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• You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, only hysteria is the thing that strikes a hysterical press as most worthy of note.

  Stella Benson

  Thinking, Hysteria, Movement

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.

  Mark Steyn

  Country, Issues, Political

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• What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.

  Hannah Arendt

  Men, Sensual, Stubborn

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Liars, Men, May

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.

  Ruth Buzzi

  Comedy, Hours, Given

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• People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.

  Julia Child

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Love is very funny business. And sex - well, let's face it, sex is hysterical.

  Nora Roberts

  Sex, Love Is, Faces

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• Two bones fell down my chimney and into the bedroom this morning. Hysterical thing to happen to a thriller writer. Murderous ravens perhaps?

  Tobsha Learner

  Morning, Ravens, Two

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• I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

  Rex Stout

  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

  Rex Stout (2010). “Triple Jeopardy”, p.76, Bantam

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• Baby, after considerable thought I've reached the conclusion that the only conceivable legitimate answer to the Universe as constituted is a peal of hysterical laughter.

  Keith Laumer

  Baby, Laughter, Answers

  Keith Laumer (2016). “Night of Delusions”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope with my own poems that the reader feels a connection, soul to soul, that'll help us all feel a little less alone on the planet. And it does have the power to direct change. A writer can make the word 'dark' be something positive. You can relieve a word like 'hysterical' of its misogynistic implications. You can make the language your own. That's what poetry is about.

  Rita Dove

  Dark, Soul, Littles

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• It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts.

  Sybil Thorndike

  Play, People

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

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• There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

  Rachel Cusk

  Art, Character, Creating

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• The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

  Mason Cooley

  Suffering, Littles, Too Much

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• Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering.

  Fred Barnes

  Fall, Men, Fear Mongering

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• It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash.

  Stephen King

  Hot Flashes, Hot, Flash

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family.

  Sloane Crosley

  Phones, Cells, Tears

  Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.35, Penguin

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• If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Laughter, Break, Right Now

  Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory (2009). “The Phoenix Transformed: Book Three of the Enduring Flame”, p.189, Macmillan

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• Saiman picked up a coffee mug, stared at it, and hurled it against the wall. It shattered into a dozen pieces. We looked at him. “Your date appears to be hysterical,” Rene told me. “You think I should slap some man into him?

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Coffee, Men

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.76, Penguin

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• We've both with Justine Beck done other things - and do other things - outside of Glassjaw. But Glassjaw's the most shining professional thing I've been part of. And the fact it's happening on the scale is both an honor and it's funny. Its hysterical. It's a fun ride. The whole world's different.

  Daryl Palumbo

  Fun, Shining, Honor

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• It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Hair, Risk, Wizards

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen. Nothing did. “This isn’t good,” Quen said. I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical.

  Kim Harrison

  Laughter, Doors, Knowing

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• I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something: Maybe I can’t hold a gun. But I have a knife in my back pocket.

  Veronica Roth

  Gun, Knives, Laughing

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• A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hair, Years, Volunteer

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.150, Scholastic

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• Your date appears to be hysterical," Rene told me. "You think I should slap some man into him?

  Ilona Andrews

  Men, Thinking, Should

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.76, Penguin

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