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I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

~A. Scott Berg

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I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

~Alan Cumming

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While my seemingly compulsive school-hopping has raised some eyebrows among my peers and caused my parents understandable consternation, I do not regret it.

~Alexandra Adornetto

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I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

~Alexis Korner

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When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It's no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals.

~Andrew Weil

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I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

~Astro Teller

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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

~Bette Davis

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I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.

~Betty White

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I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right.

~Bobby Davro

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I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.

~Charlie Kaufman

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