most wretched are those who are toiling not even at their own preoccupations, but must regulate their sleep by another's, and their walk by another's pace, and obey orders in those freest of all things, loving and hating. If such people want to know how short their lives are, let them reflect how small a portion is their own. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Gaudium is what I dream of: to enjoy a lifelong pleasure. But being unable to accede to Gaudium, from which I am separated by a thousand obstacles, I dream of falling back on Laetitia: if I could manage to confine myself to the lively pleasures the other affords me, without contaminating them, mortifying them by the anxiety which serves as their hinge? If I could take an anthological view of the amorous relation? If I were to understand, initially, that a great preoccupation does not include... Roland Barthes
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. Andrew Motion
Wesley Morris quote: "Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right..."
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. Wesley Morris
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. Robert Morgan
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. Arthur Erickson
Sidney Poitier quote: "We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in..."
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection. Sidney Poitier
To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country. Nancy Travis
Wynton Marsalis quote: "Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has..."
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. Wynton Marsalis
Peter Mandelson quote: "Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect..."
Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations. Peter Mandelson
Steven Spielberg quote: "I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary..."
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. Steven Spielberg

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