"Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges."

-- Jon Ronson

#People Quotes #Mad Quotes #Personality Quotes

“To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are saying to him, "I wonder if you are not behaving in a way that I approve of. Convince me that you indeed are. Outrageous. Intolerable.”

Source : Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”
“It was amazing to see Donald Trump on the night before election, who had been describing Hillary Clinton as crooked and corrupt, in a matter of a moment, was describing her as a fine and dedicated public servant, once he had won the election. So, there was a kind of barbarism all the way around, I think, in this political campaign, in which the issues really were boiled down to very small sound bites.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.”
“I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.”

Source : "Biggest Loser Gains Two New Trainers" by Josh Grossberg, www.eonline.com. January 19, 2011.
“The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”
“I can now see that our needs meshed perfectly: my need to be swept away by a man, to be held securely and adored by a man, and his need to find the girl who would be pliable and receptive to his idea of a couple, who wouldn't question his unspoken authority. I don't mean he wanted a mouseâ€”and he knew very well he wasn't getting one.”

Source : Betsy Blair (2003). “The Memory of All that: Love and Politics in New York, Hollywood, and Paris”, Knopf
“And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed.”
“Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience.”

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