Mad Quotes - Page 19

• Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dark, Safety, Age

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• 'Dammit I'm mad' is 'Dammit I'm mad' spelled backwards.

  Demetri Martin

  Backwards

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• 1,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into feed, making their fellows not only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after Mad Cows' Disease has banned this practice. The U.S has not yet.

  Howard Lyman

  Morning, Night, Europe

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• I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Trying, Genius

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• If someone wants to make a joke about me smoking too much pot, I'm not going to get mad at them, because I've put it out there that that's what I do.

  Doug Benson

  Smoking, Want, Too Much

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Political, Voting

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

  Woody Allen

  Basketball, Baseball, Sleep

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Player, Imagination, Insanity

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.

  Sam Houston

  War, People, Desire

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• I've been hooked on films ever since I can remember renting VHS tapes. But who got me hooked? I think life did. There wasn't a person or a mentor that got me hooked. I think it was the films themselves that influenced me. A specific memory that comes to mind is watching 'Goodfellas' when I was 12 and thought Robert De Niro looked so cool sitting at the bar smoking a cigarette and contemplating his next "move". I actually would copy his faces gestures and try and get into his mind frame. I would borrow mad dad's clothes and pretend I was a Mobster. So I guess I have to thank Robert DeNiro.

  Jaime Zevallos

  Memories, Dad, Moving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. Just to answer the question why does not say I'm validating behavior. I'm just saying, if we're going to be a student of human behavior, be a true student.

  Wendell Pierce

  Trying, Abhorrent, Doe

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn’t grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.

  Tom Tomorrow

  Growing Up, Names, Elephants

  "Dan Perkins". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. January 2001.

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• The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how a third could start. There are also people who think that the war has been going for a long time.

  Ronald Lauder

  War, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Mean, Delirium

  Jean Dubuffet, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1993). “Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.

  Charles Bukowski

  Stupid, Hard Work, Choices

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• We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Lying, Reality, Tunnels

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• If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must move on, move forward but never forget the past, but learn from it. If you ponder the 'if onlys' of life, they will drive you mad.

  Lorraine Heath

  Regret, Moving, Past

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• Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity

  Dwight Longenecker

  Dark, Insanity, Insane

  Dwight Longenecker (2014). “The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty”, p.5, Thomas Nelson

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• I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on Mad Max in Africa, so we became really fast friends.

  Josh Helman

  Max, Fortune, Mad Max

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• Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Creativity, Trying, Sides

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• A mad who knows that he is mad is not fully mad!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Knows

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• Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

  Joseph Heller

  Men, Medal

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• People are mad a Donald Trump for allegedly making a joke about Megyn Kelly having her period. Trump said, 'Trust me, I know what goes on down there, because I'm a huge douche.'

  Conan O'Brien

  People, Goes On, Trust Me

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• Ignore the people who advice you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Years, People, Advice

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