Insane Quotes - Page 29

• I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.

  Charles Payne

  Soccer, Jobs, Children

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making a living, but as a belief, an almost maniacal, sometimes insane devotion and commitment to communication.

  David Finckel

  Art, Communication, Commitment

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• If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money - money is all they think about - they're all nuts.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Nuts, Guy

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, 1997.

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• Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

  Henry Adams

  President, Firsts, Poison

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• What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain fact is that, if it be suitably selective, it is extremely salubrious. Suppose it could be so arranged that it ran to 100% a year among politicians, executive secretaries, drive chairmen, and the homicidally insane? What rational man would object?

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Years

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.344, Vintage

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• Insane for your sweet, sweet love!

  Tahereh Mafi

  Sweet, Sweet Love

  Tahereh Mafi (2013). “Unravel Me”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt.

  Tom Verlaine

  Suicide, Cutting, Boards

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• "Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Arrogant, Esoteric, Pedantic

  Herbert M. Shelton (2015). “The Science and Fine Art of Fasting”, p.76, Ravenio Books

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• Hollywood industry people are very spoiled. I don't think they can adjust to the insane, no-money, super-hard working tradition of Japanese filmmaking. I don't think any American can go through that. They don't want to work more than twelve hours and they want Saturday and Sunday off.

  Ryuhei Kitamura

  Hard Work, Sunday, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a café and I did bike delivery and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.

  Kevin Morby

  Jobs, New York, Really Cool

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love crazy names. It comes right from Monty Python and Woody Allen - nothing in the world makes me giggle more than a funny name. It became a thing I started doing when I wrote. If a person came into a store and said, "How much is this apple?" that person would have an insane name.

  Michael Schur

  Crazy, Python, Names

  "An Interview with Michael Schur". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Thirteen, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.

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• Ahhh... It's good to be young and insane.

  Michael Keaton

  Young, Be Young

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• Children are all criminally insane, and must be destroyed!

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Children, Destroyed

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• You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!

  Penn Jillette

  Law, People

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• If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

  Dave Mustaine

  Crazy, Knows, Ifs

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• If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.

  Josh Marshall

  Team, People, Looks

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• Given that most movies are bad, and that there are whole categories and sub-categories of badness - the sequel, the Madonna Movie, the Friday 13th Series, or Movies Starring John Travolta Before Pulp Fiction - it is almost impossible to choose a single film for worst movie of all time. But strangely, I do have a nomination and I believe it is actually the worst movie ever made. It is Boxing Helena. The director is David Lynch's daughter, and the film comes with the almost insane-making faults that the family connection might imply.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Friday, Daughter, Believe

  "If I'd made that, I'd change my name". www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2004.

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• Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow.

  Norman Geisler

  Christian, Suicide, Atheist

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• Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.

  Richard J. Foster

  Attachment, Needs, Divine

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• The oboe's a horn made of wood.
  I'd play you a tune if I could,
  But the reeds are a pain,
  And the fingering's insane.
  It's the ill wind that no one blows good.

  Ogden Nash

  Pain, Blow, Wind

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• If you're raised in a household where questions are encouraged, you're the minority. It's sad. One of the things that has resonated the most for me is that, in the '50s, if your sex life was unfulfilling, it was your fault, as a woman. It was never the man's fault. Millions of women thought they were working with faulty equipment. If they couldn't have orgasms from having sex with their husbands, then they were broken. That's insane, and everybody believed it.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Sex, Husband, Men

  "Lizzy Caplan Talks MASTERS OF SEX, Her Real-Life Counterpart, Going to Work and Watching People Pretend to Have Sex, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. October 5, 2013.

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• A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I swear!" I'm not buying it. I don't believe them.

  Nate Lowman

  Believe, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Internet has a lot of solutions. I found an insane way to trap chipmunks - it was too crazy not to try.

  Wade Guyton

  Crazy, Trying, Way

  Interview with David Armstrong, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• The late 90s almost forced me to identify myself as a value investor, because I thought what everybody else was doing was insane.

  Michael Burry

  Late, Investors, Values

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• Black-Scholes is a know-nothing system. If you know nothing about value - only price - then Black-Scholes is a pretty good guess at what a 90-day option might be worth. But the minute you get into longer periods of time, it's crazy to get into Black-Scholes. For example, at Costco we issued stock options with strike prices of $30 and $60, and Black-Scholes valued the $60 ones higher. This is insane.

  Charlie Munger

  Crazy, Black, Example

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