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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isnt happening.
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.'
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.
Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.
Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.
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.
I think everyone is fairly fed up with mildly dysfunctional people being put under pressure and then behaving abysmally.
Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
I tend to stand up and speak up when I see something dysfunctional happening.
Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.
After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.
I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.
If you grew up in a dysfunctional family, then there is really no hope for you to have a good relationship. That is another myth that we have to throw off, so that we can get into what I call Reality.
I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.
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.
After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.
Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.
I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
I come from a completely dysfunctional alcoholic family, so we kind of parented ourselves a little bit.
People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.
I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
No matter how dysfunctional we are, we can still have a positive impact on each other's lives.
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.
We have states. And we have cities. And we have counties. And we have the private sector. And - and so the country still works even when Washington's dysfunctional.
America is one big dysfunctional family and we are still trying to figure out how to live together.
I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous resilience.
People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.
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.
The first thing we need to do is realize that some of our old beliefs are dysfunctional and no longer work, if indeed they ever did. If the desire to do that isn't there, there's nothing to do.
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.
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.
Continuing to expose the children to my and Adrienne's dysfunctional and volatile relationship is causing harm to the children.
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
I've not met one person, even if they are not creative, who isn't dysfunctional. I guess artists are just a bit more aware of their dysfunction because it serves a purpose.
Candor is the key to collaborating effectively. Lack of candor leads to dysfunctional environments.
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.
We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.
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
The people of the Balkans are like a dysfunctional family. We may fight and argue, but in the end we are family.
I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.
It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness.
I've said this many times: Rock 'n' roll is this magnet for dysfunctional people who only know how to communicate through the medium of a live show.
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
The immigration flows have to be controlled. We have to know who comes into Italy. The problem shouldn't be left to oversized, dysfunctional, nongovernmental groups.
Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn't?
I do think that it's a dysfunctional relationship between columnists and commentators, because they both seem to hate each other, like a terrible marriage.
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.
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family.
I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!
My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional, but we're still family.
I think dysfunctional people are being funneled into very corporate behaviour. Look at the Brits... no one's fighting, and it's boring.
We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
