Social Obsession Quotes

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.

When I came to England I was quite surprised to see that you people have it too. But why people are so interested in other people's private lives is beyond me. It's like group hypnosis, or something - a giant distraction.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen.

Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.

The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about.

People are obsessed. There's an incredibly large group of people that spend most of their time considering other people's lives. It's strange to me.

There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them.

People are just fascinated by assassinations.

People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

I wake up and check my Instagram to see what I missed out on last night. Then I check my Twitter. Then I check my Tumblr.

Life is like Twitter: nobody wants to sign off.

Many find ourselves in this strange consumerist entertainment bubble where celebrities have become the golden cows of our time that we love to worship and destroy.

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at.

Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.

After all, is football a game or a religion?

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.