Insane Quotes - Page 33

• It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Best Love, Winning, Answers

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• I'm very grounded - that's how I would put it. If you met my mother, you'd probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened.

  Tracy Pollan

  Mother, Mets, Grounded

  "Oprah Talks to Michael J. Fox & Tracy Pollan". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 15, 2001.

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• I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

  Jonathan Ames

  Beautiful, Book, Role Models

  "'Bored to Death' creator Jonathan Ames". Interview with Robert Lloyd, latimesblogs.latimes.com. November 14, 2011.

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• I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.

  Nellie Bly

  Thinking, Release, Keepers

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.5, Nellie Bly

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• I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

  Nellie Bly

  Desire, Asylums, Creatures

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.6, Golgotha Press

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• The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly.

  Nigel Cole

  Nice, Directors, Hollywood

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• I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

  Neko Case

  Country, Hate, Independent

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• You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Book, House, Trying

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• I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

  John Avlon

  Party, Believe, Responsibility

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• I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.

  Lily Allen

  Girl, Jobs, Couple

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.

  Alan Jackson

  Strong, Past, Alcohol

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• What are you doing son, you're gonna drive yourself insane. You'll never find the sunshine, when you're following the rain.

  Tim McGraw

  Family, Rain, Sunshine

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• He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.

  Johnny Cash

  Order, Law, Jail

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• It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

  Puff Daddy

  Crazy, Being Crazy, Okay

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• In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

  Edie Falco

  Laughter, Celebration, Household

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• On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think.

  Martin Freeman

  Cutting, Thinking, Hands

  "Martin Freeman: 'I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised'". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2010.

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• I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.

  Seth Gabel

  Real, Thinking, Normal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Ideas, Sandwiches, Passionate

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• If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.

  John C. McGinley

  Land, Watches, Stories

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• Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Pain, Revenge, Lying

  Song: My Jekyll Doesn't Hide, Album: Ozzmosis

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• What drives me to you, drives me insane.

  Bob Dylan

  Endearment

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• I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

  Taylor Kitsch

  Play, Guy, Risk

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• If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends on how easily you're startled, I guess.

  Jenny Lawson

  Scare, Stuff, Hell

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'

  Eli Roth

  Stars, School, Night

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 17, 2009.

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• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  Samantha Morton

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

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