“People are always going to say stuff about you and there are always going to be crazy rumours out there, but as long as you know the truth, you're fine.” PeopleKnowsLongStuffCrazyFineBeing CrazyRumours Author:Vanessa Hudgens
“A really large percentage of kids from Duke go to work on Wall Street, and they make a lot of money, but they're almost slaves to their jobs, working crazy hours. Their job totally dominates their lives, and most of them aren't happy. So many of my friends are going down that path. I even thought about it for a second, like "Should I be doing that?" But I just pursued my dreams instead, and I always tell people to do that. Now I make more money than they do, and I'm doing what I love.” PeopleShouldDreamKidsJobsHoursPathCrazyStreetsWallMy FriendsSlaveMore MoneyLots Of MoneyShould IPercentagesPursuedDukes Author:Mike Posner
“The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones. They never come after you if you're holding up your end. The only thing that's bad about an abusive director is that they bully the people they can.” PeopleIfsWellsEndsCrazyTruth IsDirectorsPassionateBullyAbusive Author:Willem Dafoe
“Women became almost our bigger audience. Teenage girls went crazy for my movie. I saw it. I went to theatres all over and there were gangs of girls going and screaming. There were kids that were 10 or 11 years old when September 11 happened. They've been told for years they're going to get killed, they're going to get blown up. Every time you go on an airplane, X-ray your shoes because you're going to get blown up. Terror alert orange, don't travel. So, people have a reaction and they want to scream. Horror movies have become the new date movie.” PeopleWantYearsKidsGirlAudienceSawsHappenedCrazyGoes OnHorrorBiggerShoesTerrorTheatreReactionsRaysScreamAirplaneSeptemberTeenageOrangeGangSeptember 11Teenage GirlDate Movie Author:Eli Roth
“Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours.” PeopleMenTwoHoursWhiteCrazyRepublicanThirdsAddresses Author:Bernie Sanders
“People do things in the names of good, and in the name of ideals, but the world isn't that simple. So they end up doing things that aren't necessarily good. Even if they think they're doing the right thing, but when viewed from a different perspective they can look barbaric and crazy.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldLooksDifferentEndsNamesSimpleCrazyPerspectiveIdealsRight ThingDoing The Right ThingDifferent PerspectiveBarbaric Author:Matt Damon
“If you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayPersonsCausesGreaterCrazyLowsStakesManicHighs And LowsDepressive Author:Joan Cusack
“In Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.” PeopleIfsWantTryingStillsEndsCountrySometimesToo MuchCrazyEuropeCrowdsNoiseNot SureWant MeOther CountriesRespectfulInappropriateEncores Author:Mac DeMarco
“It's so crazy with the Internet and being able to play shows to people who are actually interested in you. I feel so lucky when that happens.” PeopleFeelsPlayShowsHappensAbleCrazyInternetLuckySo Lucky Author:Mac DeMarco
“I'm one of those gay people who's constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to live now and not to be Ennis and Jack [from Brokeback Mountain] or whatever - not that I'd mind being Ennis for half an hour. But it's been so much worse recently. It still is terrible. In Iran, they're hanging gay teenagers. I'm grateful for how far the United States, even with its crazy Christians, has come on a lot of issues. And the fact that I get called a faggot occasionally by a crack addict, while annoying, certainly isn't a lobotomy and prison.” PeopleMindStillsStatesFactsChristianHoursUnitedHalfUnited StatesIssuesCrazyTerribleGayMountainGratefulPrisonTeenagerFortunateIranCracksAnnoyingAddictGay PeopleLobotomyBrokeback Mountain Author:Dan Savage
“In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris, as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.” PeopleBigsPoliticalActorsViewsTakenFiveCrazyTelevisionPoint Of ViewTheatreOpeningParisMovie Author:Ingrid Bergman
“Most of us aren't crazy psychotics, but most of us are a whole bunch of different people. I think when you are in a position of authority, that doesn't remove that from you.” PeopleThinkingDifferentWholeCrazyPositionAuthorityBunchRemoveDifferent Peoples Author:David Hyde Pierce
“People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff."” PeopleFeelsKindCertainStuffCrazyMovie BusinessSilliness Author:Ben Affleck
“I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.” PeopleThinkingBelieveArtistOrderCrazy Author:Danger Mouse
“The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the good works. Entertainment, and the sort of soporific effect it has on people and their stress, is one thing.” PeopleWorldFeelsMatterOne ThingCrazyEffectsStressEntertainmentConnectedConvincedGood WorkTechnological Author:Edward Norton
“I come from a family and a heritage where you don't really go to therapy unless you're crazy. I want people to know that that's so not the case. It's enriching, and I've learned this new tool.” PeopleKnowsWantCasesCrazyToolsTherapyI've LearnedHeritageEnriching Author:Eva Mendes
“I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would come to photograph your work and you would just end up with this crazy material that had nothing to do with your work; maybe I'd pick up two or three photographs that were the closest to the idea. This is why when you look at the '70s, you see much less documentation and really bad material. The material will become misleading to what the piece was.” PeopleGivingLooksTwoIdeasEndsThreePiecesCrazyMaterialsPicksPhotographerPhotographInstructionClosestMisleadDocumentation Author:Marina Abramovic
