Lunatic Quotes - Page 8

• I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Boys, Years, Play

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• Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.

  Emily Gould

  Self, Fearless, Genius

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• For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.

  Gail Collins

  Texas, Issues, Long

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• To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

  Louise Wilder

  Garden, Rocks, Landscape

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• Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

  Annie Dillard

  Mother, Father, Crowds

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• If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga of a girl growing up in a trailer park in Kingman, Arizona, with an alcoholic mother who makes her straighten her naturally curly hair and won't let her date a Navajo boy or pursue her goal of becoming (naturally) a writer, I will. And I will laugh like a lunatic while doing it.

  Mel White

  Girl, Mother, Growing Up

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• Concision is a technique of propaganda. It ensures you cannot do anything except repeat clichés, the standard doctrine, or sound like a lunatic.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technique, Sound, Doctrine

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• I'm gonna be a respectable dude. When people talking to me, I'm gonna show everybody respect. I just wanted to do that, I needed some kind of balance and I think that Islam was perfect for me. It ain't nothing different than Christianity, we all believe in Jesus, we all believe in God, it's just that Islam really helped me balance out who I am. Cuz if I can go all day without making Salaat or asking for forgiveness or giving thanks, you know, I would probably be a lunatic. So that's what gave me balance.

  The Jacka

  Thank You, Jesus, Believe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.

  Barack Obama

  Crazy, Heart, Fate

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.311, Broadway Books

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• Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!

  Thomas Aquinas

  Liars, Christ, Lord

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• If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu (and all songs say it). If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but mine, mine. What will I care for gods or devils or for Fate itself. If she smiles or weeps or both. For me.

  Jean Rhys

  Goodbye, Song, Fate

  Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”

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• The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Doubt, Chickens, Chains

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• So, thanks,” Vivian said. “For what?” I looked up at her, confused. “For being stupid enough to love your crazy, murdering lunatic of a sister and being such a pathetic dork that I couldn’t help but love you, too

  Kiersten White

  Confused, Crazy, Stupid

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• "Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Kings, Order, India

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.152, Advaita Ashrama

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• Whatever may be guru - he may be a lunatic or a common person. Once you have accepted him, he is the lord of lords.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  May, Common, Lord

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• If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Fashion, Way, Rational

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• Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is not only that you will have a different body; it is that in having a different body, you will have a different life. If you hate yourself enough, you will love yourself. If you torture yourself enough, you will become a peaceful, relaxed human being.

  Geneen Roth

  Hate, Love You, Peaceful

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.

  Paddy Considine

  Blow, Thinking, People

  "Dark star". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2009.

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• God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

  Garrett Fort

  Evil, Soul, Mind

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• He groaned and I saw his face. "Curran!" I would've preferred a homicidal lunatic. Oh, wait...

  Ilona Andrews

  Waiting, Faces, Saws

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.104, Penguin

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• Whatever you do," Seth said around a chewy mouthful, "try not to leave me down here too long. You can only play a certain amount of Yahtzee games in a row before you become a lunatic." "I'll keep that in mind.

  Brandon Mull

  Games, Play, Long

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• I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful," said Linette Owens, "but are you a dangerous lunatic?

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Ungrateful, Said

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth.
  A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religion, Doe, Lunatic Asylums

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• Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons. Cherish and burnish this faculty of seeing crudely, simply, artlessly, ignorantly; of seeing like a baby or a lunatic, who lives each moment by itself and tarnishes by the present no remembrance of the past.

  Arnold Bennett

  Baby, Memories, Past

  Arnold Bennett, Sir Newman Flower (1932). “Delenda est * BOD : staff use only”

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• The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

  Umberto Eco

  Inspiration, Common Sense, Liberty

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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