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Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth. -- Lemn Sissay
I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make. -- Janice Dickinson
I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction. -- Mariel Hemingway
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable. -- James Hillman
If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction. -- Eckhart Tolle
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. -- James Young
I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved. -- Emmy Rossum
An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous. -- Josh Radnor
And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it. -- Hugh Jackman
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are. -- Eckhart Tolle
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. -- Henry Louis Gates
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. -- Melissa Gilbert
I hate that word dysfunction. -- Jonathan Franzen
Can true function arise from basic dysfunction? -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really. -- George Michael
The common ingredient in every single dysfunction is an issue of power. -- Caroline Myss
The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed. -- Eckhart Tolle
My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. -- Oprah Winfrey
After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them. -- Marshall Goldsmith
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world. -- Jan Karon
Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've never experienced trauma. -- Lisa Unger
A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the same service for an individual, dominating our psyches so that other troubles can go unnoticed. -- Martha Beck
There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood. -- Julie Brown
There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood. -- Julie Brown
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. -- Dana Spiotta
I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse. -- William Gibson
I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project. -- Laura Hillenbrand
I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project -- Laura Hillenbrand
Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative. -- Alexander McCall Smith
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
I think that in any family - black, white, Chinese, Spanish, whatever - family is family. You know that there's dysfunction, and that there's this cousin who doesn't like this auntie. But, at the end of the day, like I say, love brings everybody together. -- Lauren London
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.' -- Bharati Mukherjee
If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada. -- Mary Karr
Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines. -- Nancy Gibbs
The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part. -- Eckhart Tolle
One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction. -- Eric Holder
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. -- Abbie Cornish
People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the planet, pollution, destruction of forests, countless manifestations of humans using their intelligence in the service of the dysfunction, the madness. It's a strange juxtaposition. Humans are intelligent, but if you look at history or even watch TV, they're also incredibly stupid. -- Eckhart Tolle
Religion was no cure for dysfunction. -- Marjorie M. Liu
Everybody has some dysfunction in their families. -- Hillary Clinton
Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction. -- Kathy Lette
I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse." -- Justin Torres
I was born an emotional tampon in a cauldron of dysfunction. -- Dana Gould
We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole. -- Eli Attie
Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt. -- Dave Ramsey
If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again. -- Bob Dylan
Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple. -- Mo Rocca
Marriage is designed to pull dysfunction to the surface of our lives, set it on fire and help us grow. -- Tyler Ward
If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great. -- Eckhart Tolle
Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough. -- James Hillman
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. -- Eckhart Tolle
Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough! -- Michael Bloomberg
There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help. -- Laura Miller
We can have a large impact on the prevention and amelioration of abuse, drug problems, violence, mental health problems, and dysfunction in families. -- Steven C. Hayes
Keep a logical but open mind. What one may pass off as a psychological dysfunction could be a burst of imagination at its finest. -- Lauren Lola
When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease. -- Paul Shepard
If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction." -- Eckhart Tolle
Everyone has some dysfunction in their families. They have to deal with it. You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person. -- Hillary Clinton
The dysfunction was not the character of one person, it was the split of family by divorce, with the ripples felt for eternity by bloodline. -- Amber Garibay
In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction. -- Eden Robinson
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. -- Chuck Todd
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it. -- Kara DioGuardi
I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so many people and sometimes to me too. -- John Ashbery
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Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction? -- Vicki Robin
In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions.. -- Don Henley
So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families. -- Stephen Karam

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