Craze Quotes

• Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Generosity, Giving, Facts

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.758, Simon and Schuster

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• My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

  Paul Theroux

  Islands, Self, World

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• The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Art, Redemption, Crafts

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• Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

  Ewan McGregor

  Serious, Politician, Courses

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• The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.

  Andy Grove

  Money, Healthy, Example

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It's completely pointless.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Real, Annoyed, Understanding

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• It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, People, Tragedy

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• Running is something you just do. You don’t need a goal. You don’t need a race. You don’t need the hype of a so-called fitness craze. All you need is a cheap pair of shoes and some time; the rest will follow.

  Ted Corbitt

  Running, Race, Shoes

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• The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Family, Divorce, Epidemics

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• The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.

  Benjamin Walker

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.

  Andre Rieu

  Personality, Made, Waltz

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ayo for yayo
  Walk around with yayo, all in my nasal
  I must have been craze yo

  Andre Nickatina

  Hip Hop, Walks, Has Beens

  Song: Ayo, 2006

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• When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

  Anna Sui

  Punk, Reactions, Disco

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• Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Men, Civilization

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• Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Taken, Fighting, Artist

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.96, Modern Library

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• Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body.

  George Carlin

  Fitness, America, Soul

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid ball required to be hit for carry, whereas it was quickly apparent that the Haskell lent itself to an enormous run. I hold the firm opinion that from this date the essential attitude towards accuracy was completely lost sight of. This was the start of the craze for length and still more length.

  Harry Vardon

  Running, Attitude, Golf

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• The radio craze will die out in time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Radio, Dies

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• Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.

  Brian Wilson

  Summer, Beach, Kids

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• I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D craze, which was coming at you in Jaws 3D, so I've always wanted to make a 3D film.

  Eli Roth

  Fans, Film, Wanted

  Source: collider.com

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• There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Guitar, Two

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• In the '90s, there was a big bell-bottom craze. Everyone was wearing grungy bell-bottoms. It was so repugnant to me.

  Justin Theroux

  Bells, Bigs, Bottom

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Legs, Fads

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved it. I was in love with Edward before every other girl that says she's in love with him was. Because I read them a long time ago shooting a movie in Salt Lake City, and one of Stephenie Meyer's friends said, 'Make sure you read my friend's book.'

  Nina Dobrev

  Girl, Book, Twilight

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• I was never obese, but I felt 'less than' because I wasn't as thin as other actresses. I totally fell for that low-fat craze. My goal was to be X jeans size or a specific number on the scale.

  Alison Sweeney

  Jeans, Numbers, Goal

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