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  • Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope.

    Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.40, Penguin
  • I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived in such abject poverty and dysfunction. And they're still in my life today, because I consider them to be friends, actually.

    Source: www.theskanner.com
  • I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

    Art   Dysfunction   Joy  
  • Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

  • But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

    Religious   Art   Sex  
  • Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

  • I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world is rocking and cracking open in weird and worrying places. And I think Coriolanus, the play, reflected that.

    "Ralph Fiennes Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Collaborating with Wes Anderson, If He Will Direct More Shakespeare, and More in Berlin". Interview, collider.com. February 10, 2014.
  • If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

  • There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.

  • Bob Dole is going to be appearing in a Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears. Yeah, apparently Dole says that if this doesn't cure his erectile dysfunction, nothing will.

    Dysfunction   Pepsi   Bob  
  • Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

  • We need to have profound compassion for the people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life, and sexual identity disorders. This is a very real issue. It's not funny, it's sad. Any of you who have members of your family that are in the lifestyle-we have a member of our family that is. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say this is gay. It's anything but gay.

    Real   Gay   Thinking  
  • I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

    Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
  • As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to be the world leader for another century - if we can fix some of this political dysfunction. ... We've got a lot of national security challenges, but if we get our economy together, and if we can get our political system to work well, I am really confident about our future.

    "OBAMA: 'We Are Not Going To Get A Deal' Without Raising Tax Rates". Interview with Julianna Goldman, www.businessinsider.com. December 4, 2012.
  • After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

    Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It”, p.93, Profile Books
  • Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

    Music   Fun   Band  
  • I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

  • Don't misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.

    EdWatch National Education Conference, November 06, 2004.
  • It's hard not to get down on the government when you see dysfunction play out on our TVs every day. Frankly, sometimes at every level of government.

    "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. June 14, 2015.
  • The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

  • If your decision-making is improved on the ground, certainly you'll be less likely to make the kind of errors that will linger with you the rest of your life and lead to regret, remorse, and a whole cascade of psychological dysfunction.

    Source: www.gq.com
  • If you're playing someone who's impeded by fear, or shyness, or has whatever dysfunction your character might have, you have to achieve the dysfunction first, imaginatively, in order to play someone who is trying to negotiate their way out of it.

    "Colin Firth and Tom Hooper interview: The King's Speech, Rocky IV and more". Interview with Michael Leader, www.denofgeek.com. Jan 6, 2011.
  • My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

  • When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

    Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.48, New World Library
  • Religion was no cure for dysfunction.

  • , I have a friend living as a woman. But she's almost too "normal," to be quite frank. I'm not relying on her, because "The Jerry Springer Show" has such huge characters. I'm trying to come up with a little more dysfunction than that.

    "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.
  • Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

    "The Soul Of Winter: A Call To Deepen" by Dr. Judith Rich, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2009.
  • Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.

  • We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.

  • Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?

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