Dysfunctional Quotes

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

Family, Feeling, Start

People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.
Bo Bennett

Life, Families, Destined

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

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.
Henry Rollins

Government is dysfunctional.
Michael Bloomberg

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

Work, Different, Put

If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
Carly Fiorina

Decisions, Process, Flawed

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

Children, Parents, Long

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
Gene Hackman

Good, Pretty, Number

Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed to be racing each other to the bottom. Setting up One Big Regulator would end that problem.
Thomas Frank

End, Problem, Big

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
Iain Duncan Smith

Money, Government, Problems

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

Job, Saying, Off

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

Same, Broken, Kids

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

Work, Government, Elected

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.
Melissa Gilbert

I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.
Picabo Street

Life, Home, Living

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

Life, Work, Family

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.
Jeb Bush

Time, Today, Political

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

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

Food, Blame, America

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.
Star Jones

Family, Fight, May

I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.
James Caan

Family, Play, Fact

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.
Martin Sheen

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!
Werner Herzog

Good, Whenever, Hostile

Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.
Shailene Woodley

Family, Whether, Admit

For some in Washington, it's become sport to pick on the federal workforce. I think they do so unjustly. The very foundation of a stable America is having a government that functions well. Many countries have dysfunctional governments, because they don't have a good government workforce.
Ken Salazar

Good, Government, America

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

Music, Fun, Put

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
Jay Roach

Love, Feeling, Laugh

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
Sidney Blumenthal

War, Against, Actually

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.
Ann Macbeth

Art, Between, Film

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