Borderline Quotes

• Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Fall, Clueless, Axes

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• The Republicans have a high Beady-Eyed Self-Righteous Scary Borderline Loon Quotient, as evidenced by Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Robertson, the entire state of Utah, etc.

  Dave Barry

  Self, Utah, Scary

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Turns Forty”, p.124, Ballantine Books

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• People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.

  Marsha M. Linehan

  Emotional, Agony, People

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• Well, it's not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I'm borderline establishment, I'm hanging on by my toenails - but I'm establishment.

  Dennis Hopper

  Hanging On, Toenails, Establishment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

  Ariel Gore

  Mother, Years, Narcissist

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• The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

  Henry Rollins

  Hero, Men, Average

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• I was a borderline guy in the NFL.

  Darren Flutie

  Nfl, Guy

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• Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell you which number to press. If you have borderline personality disorder hang up; you have already pushed everybody's buttons.

  Barbara Oakley

  Voice, Numbers, Personality

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• Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Humility, Play, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer.

  Jason Segel

  Heart, Special, Bears

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• For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

  Karl Rove

  Usa, Politics, Blame

  "A Love-Hate Relationship?". www.washingtonpost.com. April 10, 2009.

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• I don't often know where my ideas come from. Maybe it's the fact that I'm obsessively regimented in my analysis, borderline autistic. But whether it's bond selection or asset allocation, we can do it better than just about anybody around.

  Jeffrey Gundlach

  Ideas, Analysis, Facts

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• I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

  Zoey Deutch

  Design, Wells, Clothings

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• There's no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create.

  Madonna Ciccone

  I Can

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• We were young, we were wild, we were restless
  Had to go, had to fly, had to get away
  Took a chance on that feelin'
  We were lovin' blind borderline wreckless
  We were livin' for the minute we were spinnin' in
  Baby we were alot of things, but we weren't crazy

  Josh Gracin

  Country, Song, Baby

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• I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.

  Bob Dylan

  Goodbye, Beast

  Song: Idiot Wind, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

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• Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful in the mind with passing time. In those early morning dreams when I come back to bed after a sleepy pee and fall quickly into the narrow end of the night, there is one set of streets I keep returning to, one dim mist of railroad rooms and certain figures reappear, borderline ghosts.

  Don DeLillo

  Dream, Morning, Powerful

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• I think the penalties are grossly unfair. I think it's borderline shameful.

  Matt Kenseth

  Thinking, Unfair, Penalties

  "Q and A: Kenseth Calls Penalties ‘Grossly Unfair’". Racin' Today interview, www.racintoday.com. April 25, 2013.

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• ...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

  Richard Dawkins

  Facts, Evolution, Illusion

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.340, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.

  Timothy Leary

  Names, Skins, Technique

  "Leary calls LSD 'sacrament'". The Tech, p. 6, November 08, 1966.

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• And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on occasion, when I wish to see what people with unpleasant skin conditions are wearing, I do take the subway. I have never, I am proud to say, taken the bus, because people who take the bus have given up.

  Paul Rudnick

  Taken, People, Wish

  Paul Rudnick (2009). “I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey”, Harper

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• Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

  Zoey Deutch

  Fashion, Design, Lines

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• It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter

  William S. Burroughs

  Fall, Independent, Quality

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.167, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there.

  Will Smith

  Believe, Thinking, Would Be

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• Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't stop to think or reason. He acts on instinct, like a stable animal, convinced he's doing good, that he's always right, and sanctimoniously proud to go around f***ing up ... anyone he perceives to be different from himself, be it because of skin color, creed, language, nationality, or ... leisure habits. What the world needs is more thoroughly evil people and fewer borderline pigheads.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Animal, Thinking, Skin Color

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