Insane Quotes - Page 27

• The amount of competition is just literally insane.

  John Landgraf

  Competition, Amount

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• I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.

  Dorothea Dix

  Strong, Real, Men

  "Memorial To The Legislature of Massachusetts". Book by Dorothea L. Dix, 1843.

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• It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up in the psychopathic ward. I had really learned about sex from him, making love, loving, giving. It just completely blew my mind it drove me insane. I was like a sex slave to this man. I could make love for forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, without getting tired. But the minute he left me alone, I felt so empty and lost that I would start popping pills.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Sex, Tired, Men

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• You get to shoot things, and things blow up, and you're jumping off of buildings. It's insane! And hot girls. And you get to dress cool. And you're in a movie with Tom Cruise, come on! So it's a dream come true. Truly.

  Josh Holloway

  Girl, Dream, Blow

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• Somehow weddings bring out the most insane moments in people's lives.

  Diane Keaton

  People, Moments

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• Acting is something that I couldn't recommend to anyone because the odds of it working out are so insane. I don't know how it worked out for me. I had no connections to this industry. I had no ins anywhere.

  Kat Dennings

  Odds, Work Out, Acting

  "Kat Dennings Talks 2 BROKE GIRLS, RENEE and the THOR Sequel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2011.

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• I love doing stunt stuff and action stuff. I'm not flipping off helicopters; that would be insane.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Would Be, Stuff, Action

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life.

  Karl Urban

  Jobs, Crazy, Real

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• Homosexuals love to look good. They're clean, neat. They're fastidious, well mannered and well educated. They like aesthetic things. They like good, firm, tight bodies. Health. They want to attract other guys. What's wrong with that? Why be slobs? You've got to be insane to suggest that because someone looks good, he must be gay. That's envy.

  Jack LaLanne

  Gay, Envy, Guy

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• Almost all politicians drive me insane. These people are supposed to be looking after us. What I hate is that we don't speak up enough as a nation and take on the government.

  Ray Winstone

  Hate, Government, People

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• New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

  Henry Miller

  New York, Vitality, Hammers

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi (Second Edition)”, p.159, New Directions Publishing

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• Whether your beliefs are true or totally insane, if you accept them, then that's what your life will be about.

  Robert Anthony

  Law Of Attraction, Belief, Accepting

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.3, Morgan James Publishing

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• Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

  Kate Atkinson

  Would Be, Looks, Look At Me

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• We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets

  Jim Morrison

  Lust, Theatre, Ancient

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• I got a dog and named him 'Stay'. Now, I go 'Come here, Stay!' After a while, the dog went insane and wouldn't move at all.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Dog, Moving

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• The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

  Stephen King

  Book, Years, Audio

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• You have to remember, that insane people can do some horrors themselves. I had committed no crime, though. I hadn't shot anybody. Yet.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  People, Remember, Horror

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!

  Alex Hirsch

  Children, Fall, People

  "Gravity Falls' Alex Hirsch on his show's big cliffhanger". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. March 11, 2015.

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• Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

  Juliette Lewis

  Art, People, Joy

  "New again: Juliette Lewis". Interview witр Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't possess that kind of mind. I have a researcher who compiles the fact sheets and chronologies that allow me to write these big books of mine.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Writing, Curiosity

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Interview with Markus Zusak, Author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger". Interview with Cindy Hudson, motherdaughterbookclub.com. February 24, 2010.

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• We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.

  Kesha Rogers

  Growth, Environmental, Needs

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• To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.

  Bernie Siegel

  Communication, Animal, Years

  Source: borderlessnewsandviews.com

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• Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

  Larry Ellison

  Would Be, Good Enough, Source

  Transcript: FT interview with Larry Ellison, www.ft.com. April 18, 2006.

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• Mania can be as terrifying as it gets. It is certainly as insane as one gets and so it's frightening when it gets out of control, but there are periods of mania when it can be extremely attractive.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Attractive, Periods, Mania

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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