Insane Quotes - Page 9

• Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

  Curt Schilling

  Baseball, Stupid, Years

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• I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.

  Curt Schilling

  Baseball, Passionate, Able

  "Curt Schilling Says He Lost $50 Million on Video Game Company" by Ben Forer, abcnews.go.com. June 22, 2012.

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• The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

  Daniel Craig

  Birthday, Regret, Ideas

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• There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take the burden of the insane and feeble-minded from your back. [Mandatory] sterilization for these is the answer.

  Margaret Sanger

  Intelligent, Government, Answers

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• I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Men, Community, Insanity

  "What's the Matter with Chicago?" by Eugene V. Debs in "Chicago Socialist", www.marxists.org. October 25, 1902.

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• No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sober

  "Pro Murena". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1st century BC.

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• It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Opposites, Civilization

  John F. Kennedy (2013). “The Letters of John F. Kennedy”, p.135, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

  Arthur Miller

  Country, People, Asylums

  "With respect for Her Agony - but with Love" in LIFE magazine, February 7, 1964.

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• I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying to capture. I'm quite sure of this. I think it's insane how many pictures have to be taken these days. We have to realize there's a level of documentation that's just chatter, it's noise, and beyond that, people who are truly documenting are going to have to find a way to puncture that.

  Ian MacKaye

  Taken, Thinking, People

  "Ian MacKaye, D.C. Rocker’s Library Of Congress Lecture: The Most Interesting Snippets" By Will Wrigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2013.

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• At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?

  Jess Walter

  Sweet, Regret, Thinking

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• I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Mean, Violence

  "The Ballot or The Bullet". Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, April 3, 1964.

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• I'm the crazy one? This country has gone insane. Read about it. FCC orders NBC newsrooms to partner with Soros funded non-profits. That's how the deal went through.

  Glenn Beck

  Country, Crazy, Nbc

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• The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Spiritual, Memories, Book

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• There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Dozen, Dull, May

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• I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Love, Business, Stupid

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• They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums. But I see a lot of people, a lot of my friends in the same predicament. Many times in my life, I was there myself.

  Ric Ocasek

  People, Insanity, Would Be

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• I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Humorous, People, Profound

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.85, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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• Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

  Steve Pavlina

  Sacrifice, Thought Provoking, Choices

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• John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off.

  Donald Pleasence

  Real, Halloween, Suggestions

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• What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?

  Steve Buscemi

  Retirement, Years, Office

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• The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

  Robert Thurman

  Spiritual, Views, Consciousness

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Aug 19, 2013

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• Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

  Anna Castillo

  Bipolar, Mental Health, Mental Illness

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• As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I
  have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like,
  'Oh my goodness gracious — that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing which
  is cool.

  Jordin Sparks

  Moving, Kids, People

  "Jordin Sparks Shares Her Secrets!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Love and hate, black and white,
  Right or wrong, who is right?
  Some smoke joints to anoint their brain
  To the vanishing point...so they won't go insane.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Hate, Rap, Black And White

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• I mean, I could go ahead and cut my head off in the guillotine, and it looks great, ... Well, now you turn on CNN and guys are really getting their heads cut off. ... As insane as our fantasy world gets, it's nowhere near as scary as reality.

  Alice Cooper

  Mean, Cutting, Reality

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