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“People associate clothes with actual behavior, and it's kind of crazy. If you get shot in some Levi's you don't go after Levi's. It's not the clothes. It's always the people.”

People Ifs Kind Crazy Behavior Clothes Shots Associates Levi's

Author:Ice Cube

“The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained.”

People Thinking Mean Children Dream Share Crazy Mines Husband Behavior Logic Madness Patient Edges Insane I've Learned Professors Be Patient Tease Crazy People Unmotivated

Book:The Woman Upstairs

Source: The Woman Upstairs

“Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.”

Ifs Thinking Children Age Realizing Crazy Behavior Constant Addiction Dependent Privacy Bells Segregation Sequence Surveillance Schooling Curriculum Confinement

Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“There's no woman that's crazy for no reason. That behavior is a reaction. Believe that.”

Believe Reason Crazy Behavior Reactions No Reason

Author:Mirjana Puhar

“When you're really crazy you don't question it. Being aware of my behaviors stops them. Sure, a lot of people pick their cuticles, but how many people cut big parts of their skin off? It's unfair because I have been judged.”

People Has Beens Bigs Cutting Crazy Behavior Picks Skins Judged Unfair

Author:Jenny Lawson

“It's interesting that people who can perpetrate cons have talked themselves into believing that they're not doing anything bad. That they tell themselves that there is nothing wrong with what they're doing is the crazy thing about human behavior.”

People Believe Humans Interesting Crazy Behavior Human Behavior Crazy Things

Author:Craig Zobel

“You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of the time you'll get stereotyped as crazy, even if you're totally boring thirty percent of the time and just studious the other thirty percent of the time.”

People Ifs Knows Crazy Behavior Percent Boring Thirty Forty Studious

Author:Irvine Welsh

“It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.”

Giving Feels Self Hard Growing Up Growing Crazy Self Esteem Like You Giving Up Behavior Survival Connected Disappear Esteem Appearing Codependent

Author:Melody Beattie

“Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.”

Way Humanity Accepting Steps Crazy Behavior Faults Who We Are Contradiction Meant To Be Primitive Steps Forward

Author:Colin Quinn

“With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.”

Literature Animal Crazy Fine Behavior Elements Introducing Cages Rogues Animal Behavior

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully. And I think we're all a bit crazy if we do anything that's deviant. I've studied a great deal on deviance and aberrant behavior. Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Has Beens Form Bits Interesting Deals Crazy Stupid Mets Behavior Yeah Hopefully Not Stupid Deviants Deviance

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.”

Thinking Seems Crazy Behavior Normal Logic Delusion Distortion Perfectly Normal

Book:Half a Life: A Memoir

Source: Half a Life: A Memoir

“But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here on this stoop in summer camp as if I were normal, day after day wearing down everybody who gets near me. My behavior seems, somehow, not acute enough for them to know what to do with me, though I’m just enough of a mess to be driving everyone around me crazy.”

Ifs Knows Kind Enough Seems Crazy Behavior Normal Summer Driving Mess Merit Hospitals Camps Stoops Summer Camp

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America