Crackpots Quotes - Page 2

• Rapture cults had packed their suitcases and were massing together in great vigils, waiting for the end. "All bogus," she'd told Zuzana. "Just a bunch of crackpots waiting for the Apocalypse." "Because, fun, right?" Zuzana rubbed her hands together in mock glee. "Oh, boy. The Apocalypse!" "Right? I know. How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse?

  Laini Taylor

  Fun, Boys, Hands

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• Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

  Warren Beatty

  Mistake, Call Me, Beatty

  "Senator Bulworth vs. the Terminator" by Bill Schneider, www.cnn.com. September 23, 2005.

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• A lot of professionals are crackpots.

  Jenny Holzer

  Jenny Holzer, Söke Dinkla (2006). “Die Macht des Wortes”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spiritual, Character, Order

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.201, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Jesus was a crackpot.

  Rajneesh

  Jesus, Religion

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• Nutrition . . . has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly . . .

  Adelle Davis

  Care, Nutrition, Puppy

  Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

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• Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture.

  Ann Coulter

  Ideas, Feelings, Listening

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.172, Crown Forum

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• The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. And that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. Our minds are not yet captive.

  C. Wright Mills

  Running, Acceptance, Mind

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings”, p.185, Univ of California Press

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• For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.

  C. Wright Mills

  Reality, Men, Talking

  "The Power Elite". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1956.

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• I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Police, Way, Married

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• People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.

  Ed Zern

  Sports, Lakes, Sea

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• One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.

  James Purefoy

  Drama, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood on its head.

  Milton Friedman

  Politics, Economy, Theory

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• The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the US vaccine schedule.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Years, Ideas, Vaccines

  "Who’s Afraid Of The Truth About Autism?" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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• When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot. The doctors used to say, "Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound -- this is what I had to go through.

  Jack LaLanne

  Athlete, Men, Doctors

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