Mad Quotes - Page 10

• We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

  Billy Childish

  Believe, People, Freak

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• The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons they had targeted at each other, would not apply to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran. For him (Ahmadinejad), Mutual Assured Destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement.

  Bernard Lewis

  Philosophy, War, Iran

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• The new 'Mad Max' movie takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. I have a small part in 'Mad Max.' I play the old geezer who remembers what steak tasted like.

  David Letterman

  Play, Max, World

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• Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

  Irving Layton

  Firsts

  Irving Layton (1989). “Selected Poems, 1945-89: A Wild Peculiar Joy”

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• If I hurt somebody's feelings, I go right to them and talk to them and explain what happens. Sometimes I'm mad at myself because I left a pitch in the middle. It's big when you leave a pitch in the middle. When I make that mistake, it's frustrating for me. I have to think about what I did wrong and go to the next step.

  Carlos Zambrano

  Hurt, Mistake, Thinking

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• He pitches better when he's mad, so I try to make him that way.

  Jorge Posada

  Yankees, Trying, Way

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• The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Goal

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• Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.

  Andrew Tudor

  Sleep, Psychosis, Monsters

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• A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• Our players are mad, but it's good mad.

  Nancy Lopez

  Sports, Player

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• When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Decision, Brain

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• Trading has taught me not to take the conventional wisdom for granted. What money I made in trading is testimony to the fact that the majority is wrong a lot of the time. The vast majority is wrong even more of the time. I've learned that markets, which are often just mad crowds, are often irrational; when emotionally overwrought, they're almost always wrong.

  Richard Dennis

  Majority, Crowds, Taught

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• So let me tell you this, when it comes to...trying to introduce other people to Jesus. Don't get mad at them: it's not because they're stupid. It's because they're blind. Yelling louder, arguing harder, pushing firmer won't make someone who is blind see. Pray for them, speak to them, care for them.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Stupid, Yelling

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• It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.

  Sue Townsend

  Suicide, People, Rotten

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• You know daytime television? You know what it's supposed to be for? It's to keep unemployed people happy. It's supposed to stop them running to the social security demanding mad luxuries like cookers and windows.

  Victoria Wood

  Running, Luxury, People

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• Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Knives, Wife, Smoking

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1865). “Verses and Translations”, p.61

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• High in the sky is a bird on a wing
  Please carry me with you
  Far far away from the mad rushing crowd
  Please carry me with you.

  Tom Springfield

  Sky, Wings, Rushing

  "Song: 'Island of Dreams'". 1961.

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• We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Thinking, Curtains, Chasms

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• I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year.

  Aubrey McClendon

  Beach, New York, Years

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• Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.

  Matt Ruff

  Numbers, Alive, Tradition

  Matt Ruff (2012). “Fool on the Hill: A Novel”, p.210, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.

  Willard Wigan

  Hair, Professors

  "Microsculptor's Incredible Hulk Fits in Eye of Needle" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. August 19, 2009.

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• Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.

  Giacomo Balla

  Running, Horse, Moving

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• If I had a normal life Id quite cheerfully go mad and fall over right now

  Kurt Wagner

  Fall, Normal, Right Now

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• I genuinely believed no one would want to marry me. I am difficult to live with. I'm selfish, quite weird and I need time on my own to think - and then I work all night long. That is difficult for someone to deal with. And it would drive me mad - I could never be my own girlfriend!

  Simon Cowell

  Girlfriend, Selfish, Night

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  If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Expectations, People, Perception

  "Star Wars, Thor: The Dark World, Arrow: January 4th Comic Reel". Empire Online, www.cbr.com. January 4, 2013.

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