Insanity Quotes
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Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us. That's what makes 'They Live' look so fresh - it's a document of greed and insanity. It's about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse.
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I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.
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If we get to the point where we damage the full faith and credit of the United States, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity.
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I'm pleased because as a comic I live on the fringes of an extreme society. What could be better than satirizing this insanity. People are on edge, desperate and afraid. Those who aren't are soulless or living in extreme denial, locked in a magic kingdom of their own making. As a comic I get to poke at people's bubbles! Of course I'm pleased. I get to be their mouthpiece for their rage and fear! Tremendous fun.
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In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.
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The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
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The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.
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Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is continuing to try the same approach to solve a problem but expecting different results.
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Poetry is the purest form of insanity.
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I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
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Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
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If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.
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Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
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Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
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Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it...
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Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
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I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.
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Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
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What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
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Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?
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When I look out into your faces, you know what I see? I see a little bit of Elvis in each and every one of you out there.
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It is insanity to run from God and search for love.
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There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
