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• Black-Scholes works for short-term options, but if it's a long-term option and you think you know something [about the underlying asset], it's insane to use Black-Scholes.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Long, Black

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• The Berkshire-style investors tend to be less diversified than other people. The academics have done a terrible disservice to intelligent investors by glorifying the idea of diversification. Because I just think the whole concept is literally almost insane. It emphasizes feeling good about not having your investment results depart very much from average investment results. But why would you get on the bandwagon like that if somebody didn't make you with a whip and a gun?

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Gun, Intelligent

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• When I'm lying in bed I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes.

  Victoria Beckham

  Lying, Thinking, Clothes

  "Victoria Beckham: I used to feel famous, but now I feel successful". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2014.

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• Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there" or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everybody else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stress, Mean, Tears

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.84, New World Library

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• I have no clue [why people say I'm insane]. Every time I've heard it, it came from an ugly person's mouth, so I don't care.

  Amanda Bynes

  People, Mouths, Care

  "Amanda Bynes and the crass media treatment of 'troubled starlets" by Hannah Jane Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2013.

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• If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

  Colm Toibin

  Cheer, Biographies, Ifs

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

  Alan Arkin

  Believe, Artist, Competition

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

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• To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession. Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything. I respect all forms of movement and lifestyles, but I am in a bubble. I wake up, it is in my head; I go to sleep, it's in my head, 24/7.

  Conor McGregor

  Sports, Football, Mean

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.

  Frances Farmer

  Being Alone, Cells, Years

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• Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.

  Sean Lennon

  Father, Thinking, Government

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• How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.

  Ted Nugent

  Law, People, Abiding

  Ted Nugent (2001). “God, Guns & Rock'N'Roll”, p.30, Regnery Publishing

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• It's not better to give than to receive. It's insane to try to give and not receive.

  Bob Burg

  Giving, Trying

  Bob Burg, John David Mann (2015). “The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea”, p.62, Penguin

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• I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

  Michael Caine

  Worry, Lasts, Next

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• One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.

  Henry Rollins

  Gun, Lines, Teeth

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• The heroes and discoverers have found true more than was previously believed, only when they were expecting and dreaming of something more than their contemporaries dreamed of, or even themselves discovered, that is, when they were in a frame of mind fitted to behold the truth. Referred to the world's standard, they are always insane. Even savages have indirectly surmised as much.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Hero, Discovery

  Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.110

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• Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Lessons, Merit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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• No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  "Fictional character: Harry Block". "Deconstructing Harry", 1997.

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• Funniest thing happened though, you wouldn't believe it, ha, the mannequins came to life. I went insane.

  Drew Carey

  Believe, Happened, Things Happen

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• Look at the insane things the Jews believe. The Jews believe that Barbra Streisand is worth $1,000 bucks a ticket.

  Greg Giraldo

  Believe, Looks, Bucks

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• [Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second.

  Julie Bowen

  Makeup, Awards, Hair

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• If a handful of people look at the making of the film and realize, "Oh, my god!" It was so complicated. It was like doing quantum physics calculations every day while you're telling a joke. It was so insane! So, they can feel my pain.

  Rob Letterman

  Pain, People, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that was in the discussions when NBC finally bought it and was trying to figure out how to distinguish it as an event. I'll be honest, we did shoot it with the idea of it being an on-going series, but because I am insane when I get to the end of a season and they give you a big, giant cliff-hanger with no answers, I insisted that we provide all the answers to the questions that we set up, at the beginning.

  Remi Aubuchon

  Thinking, Nbc, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Liars, America, Leader

  "ORIGIN Interview: Mark Ruffalo on Climate Change, the Monopoly on Our Energy Systems, Fighting Fracking, the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Pollution, Showing Compassion, and Being Who You Say You Are". Interview with Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

  Graham Nash

  Kind, Moments, Take A Deep Breath

  Graham Nash (2004). “Eye to Eye: Photographs”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• Me and my cheeseburgers are insane.

  Naya Rivera

  Cheeseburger

  Interview with J. Halterman, www.afterellen.com. May 16, 2011.

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