Quotes tagged ‘Dysfunctional’

(5 total)

“I was quite disruptive and out there. Then I found myself in a load of remedial classes being told how to use a ruler. But when they tested my IQ, they found out I was quite intelligent. Trouble is, I’m definitely on the spectrum somewhere – there’s a dysfunctional side.”

— Keith Flint, matt-blake.co.uk

“I have been working out the wrong problem. Thousands of words on the wrong problem. I have perfected a two-handed backhand to clobber the lob that is coming at me that is: the wrong problem. I have aced the wrong problem.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, thecut.com

“When you’ve spent a lifetime among dysfunctional people, operating out of self-protection, competition, and a compulsion to please without expecting reciprocation, everyone seems untrustworthy and disappointing. This is an illusion created by years of you treating your value as conditional (you must…”

— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com

“Zelda: I wanted to discuss this rationally but you’re making it hard. Mr. Rothwell: Hey, she failed the test — what do you want me to do about it? Zelda: But the circumstances were unfair! Mr. Rothwell: Look, if it makes you feel better, you can blame this on me. But I think we both know these probl…”

— Nell Scovell, Norma Safford Vela, Zelda Spellman, Beth Broderick, imdb.com

“I would have been perfectly happy to have written a contrarian book about how interesting and potentially hopeful and novel Trump-as-president was. I would have written a positive Trump book. And I thought it would be a fun thing to do—an audacious way to look at the world. But then I got in there a…”

— Michael Wolff, hollywoodreporter.com