Mad Quotes - Page 36

• In June 1968, five days before my mother's forty -sixth birthday, the world fell apart again. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy, who died the next day. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

  Lorna Luft

  Country, People, Gone

  "Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir".

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• I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

  Lydia Lunch

  Lunch, Busy, Sympathetic

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• I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.

  John Lydon

  Bullying, Believe, Inspiration

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Crazy, Military, War

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• The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.

  Bill Maher

  Games, Religion, Looks

  "Bill Maher: Be More Cynical". Comedy, 2000.

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• I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

  Hilary Mantel

  Thinking, Talking, My Time

  "Other voices". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2005.

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• Humor is reason gone mad.

  Groucho Marx

  Laughter, Inspiration, Humor

  "Rob Zombie Directing Oren Moverman-Scripted Groucho Marx Biopic" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. June 18, 2015.

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• It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now.

  Dylan McDermott

  Men, Interesting, Television

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• Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.

  Reba McEntire

  Reason, Crash, Planes

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, 'God is not mad at you.' Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, 'That is exactly what I needed to hear today.' Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, People, One Day

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• I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Heartbroken, Mad Cow Disease, Meat

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

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• I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Writing, Never Quit, Contradiction

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• If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

  Alan Moore

  Matter, Ifs

  "Moore's murderer" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 01, 2002.

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• As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

  Alan Moore

  Long, Important, Free Will

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• I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.

  Michael Moore

  Eagles, Towns, Pollution

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• A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.

  Dylan Moran

  Growing Up, War, Men

  "Dylan Moran Makes Sentences of Things". Interview With J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 13, 2013.

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• I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

  Dylan Moran

  Careers, Phones, Giving

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• Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

  Steven Morrissey

  Thinking, Giving, Age

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

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• When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

  Aimee Mullins

  Attitude, Men, Watches

  "US Paralympics TV coverage disappointing, says chef de mission" by Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

  John Forbes Nash

  Would Be, Research, Normal

  "Quantum Phaith" by Jeffrey Strickland, (p. 197), 2011.

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• I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.

  Jo Nesbo

  Optimistic, Men, Years

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• The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.

  Phil Ochs

  Responsibility, America, Gone

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

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• You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, Mistake, Live Your Life

  "Joel Osteen: The Power of Positivity". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

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• To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, Differences, Passionate

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• When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, Enemy, Devil

  "Joel Osteen: The Man Behind America's Largest Church". Interview with Kristi Watts, www.cbn.com.

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