Madness Quotes - Page 40

• Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

  Alcuin

  Voice, People, Vox Populi

  Letter 164 in 'Works' (1863) vol. 1, p. 438

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• Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

  Federica Montseny

  Years, Democracy, Spain

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• I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Curiosity, Shops

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• It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Mad, Hatred

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• He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

  Linda McCartney

  Writing, Mad, Tunes

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• Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Thinking, Mad

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• Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Golf, Games, Mad

  "Dick Van Dyke Discusses His Career in Entertainment". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. September 22, 2000.

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• Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

  Graham Swift

  Men, Mad, Littles

  Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

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• I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.

  Maxine Waters

  Thinking, Doors, Kicking It

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• The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

  Alison Bechdel

  Ethos, Mad, Childhood

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• I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

  Judy Collins

  Years, Mad, Together

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• And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

  Aaron McGruder

  People, Mad, Want

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• Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

  David Wain

  Tv Shows, Mad, Groups

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• When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

  Jim Cramer

  People, Mad, Mind

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• Look, any amount I make, somebody's going to be mad.

  Benny Hinn

  Mad, Looks, Amount

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• You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.

  Jonathan Coe

  Writing, Impact, Mad

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• I don't get mad too much.

  Tom Cochrane

  Mad, Too Much

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• And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

  Kitty Carlisle

  Crazy, Hollywood

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• You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

  Eddie Campbell

  Crazy, Past, People

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• I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

  Jackie Cooper

  Crazy, Too Much, Interviews

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• World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

  Ken Livingstone

  Crazy, People, Everyday

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• I don't bat an eye at stuff like that. I've had my share of wins. If I worried about the games I should have won, it would probably drive me crazy. It was a fun game to pitch in.

  Roger Clemens

  Fun, Crazy, Eye

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• To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.

  George Eads

  Crazy, Interesting, Actors

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• Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

  Tom Metzger

  Crazy, White, Jew

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• I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

  Sarah Vowell

  Crazy, Nuts, American History

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