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Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Cornel West

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Cornel West
American - Educator
Born: June 2, 1953

Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

Jeffrey Kluger

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

Brene Brown

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

Guy Kawasaki

People are medicated and TV is one of the things that they are medicated with.

Frankie Boyle

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

Bryan Adams

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

C. Wright Mills

Both creatively and organizationally, being medicated has helped me immensely. My career did not start until I was medicated. And then I can track - the years I was off medication, things dipped. And the years I went back on medication is when things started to get good for me again career wise. It is 100 percent in my case undeniable that being medicated helped my creativity.

Chris Gethard

If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.

J. Vernon McGee

I'm a Bipolar 1, Rapid Cycler. So really easily, if I'm around people that are sick and are not medicated, and there's a lot of people going to AA that should be medicated that are really, truly mentally ill, then I end up being triggered.

Beth Hart

We don't want to do gimmicks. Gimmicks in XFL 1 didn't work very well.

Oliver Luck

narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.

Anna C Salter

Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen.

William Hurt

The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.

Alvin Toffler

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

Nicholas Kristof

I do not know Rep. Weiner. But I do know he seems to have the features of a narcissist. Narcissists feel empty. Narcissists feel invincible. But their emotional landscape is barren.

Drew Pinsky

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