Wesley Willis Quotes

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

Wesley Willis

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• There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • May
  • Genes
  • Schizophrenia

• The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Want
  • Success
  • Me

• Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Challenges
  • Everyone
  • Demons

• I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

  

  J. Cole
  • Music
  • God
  • Religious

• There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Political
  • Schizophrenia

• Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Careful
  • Demons
  • Throw Away

• It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Family
  • Chickens
  • Unborn

• Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Demons
  • Multitude

• You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.

  

  Kinky Friedman
  • Struggle
  • Conquer
  • Demons

• But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.

  

  Adeline Yen Mah
  • Worth
  • Convinced
  • Demons

• I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Worry
  • Teenager
  • Insane

• I have my own demons, my own pain and darkness, but I choose to embrace them and look at them head-on and deal with them. Then it doesn't hurt, and you learn from it.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Pain
  • Hurt
  • Learn

• Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.

  

  Remy de Gourmont
  • Demons
  • Called
  • They

• I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • History
  • Tradition

• I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Believe
  • Country

• Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Live
  • You
  • Big

• I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Know

• It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Technology
  • Judgment
  • Myth

• A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Carries

• Why, then, even when I advanced, was I so quick to retreat? Why did I always have ready a gracious smile, a happy laugh, when things went badly? Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Smile
  • Excuses
  • Retreat

• I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • World
  • Rest

• For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Me
  • Universe
  • Better

• People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.

  

  Bo Belinsky
  • People
  • Talent
  • Pitcher

• Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

  

  Wesley Willis
  • Demons
  • Schizophrenia