Insane Quotes - Page 40

• For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

  Mary Webb

  Soul, Doe, Conformity

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• I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.

  Susan Straight

  Riding, Eccentric, Loser

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• A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane.

  Toby Hemenway

  Culture, Disconnected

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• It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and typed out then tweeted immediately, with little or no regard for how others might perceive them, simply because they were in a state of emotional desperation and felt like they didn't want to express those thoughts to anyone else.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Emotional, Want, Littles

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How can one research dangerous areas without uncovering dangerous information? How can you uncover dangerous information without it falling into the hands of insane people who will sooner or later destroy the human race, if not the whole of life on earth?" Who knows? God only knows!

  Pete Seeger

  Fall, Race, Hands

  Source: portside.org

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• I have this insane optimistic streak that the American people prevail over the stupidity that the leadership exhibits time and time again, and I think that's the truth.

  Lewis Black

  Optimistic, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• [On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Men, Giving, Looks

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait fi", Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour ("qui honorent", Fr.) humanity.

  African Spir

  Hero, Sacrifice, Men

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 38), 1937.

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• While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Mean, Self, Expression

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• You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.

  James Wolk

  Stars, Rocks, Emcee

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• After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

  Clive Owen

  Writing, Years, Pages

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• I wouldnt say Malkovich is totally insane, but hes not living in the real world. Hes living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.

  Martha Plimpton

  Real, World, Fine

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• There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Mom, Mother, Nuts

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• There is no community service in Seinfeld. But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

  Jason Alexander

  Thinking, Community, Banality

  "The End of 'Seinfeld'". www.rollingstone.com. May 28, 1998.

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• You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.

  Eric Idle

  Mother, Kids, Thinking

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• You have to be insane to direct.

  Morris Chestnut

  Direct

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

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• A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

  Bill Hader

  Insane Person, World, Favorites Things

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• In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

  James Ransone

  Risk, Twenties, Huge

  "Q&A - James Ransone (Damon Callis)". www.amc.com.

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• I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.

  Diana Ross

  Home, Successful, Traveled

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• ...I just want to be free of the fears and anxieties and the superstitions of religion. An 'avenging GOD'? One who created Hell for those who don't believe? I thought we were the perfect and holy children of GOD? How could any limits possibly be put upon us? Hell.. really? I'm sorry, but... no. Wrong. You're wrong. That's an insane GOD and therefore not mine. Because, see, GOD would be very sane, don't you get it?

  Bill Hicks

  Sorry, Children, Believe

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• Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

  Craig Ferguson

  Brave, Looks, Acid

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• My film isn't about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It's what it was really like. It was crazy. And the way we made it was very much like the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little we went insane.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Crazy, Vietnam, Littles

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• You don't have to be sincere yourself to recognize sincerity when you see it. Any more than you have to be insane to recognize insanity.

  Susan Moody

  Insanity, Perception, Sincerity

  Susan Moody (1992). “Mosaic”, Dell Publishing Company

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• You may wonder: how do I overcome the common 'Cute/Insane Conundrum,' as it occurs in men ... Yes, it's a fact - any man who seems cute, fabulous, and incredible to you will, of course, turn out to be insane.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Cute, Men, Dating

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• Well, Jen and Josh are the two funniest people on set. They're absolutely insane. If you put them together, it's just a disaster, But, I mean, it's so much fun! They're both probably the funniest people on set.

  Willow Shields

  Fun, Mean, Two

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