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  Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

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• I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

  Nick Rhodes

  Real, Differences, Problem

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

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• The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

  Jessica Savitch

  Real, Ideas, Television

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.

  Betty Friedan

  Brain, Full Potential, Needs

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• Western man is schizophrenic.

  J. B. Priestley

  Men, Western

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• I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

  Johnny Galecki

  Drinking, Shopping, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think our society is fragmented. Messages regarding human sexuality have always been mixed in America. We are a schizophrenic nation. We were founded initially by Puritans, who escaped repression only to establish their own. Then the founding fathers gave us the Constitution to separate church and state. But the one thing that got left out of all those laws was human sexuality.

  Hugh Hefner

  Father, Thinking, Church

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• For me, glamour was always an escape. When I was a kid, my mother was hospitalized, she was schizophrenic. When she was sick, she wouldn't do her hair or her makeup, and she just looked terrible. But when she got on medication and she was happy, she would go to the beauty parlor and wear makeup. So I really associate glamour with being happy. If you put on high heels and lipstick or get a new outfit, you feel great. It's a celebration of loving yourself, and the whole ritual of it is so great.

  Amanda Lepore

  Mother, Kids, Makeup

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Solitude, Impulse

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't really have a realistic life. Anyway, I am a schizophrenic so there two persons in me. Because I am the person I put on for the public and the person that I am really . . . deep inside me. So I have to cover it all up with . . . glamour and all that bullshit . . . make-up . . . glamour, dresses, color, etc., etc. . . . trying to hide a very . . . fragile person, really . . . very vulnerable to attack.

  Bianca Jagger

  Bullshit, Trying, Vulnerable

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not sure if it's because I'm older and I'm thinking about family more, but I'm trying to set up this thing where I can play in one city for a month, and then write music for a couple months, then play in another city for a month, write music for a month. Just so it's not these two schizophrenic, Jekyll and Hyde kind of things; you don't have to be this monster. You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could've done that in the 90s, I would have.

  Bjork

  Song, Couple, Writing

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• A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.

  Andrew Niccol

  War, Easy, Deals

  "Andrew Niccol on his new drone-warfare drama Good Kill". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. May 20, 2015.

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• I want to tell you about the God that actually showed up and healed my heart. Not the God I grew up, because the God I grew up was fundamentally, and I use the word advisedly, fundamentally untrustworthy -- schizophrenic, narcissistic, unreachable, unknowable, and my concept within which I grew up was that Jesus -- He likes me -- but He came to save me from God the Father -- who was the one who was angry and distant, and unreachable, unknowable. All of that had to come crashing down.

  William P. Young

  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• I feel like when you do Twitter, sometimes you just have an idea and you fire it off and don't really think too hard about the consequences of that. I think my reputation there is as a comedian and not someone to be taken seriously. But I like the idea of getting out false information and just muddying up the story and making it as confusing and, you know, schizophrenic as possible.

  Tim Heidecker

  Taken, Thinking, Fire

  "How Herman Cain Became a Tim and Eric Character". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. November 12, 2011.

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• When I speak of divisions greater than gender or race, I say that because it is so unimaginable. I can imagine what it would be like to be another race. Or to be a man - I could draw that up in my mind and experience it. Schizophrenia? We're all schizophrenic in our dreams. Depression? Most of us have been at least a little depressed and can imagine it. But not having a conscience? Conscience is so profound and so basic in most of us.

  Martha Stout

  Dream, Men, Profound

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We say that one gets cancer, or a cold, or kidney disease. One would
  never think to say that one is cancer. But we say that one is depressed,
  or bipolar, or schizophrenic. A disease of the body is a condition. But
  a disease of the mind, we think, is a state of being. We no longer
  believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals,
  but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.

  Paul Gruchow

  Cancer, Believe, Thinking

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• As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding cell phone networks, bonded labor and the digital revolution, female infanticide and the NASDAQ crash, husbands who continue to burn their wives for dowry and our delectable stockpile of Miss Worlds. What's hard to reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fashion, Husband, Cells

  Arundhati Roy (2001). “Power Politics”, South End Pr

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• I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality.

  Emma Watson

  Personality, Splits, Kind

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• The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.

  Bob Colacello

  Hate, Party, Writing

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• A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.

  Kurt Cobain

  Music, Complaining, Want

  "Kurt Cobain, The Rolling Stone Interview: Success Doesn't Suck". Interview with David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. January 27, 1994.

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• Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

  Gary Oldman

  Play, People, Actors

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• For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.

  Danielle Steel

  Littles, Life Is, Moments

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• The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings

  Joseph Campbell

  Reading, Water, Swim

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• Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Brother, Vision, Different

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