“This is going to sound crazy, especially in America where there is a total inflation of the word "love," but in a sense you have to love the people in front of the camera. There has to be trust between the one who is behind the camera and the people on the other side, so that they can relax. They have to feel they are safe, and that way they don't have to pretend just because they are scared.” PeopleWayFeelsAmericaSoundSidesBehindsCrazyFrontsSafeCamerasScaredRelaxInflationWords Love Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“I want people to understand and recognize that when it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are. Everyone needs love. We need it like air or water. We just don't know how to get it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantNeedsWaterKnow HowAirCrazyDatingNeed Love Author:Leslye Headland
“The good thing, really, is that electronic music started as a fringe subculture, and now it's the biggest youth culture in the world. People pretty much everywhere go crazy for electronic music.” PeopleWorldCultureCrazyYouthGood ThingsFringeElectronic MusicYouth CultureSubculture Author:Paul van Dyk
“I can't stand what people do to each other. I think we're brilliant as a species. I think we are amazing. I think that God is incredible, that He just gave us everything. Everything in our face. Everything for us to use. And sometimes we're such shitheads. And it makes me crazy.” PeopleThinkingI CanSometimesUseFacesCrazySpeciesIncrediblesBrilliantShitheads Author:Pat Benatar
“The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.” PeopleKnowsWayCrazyBest WayRhythmMagnificent Author:Damon Albarn
“I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.” PeopleThinkingBelieveSaidLeftCrazyGardenIntelligentRomneyEdenGarden Of EdenCrazy ThingsMissouriWacky Author:Christopher Hitchens
“When I went to Israel, it was a little disorienting, because there are so many people who look crazy and were dressed like me. There, I was just one of the apocalyptic crowd.” PeopleLooksLittlesCrazyCrowdsIsraelLike MeJust OneApocalyptic Author:A. J. Jacobs
“It`s probably fair to say I have taken myself too seriously on some jobs. I`m sure I`m more guilty of being difficult than I`d like to remember. I don`t regret my desires; I`ve regretted the way I would communicate my desires. Maybe I`ve lost a job because of some rumor, I doubt it. But nobody good that I`ve worked with has ever said anything negative about me, because we`ve never had a negative experience. By good, I mean directors who do their homework, people that are passionate, crazy, never sleep, and do like I do and just go after it.” PeopleWayMeanSaidJobsRememberDesireLostDifficultSleepTakenDoubtCrazyRegretDirectorsNegativeFairsPassionateCommunicateGuiltyRumorHomeworkDon't RegretNever SleepNegative Experiences Author:Val Kilmer
“To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.” PeopleKindChanceMistakeCrazyMaking Mistakes Author:Walt Disney
“A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a certain kind of temperament is more important than brains. You need to keep raw irrational emotion under control. You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success” PeopleNeedsKindImportantCertainLossAbilityEmotionBrainCrazyDisciplineTerribleAdversityExtremesDrivenInvestorsIrrationalTemperamentGoing Crazy Author:Charlie Munger
“Are people crazy? People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They waited in line to buy toilet paper. They waited in line for money. And if they didn't have any money they waited in longer lines. You waited to go to sleep and then you waited to awaken. You waited to get married and you waited to get divorced. You waited for it to rain, you waited for it to stop. You waited to eat and then you waited to eat again. You waited in a shrink's office with a bunch of psychos and you wondered if you were one.” PeopleIfsDiesLinesSleepCrazyOfficePaperMarriedRainBunchDivorcedShrinksToiletsGoing To SleepPsychoCrazy PeopleToilet Paper Author:Charles Bukowski
“Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?” PeopleWorldCrazyHungryDestroyedElsewhereSurplus Author:Anne Frank
“I think if some people know anything about African cinema it's something like the The Gods Must Be Crazy, which is such an awful, condescending movie that debases African participation, and anything I can do to shift that and draw attention to rich and widely varied films that come from there- because there's all kinds of filmmakers from Senegal, you have Mambety, and Haroun with Grigris.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsKindI CanFilmCan DoAttentionRichCrazyDrawsAll KindsAwfulCinemaFilmmakerParticipationBeing CrazyCondescending Author:Elvis Mitchell
“We found that if you played a bunch of punk singles in a row, people would dance like crazy and then get worn out and go somewhere else in the house. And if you played reggae all the time, people ended up leaning against the walls and nodding their head. But if you mixed it up, the floor got more and more packed, and the energy from the two types of music seemed to feed into each other, and the adrenaline from the punk, and the seductive sway of the reggae seemed to fit together.” PeopleIfsTwoTogetherFoundHouseEnergyCrazyWallTypeFitBunchPunkWornSomewhere ElseSeductiveAdrenalineSinglesWorn OutReggaeNodding Author:Dave Wakeling
