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"There're always some notorious people in the crew who are doing crazy things, but I try to keep it a little more low-key. My crazy thing is always just the show and putting all my energy into it."
"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up."
"Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness - that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace."
"People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed"
"Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger."
"I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy."
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
"I don't know karate, but I know crazy."
"If there is a supreme being, he's crazy."
"Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him."
"There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing."
"To create art means to be crazy alone forever."
"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like."
"I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them."
"Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was."
"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."
"A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book."
"It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious."
"So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes it, though. They all tell me I look like a first grader or a concentration camp survivor. What's this thing that guys have for girls with long hair? Fascists, the whole bunch of them! Why do guys all think girls with long hair are the classiest, the sweetest, the most feminine? I mean, I myself know at least two hundred and fifty unclassy girls with long hair. Really."
"If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you."
