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The explosion of jihad and its desire to export its contagious madness to all areas of the world have changed the way we view immigration.
- Greg Gutfeld
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In Mumbai and Chennai there is method in the madness. Despite its large crowds there is a 'live and let live' spirit and a connection with good.
- Amala Akkineni
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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
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Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
- Sextus Propertius
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I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!
- Peter Capaldi
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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
- Anacharsis
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There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.
- Creed Bratton
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
- Bono
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Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
- Mike Wilson
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
- Geraldine Brooks
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
- Ioan Gruffudd
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Nothing like stopping at Balthazar in between NYFW madness. Their shrimp cocktail is delicious and healthy.
- Denise Bidot
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I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.
- John Glover
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Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.
- Debi Gliori
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
- Camille Paglia
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But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
- Georg Brandes
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Internationally, I propose the radical step of not trying to solve complex political problems with 1,000lb bombs; domestically, I propose they start addressing inequality by paying reparations for slavery. I'm well aware that in a society where war and discrimination are now almost entirely normalised, both options sound like madness.
- Frankie Boyle
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Everywhere you turn in New Zealand, there's something exciting to do. It's the gem of the world. It's so far away from the madness, and so you get that element. It was just stunning.
- Wes Bentley
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Success can create more madness than happiness.
- Billy Ocean
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A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
- Kay Redfield Jamison
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then I'm also able to make these very strong statements. I don't know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there's sort of a power.
- Wangechi Mutu
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I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.
- James Frain
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America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.
- John le Carre
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Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.
- Max von Sydow
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People are prospering from being unapologetically offensive, trite, and stupid. And we are tweeting ourselves into high blood pressure and ulcers trying to tell them to do better... Being a pompous nut biscuit is now a publicity strategy, and I don't know what we can do to end the madness.
- Luvvie Ajayi
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When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
- Ted Cruz
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When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.
- Rick Wilson
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Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.
- Jaggi Vasudev
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It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
- Frank Auerbach
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Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.
- Josh Tillman
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
- Kaskade
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I struggled with kind of fighting with the inner illnesses within myself where my psychological madness and I have always kind of struggled with different disorders and mental things and so the biggest thing that I was kind of always ashamed of or being embarrassed of was kind of that.
- Maria Brink
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My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.
- Ronnie O'Sullivan
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
- Christopher Morley
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The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.
- Taiye Selasi
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When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in.
- Sia
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We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.
- Ishmael Beah
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When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.
- Mario Van Peebles
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The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
- Hermann Broch
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
- Basil Bunting
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The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.
- Rick Bass
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
- Otto Weininger
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We love live because of the roughness round the edges, the excitement, the madness, and stuff going off on all sorts of weird tangents. It's like hosting a jolly in your house. We're welcoming people in and giving them snacks.
- Mel Giedroyc
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
- Mal Peet
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What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
- Nellie Bly
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March Madness is an incredible three weeks. I firmly believe it's the greatest three weeks in sports. You have the Super Bowl; you have the World Series.
- Dick Vitale
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Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.
- Ken Marino
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I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.
- Chris Lowe
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In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly, bled them on the corridors of hospitals, laid our corpses on the beds of neighbors, held our sorrows up in full light. We were volume ten about our madness and disorder, even if we were also resilient and enduring and tough.
- Alexandra Fuller
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I'm interested in characters that have just a touch of madness.
- Greta Gerwig
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'Moonlight' undoes our expectations as viewers, and as human beings, too. As we watch, another movie plays in our minds: real-life footage of the many forms of damage done to black men, which can sometimes lead them to turn that hateful madness on their own kind, passing on the poison that was their inheritance.
- Hilton Als
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It's just madness. First email. Then instant message. Then MySpace. Then Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Then Twitter. It's not enough anymore to 'Just do it.' Now we have to tell everyone we are doing it, when we are doing it, where we are doing it and why we are doing it.
- Mark McKinnon
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Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious and caste reasons - something I was familiar with because of my Indian upbringing - but to choose to be a vegetarian when you could eat meat for every meal every day? That seemed madness to me.
- Neel Mukherjee
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The madness of spring is so enticing. I love it when things are opening up and emerging from the ground. I also love the middle of summer when fruit is bursting forth, but I even love the garden in the winter when everything is resting.
- Ross Gay
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
- Seneca
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You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.
- Thomas Sankara
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Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
- Tom Baker
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In the madness, you have to find calm.
- Lupita Nyong'o
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Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
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It's like Richard Petty always said, 'Racing isn't the job. That's where we get away from our job.' That's where we go out and have fun and get away from the madness. No one can bother you in there. There's no phones, no interviews - it's just you, driving.
- Bubba Wallace
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
- Narendra Modi
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Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.
- Anne Sexton
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The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.
- Spalding Gray
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To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.
- Alija Izetbegovic
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
- R. D. Laing
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
- Naomi Wolf
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Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.
- The Weeknd
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True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
- Petrarch
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
- Petrarch
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On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.
- Erich Maria Remarque
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To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
- Edgar Lee Masters
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.
- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
- Marston Morse
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
- Ambrose Bierce
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
- Alexander Pope
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
- Bertrand Russell
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
- Aristotle
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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
- Aristotle
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There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman.
- Tom Felton
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There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.
- Nigella Lawson
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The romantic idea of the penniless writer is false. It's terrible. I hated being in debt. I hated the anxiety of not knowing whether we could pay our rent that month. Thankfully, I had a wife who was very supportive and had faith and shared my madness.
- Hisham Matar
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Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.
- Milan Kundera
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
- Theodore Roethke
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
- Allen Ginsberg
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When love is not madness, it is not love.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.
- Gloria Trevi
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
- Graham Greene
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In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
- J. G. Ballard
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The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
- Anne Lamott
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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
- Rosa Parks
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
- Manolo Blahnik
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
- John Dryden
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Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.
- Italo Calvino
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A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
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