“The wheel [migration] has been spinning and spinning and spinning. Wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where that circle stops spinning in that crazy way? Because that's a huge wheel that's crushing people's lives, real people's lives, families.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensRealNiceImagineCrazyHugeCirclesCrushWheelsBeing NiceFamily LifeSpinningMigration Author:Ruben Martinez
“I hope my talent has something to do with it. I just think this business is so crazy. I obviously do the best I can, and the directors I admire see something in me. But this is a strange business, and there are people who are incredibly talented who never make it, who never get these opportunities. So that's why I say I'm lucky. I don't feel that I'm not talented - I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.” PeopleThinkingFeelsI CanOpportunityCrazyTalentStrangeLuckyDirectorsAdmireDo The Best Author:Jennifer Jason Leigh
“When stuff is coming to an end, people freak out and they act crazy.” PeopleEndsStuffCrazyFreakComing To An End Author:LIZ
“I'm doing something new on South Street and people are telling me I'm crazy It's kinda freaking me out.” PeopleCrazyStreetsSouthSomething New Author:Stephen Starr
“Start saving your pennies now. People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I’m worth it.” PeopleYearsShowsTogetherCrazySavingWorth ItPenniesCrazy ThingsHandbags Author:Madonna Ciccone
“I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsLittlesSeemsYoungActorsStarsStuffKnow HowCrazyFollowingMovieMovie StarBodyguard Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Pop stars are sending the message that their sexuality is the strongest thing they have to offer, and that's confusing and misleading to girls and women, especially since there's not enough of a counterbalance from those who rely on their other assets, like their music. Also, with the new obsession with all things "booty," it's important that women - and it's often women of color - aren't turned into mere caricatures. Right now it's: "Bend over." That's all people want to see. That's crazy. It's so far from where we should be.” PeopleWantShouldImportantEnoughGirlStarsCrazyColorRight NowOffersMessagesAll ThingsMerePopsSexualityObsessionRelyStrongestAssetsConfusingMisleadCaricaturesPop StarsBooty Author:Santigold
“Models eat. They're crazy about moderation, but they eat. There's this feeling that all models are into drugs or drinking or whatever, but I've got to say, 99% of the girls I work with are the healthiest people I know. Of course, as humans, we're not going to eat salads and organic food all the time.” PeopleKnowsHumansFeelingsGirlCoursesCrazyDrugModelsDrinkingModerationSaladOrganic Food Author:Chrissy Teigen
“I don't feel like I have to use big words or theories to get my point across. People are like, "Whoa. That's crazy" and make it into this crazy thing.” PeopleFeelsUseBigsCrazyTheoryCrazy Things Author:Jhene Aiko
“People can be anonymous when they go on blogs and say crazy things that they would never have the courage to say to your face.” PeopleFacesCrazyGoes OnYour FaceBlogsCrazy Things Author:John Leguizamo
“Some people think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy.” PeopleThinkingYearsCrazy Author:Richard P. Feynman
“It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?” PeopleWorldBelieveLittlesLongFactsAgeEasyCrazyMessagesTalesIndifferenceBelongingBelieve In GodIndifferentNoisySmall World Book:The Quotable Oswald Chambers Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.” PeopleWarPartyCrazyDangerousMouthsRageFlagsTolerableIncessantFlag Waving Author:Nicholas von Hoffman
“The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.” PeopleThinkingKindChildrenIdeasDreamEasyQualityCrazyChildhoodCapableAdultsAreasVictimStuckAbsurdStayingNew IdeasSeriousnessChildhood Dreams Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.” PeopleWantI CanPlayWonderHellCrazyEgoSellsSeatsArenaBecause I CanNosebleeds Author:Whitney Houston
“You go to a restaurant with a friend for lunch and the next table, two people are sitting opposite each other. They don't talk! All they do is look at the screens of their cell phones and show it to the person that they're with. And when people do that to me, they want me to look at pictures on their cell phone? I can't even look at little things like that. I think it is all crazy.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksLittlesPersonsI CanTwoShowsNextCrazySittingOppositesTablesPhonesScreensCellsRestaurantsLittle ThingsLunchWant MeCell Phone Author:Brigid Berlin
“You can't blame all people's psychological ills on religion. A lot of people were crazy before they got in a religion and they just happen to be crazy and religious.” PeopleHappensReligiousCrazyBlamePsychologicalBeing Crazy Author:Lino Rulli
“I am realizing how old I am 'cause I am meeting so many people that were born in the 80s, which is crazy to me that I was going through puberty and [they weren't] even alive.” PeopleCausesRealizingBornAliveCrazyMeetings80sPuberty Author:Rob Corddry
“In the black community when we think of a couselor or sitting down with a therapist there is that taboo attached to people of being psychotic and crazy. Really it's not it's just sitting down having a conversation.” PeopleThinkingBlackCommunityCrazyConversationSittingTabooTherapistsSitting DownPsychoticBlack Community Author:Gabrielle Dennis