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"The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music."
"There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions."
"Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad."
"I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do."
"If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it - a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all - you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source."
"I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom."
"As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out."
"New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer."
"We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital."
"All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons."
"Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente" tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses."
"Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane."
"My film isn't about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It's what it was really like. It was crazy. And the way we made it was very much like the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little we went insane."
"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards."
"One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away."
"I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane."
"Were it not for Scientology, I would either be completely insane or dead by now."
"When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish."
"If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!"
"To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone."
