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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

This is an issue that should be raised often because it is a central preoccupation of very large numbers of Americans and because people now look at the Republican program, the Bush program, as being a disaster.

Mark Mellman

Constant preoccupation with food, weight, and body image is a sign that an eating disorder is sapping energy from other areas of life.

Abby Aronowitz

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

Katherine Whitehorn

This government's preoccupation with race has nothing to do with empowering those disadvantaged by apartheid. It has everything to do with empowering a small elite through cronyism and patronage.

Helen Zille

He worked harder than anybody. But he was never plagued by the kind of preoccupation with style and the idea of how an artist in New York should be. He was never concerned with being appropriately hip.

Gregory Amenoff

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

Edmund Wilson