Sane Quotes - Page 22

• Music keeps people sane.

  Zoot Sims

  People

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• Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.

  Doug Benson

  Reading, Want, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Men, Construction

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• To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

  Ian Bogost

  Able, Way, Venues

  Source: app.longform.org

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• When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn't care less.

  Mark Steyn

  Winter, Numbers, Wonderland

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• Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent all my hours writing things like "Fatal Distraction," I'd become a brooding, erratic melancholic. I'd be Raskolnikov.

  Dave Barry

  Pain, Writing, Erratic

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• I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Art, School, Performing

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• Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Drinking, Food

  Major Barbara (1907) act 2

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• When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

  Vikram Chandra

  People, Normal, Sometimes

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• People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Indulge In, People

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• The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Country, Men

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• My friends are the friends I've had forever, that's kept me very sane.

  Dakota Fanning

  Forever, My Friends

  "Dakota Fanning on Why It's Good to Be a "Weird Person"". Interview by Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. August 9, 2016.

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• If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.

  Zoot Sims

  Music, Play, People

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• The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

  Emma Goldman

  Peace, Expression, People

  Emma Goldman (2013). “Living My Life”, p.210, Courier Corporation

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• It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set up a room in the house to be like a hospital room. Eugene died, and then I had bypass surgery. I was doing the book to stay sane while all this was going on.

  Maurice Sendak

  Cancer, Book, House

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Working with my hands keeps me sane.

  Seamus Dever

  Hands

  "Seamus Dever: On being Vegetarian, Remembering the Wins and balancing Patience with Ambition". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I try to stay sane and grounded by hunkering down, eating right, and exercising. I make a routine of spin class, yoga, and Pilates, places I push my body so hard I can lose my mind. Cutting out caffeine and sugar, being mindful, and getting enough rest are important.

  Jaime Murray

  Yoga, Cutting, Exercise

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight - that God is, like Santa Claus, a myth of childhood, not anything [that] a sane, undeluded adult could literally believe in. That God must either be turned into a symbol for something less concrete or abandoned altogether.

  Daniel Dennett

  Stars, Believe, Sky

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly, without question, even when everyone else is questioning how good (or sane) they are.

  John Eliot

  Faith, Believe, Achievement

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• The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.

  Philippa Perry

  Creativity, Chaos, Steering

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's something bigger than improvised music versus pop music versus something else. What actually succeeds in being communicated are human feelings, things that people can latch onto and say, "Yeah, I feel like that sometimes." It can be inspiring or it can be something that keeps you sane when you're not feeling well.

  John Dieterich

  People, Feelings, Succeed

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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• When you are starting a business or going down any challenging endeavor, you are bound to encounter challenges. You are going to hit many roadblocks and obstacles. These are obstacles that would make any sane person want to throw in the towel and quit. If you want your business to succeed, you can’t do that (duh).

  Richard Branson

  Challenges, Encounters, Duh

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• The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Army, Men, Sailing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.172

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• I can't believe that Hillary Clinton wants the world to think that whenever she gets into political trouble, she's going to have her husband come roaring about, breaking furniture, sucking up oxygen, spewing carbon dioxide. My impression is that she's strong enough to defend herself - she certainly showed that in the recent Democratic debate. But apparently she's not strong enough to control Mr. Bill. And if that's the case, any sane voter would have to think twice before enabling this sort of circus act in the White House.

  Joe Klein

  Strong, Husband, Believe

  "Klein: A 'circus act in the White House'?" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. January 24, 2008.

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• You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.

  Richard Dawkins

  Strong, Believe, Religion

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