A Quote by Spike Jonze
I think there's a knee-jerk reaction to things from parents.
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I'm not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I'm an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality. But I have a knee-jerk reaction against organized religions. Actually, I have knee-jerk reactions against anything that's organized.
Once I got divorced, there was this knee-jerk reaction to get back in the action and date. I think there's something wrong in that.
My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.
It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.
Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.
We live in a world that builds people's expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.
There's always a knee-jerk reaction in our business to analyze and determine why something didn't work.
In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.
Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.
I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
I stopped reading music reviews because it's somebody having a knee-jerk reaction to a song. I realized that that's not the definitive interpretation. It won't last long. It's a fleeting thing. What matters are people's relationships with these things over time and sometimes songs just take a really long time to reveal their true identity.
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
There's a knee jerk reaction in Washington when something isn't perfect to just add more money, add more personnel, it'll all be OK. That's not true, especially with complex issues like veterans health care.
Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them - i.e., reflecting - if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.
I read a bunch of books about Mengele because he was pretty sick. That was how 'Angel Of Death' came about. I know why people misinterpret it, just because we don't say Nazism is very bad. They get this knee-jerk reaction to it.
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