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Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together. -- Mariella Frostrup
Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors. -- Gene Hackman
Dysfunctional muscles are generally not diseased, aging, or broken. They are starved of motion. -- Pete Egoscue
Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds. -- Elizabeth Meriwether
Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not. -- Shailene Woodley
If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry. -- Carly Fiorina
The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film. -- Ann Macbeth
People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life. -- Bo Bennett
I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others. -- Viggo Mortensen
We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration. -- Martin Sheen
I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are. -- Henry Rollins
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting. -- James Surowiecki
I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing. -- Andrew Cuomo
I think dysfunctional people are being funneled into very corporate behaviour. Look at the Brits... no one's fighting, and it's boring. -- Robbie Williams
I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor. -- Aida Turturro
Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents. -- Michael Gove
If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program. -- Noam Chomsky
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
The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system. -- Noam Chomsky
I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good. -- Thandie Newton
I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit. -- John le Carre
Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently. -- Kenneth Branagh
In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene. -- Iain Duncan Smith
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination? -- Iain Sinclair
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case. -- Tony Abbott
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' -- Jeff Foxworthy
With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty. -- Iain Duncan Smith
I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group. -- Patrick Rothfuss
We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional. -- Chris Pine
Government is dysfunctional. -- Michael Bloomberg
Every family is dysfunctional. -- Andy Garcia
I love books about dysfunctional families. -- Sara Shepard
The mind-identified state is severely dysfunctional. -- Eckhart Tolle
I grew up in a dysfunctional family. -- Melissa Gilbert
We put the fun back into dysfunctional -- Billie Joe Armstrong
To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent. -- Berton Averre
The human race is one big dysfunctional family. -- Robert Barron
Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts. -- Mike Tyson
Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional. -- Rebekah Brooks
Well, maybe I'm not so emotionally dysfunctional after all. -- Ian Kelsey
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. -- Sara Shepard
Cats are our last best chance to have a dysfunctional relationship. -- John Bush
The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. -- Sara Shepard
'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. -- Sara Shepard
Ive always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things. -- Warren Farrell
People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind. -- Sue Grafton
I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive. -- James Dean Bradfield
A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. -- Mary Karr
People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life -- Bo
"That we're dysfunctional and toxic!""We were dysfunctional and toxic," I correct her. -- Tarryn Fisher
I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional. -- Kathy Najimy
It seems like all the sitcoms on now, the families are kind of dysfunctional. -- Kevin Nealon
We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal. -- Carnie Wilson
My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them. -- Kelly Ripa
Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune. -- bell hooks
Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families. -- Lisa Kleypas
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Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world. -- Julie Delpy
Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional. -- Edward Abbey
If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club. -- Martha MacIsaac
Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment. -- Gregory S. Paul
In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't. -- Malachy McCourt
Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional. -- Temple Grandin
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional. -- Jeremy Grantham
Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them. -- James Franco
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. -- Carl Bernstein
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. -- Carl Bernstein
We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family. -- Star Jones
We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren -- Prince Charles
So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems. -- Eckhart Tolle
The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city school and broken black families. -- Star Parker
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed. -- Tamora Pierce
Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation. -- Stephanie Pace Marshall
I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them. -- Kelly Ripa
It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family. -- Anna Wintour
It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together. -- Patrick Duffy
People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing. -- Guy Browning
I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be. -- Russell Means
Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently. -- Joe Bastianich
I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that. -- Werner Herzog
I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that! -- Werner Herzog
Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them. -- Patrick Lencioni
After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration. -- Sidney Blumenthal
I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide. -- Story Musgrave
After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them. -- Marshall Goldsmith
It's good to learn early that every show is a family---complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness... -- Kristin Chenoweth
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature. -- Al Gore
In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system. -- Renee Fredrickson
Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think. -- Peter R. Orszag
Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional? -- Rachel Nichols
I think our collective psychosis is hilarious. With the world moving as fast as it is, if we weren't dysfunctional, we couldn't function. -- Christopher Titus
Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes. -- Eckhart Tolle
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isnt happening. -- Sophie Hannah
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well. -- Andrew Weil
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isn't happening. -- Sophie Hannah
Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives? -- Sandra Bernhard
My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu. -- Kirby Wright
Most organisations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person's divisive dysfunctional behaviour can permeate the entire organisation like a cancer. -- Tim Field
Left-leaning policies - I'm 52 years old, I've been to Cuba, I've been to dysfunctional state oriented places - left-leaning policies fail the lower and middle classes. -- Anthony Scaramucci
Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion. -- Petra Kelly
When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula. -- Denis Leary
I bet a guy at a bar 50 bucks that I was more dysfunctional than he was. He raped me. So I tipped him. I'm very competitive. -- Christopher Titus
The current relationship between companies and the workforce is like marrying into a dysfunctional family. Only you don't get to escape when the holiday meal is over. -- Bill Jensen
One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am. -- Michel Faber
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional. -- Richard Paul Evans
You'd be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look -- T. D. Jakes
As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could. -- Christopher Fowler
Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable. -- Barack Obama
Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversation starter. Nor was it a favoured activity for dysfunctional couples or suffering individuals. -- Dan Hill
On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family. -- Kurt Overhardt
Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency. -- Rem Koolhaas
You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.' -- Damian Lewis
For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview." -- Amy Davidson
For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview. -- Amy Davidson
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
Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books? -- Mitch Albom
There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works. -- Moby
I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person. -- Shelley Fabares

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