Insane Quotes - Page 39

• I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

  Harry Browne

  War, Gun, Rights

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• Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

  Bill Bryson

  Boston, Childhood, Toys

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.154, VNR AG

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• My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

  Steve Buscemi

  Humorous, Mean, Profound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

  Michael Caine

  Hollywood, Lunatic Asylums, Towns

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  Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

  Truman Capote

  Life, Birthday, Humorous

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• If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Girl, Sarcastic, Humorous

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• When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.

  Adam Carolla

  Mean, Should Have, People

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

  Nick Cave

  Reading, Stories, Language

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. November 24, 2004.

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• For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Hands, Awkward, Outcomes

  "Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.

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• Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Moving, Opposites, Heaven

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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• We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Littles, Too Much, Equipment

  "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse". Documentary, www.imdb.com. November 27, 1991.

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• For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thinking, Publishing House, Two

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• I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thinking, Sound, Memoir

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• Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

  John Cusack

  Gun, Law, Dollars

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• I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

  Richard Dawkins

  Stupid, Believe, Years

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• Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

  Alan Dershowitz

  People, Ill, Wells

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• Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Lying, Passion

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.527, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Differences, People

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• When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Thinking, Two, Battle

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• It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

  Errol Flynn

  Funny, Leadership, Wisdom

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

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• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Education, Running

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

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• I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.

  Megan Fox

  Gone, Might, Happens

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

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• People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.

  Megan Fox

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Art

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• I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

  Stephen Fry

  Children, Would Be, Literature

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• Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

  Noel Gallagher

  Artist, Mad, Eccentric

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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