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• To become successful you will have to get mad about your current situation. After you get mad, get motivated to do something about it.

  Jon Jones

  Motivational, Successful, Motivated

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• People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, People, Magnitude

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• In a mad world, it is the mad who are sane.

  Craig Nicholls

  World, Mad World, Sane

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

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• I think that nobody gets mad at me anymore, no matter what I say, because I don't think I'm mean. I am interested in what's next.

  John Waters

  Mean, Thinking, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Morning, Night, Laughing

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Wicked, Degrees

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.259

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• Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he have in his tavern, oh so enchanted and sing like a mad man. Mad with the love of a wife for her husband, child or mother, sister or brother... sing for the Most High, sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song, God plays his flute and we all dance along.

  Trevor Hall

  Mother, Song, Brother

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• The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Inspiration, Way, Gorgeous

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.

  Chaka Khan

  Song, Gun, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're a pitcher, and you're pitching and you strike me out and you start celebrating on the mound and showing me off, whenever I get a hit off you, I'm going to go and celebrate, and you shouldn't get mad. If you're a pitcher and strike me out and show me respect and you don't show me up, when I get a homer or a hit, I'm not going to show you up. That's what I believe.

  Bengie Molina

  Believe, Pitching, Celebrate

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are major perks of being an actor. But you need to be cautious and respectful.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Girl, Fun, Dancing

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• The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Night, Men, Race

  "Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.

  Margaret Atwood

  Song, Book, Play

  "Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For". Speech at the Stratford Festival, September 1997.

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• But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

  Aeschylus

  Soulmate, Passion, Heart

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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• Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle , on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair holding his wrists like Lifar and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.

  Randall Jarrell

  Art, Thinking, Hair

  "The Lost World". Book by Randall Jarrell, p. 159, 1965.

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• The first case of mad cow disease since 2006 was discovered right here in the United States. The good news, since the cow is in California, instead of putting the cow down, they are going to enroll him in anger management classes.

  Jay Leno

  Class, California, Mad Cow Disease

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• The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

  Jean Genet

  Fighting, Past, Reasoning

  Jean Genet (1960). “The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes”

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• It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Alternatives, Offers

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Brain, Sane

  Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My wife gets so jealous. She came home from work and was mad at me because there was a pretty girl on the bus she thought I would have liked.

  Ray Romano

  Girl, Home, Jealous

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• I think you can't write with anger. I think it always has to be with a wink. There always has to be an element of hope in what you write. Otherwise you're just getting mad and it's not going to be fun for anybody.

  Mark Russell

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man.

  David Nasaw

  Men, Idiot, Rich

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• Money is like a canvas or a shape shifter. It's like whatever you project on that canvas, that's what money is for you. Really, in its essence it's power. Most people relate to money the way they relate to power. They either think other people have it, and they don't and they're mad about it, or they feel fearful of it like having it would be a burden or a responsibility.

  Tony Robbins

  Responsibility, Thinking, Essence

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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• The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins.

  Cyprian

  Numbers, World, Assassins

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• Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

  George Eliot

  Men, Monsters, Philosopher

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.135

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