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Tag Name "Lunacy" (36)

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There was still an element in acting, certainly for my dad, of like, This is lunacy. But then once my parents could tell that I was serious, it was like, Okay then.
Henry Lloyd-Hughes
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Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.
Ilona Andrews
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In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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It is lunacy to be bringing refugees into this country who may be terrorists trying to murder Americans.
Lawrence O'Donnell
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The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.
Max Born
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As her skin sizzled under the delicious heat, she supposed she should’ve been giving serious thought to the lunacy of what she was doing playing with a vampire, who was, for all his charm, as lethal as a stiletto across the throat. But then again, most of her friends already thought she was half a nut short of a fruitcake. Why disappoint?
Nalini Singh
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I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living.
Nicole Krauss
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If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.
Noam Chomsky
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While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives.
Phillip Adams
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I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.
Stephen Dobyns
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Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.
Timothy Radcliffe
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They promised me that this would be my home. That girls like you would always be my sisters. But they weren't my sisters, were they? Catherine asked, but then the lunacy broke, a quick and fleeting crack, and through it I saw anger and bitterness and rage.
Ally Carter
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The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.
Walter E. Williams
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Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.
Anjelica Huston
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Love is merely a madness and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.
William Shakespeare
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Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.
Bethenny Frankel
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The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say.
Christian Boltanski
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What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
George Orwell
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I've never seen such a collection of idiots in my whole life.' Doolittle shook his head. 'If you participate in this lunacy, y'all will get yourselves killed. Then don't come crying to me.' Now that would be a neat trick.
Ilona Andrews
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with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.
John Kennedy Toole
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Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.
John Waters
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It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun.
Mark Helprin
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Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.
Megan Chance
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If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.
Nicholas Stern
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