Todd Solondz Quotes

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

Todd Solondz

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• We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

  

  Dale Archer
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Business
  • Beautiful
  • Learn

• You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Listen

• Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Evil

• I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Support

• I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Money
  • Color
  • Blue

• A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Great
  • Business
  • Transformation

• It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black, so I'm supposed to think a certain way? I'm supposed to have certain opinions? I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • People
  • Black

• Unfortunately, in this country the propaganda for entering the Common Market has been largely based on defeatism. We are told that unless we do it we are going to have a terrible time. That is no way to go into a negotiation. You ought to go into a negotiation on the basis that they have need of you, not just you of them.

  

  Clement Attlee
  • Time
  • Country

• I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Music
  • Marketing

• Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Sports
  • Blue

• I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.

  

  Armistead Maupin
  • Life

• Comfort food is really anything you want at that time. That said, I really love Naple-style pizza.

  

  Geoffrey Zakarian
  • Time
  • Food
  • Style

• My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

  

  Peter MacKay
  • Party
  • Road

• In library science school, back in the years of glowing green non-graphical screens and protocols called Archie and Veronica, I wrote Internet documentation.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • School
  • Science
  • Green

• Some of the things I have written about are a way of connecting with my father - I know he knew who Idi Amin was, and I know he knew who Longford was. And I know he knew who Nixon was, because shortly before he died, I talked to him about Watergate.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Father

• To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • History
  • Deep

• We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Up
  • Power
  • Question

• We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Lost
  • Brother

• A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers. Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn't hers to command. Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn't obey us, that means it's only a deception. Don't fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don't fall for it. Its all a deception.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Mean

• Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take music into, or to attempt to do that.

  

  M. Ward
  • World
  • Music
  • Alive

• With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Different
  • Energy

• Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom.

  

  Eric Ludy
  • Purity
  • Kingdom Of God
  • Blissful

• Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Deception
  • Bridges
  • Narcissism