Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with… — Mike Vogel Copy Share Image
I don't really know. I think the first test is when you're very little and you fart, and you laugh at it… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and… — Tim Conway Copy Share Image
The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so… — Andy Dick Copy Share Image
“Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat. — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive. — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
There is a vulnerability that any woman has in a situation where you're surrounded by men in an enclosed space. You learn… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The thing is too that when you sell people a false reality and they take that to be the norm, when that… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When I first started comedy, before I kind of gained any national prominence, I - in a weird way - went back… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever.… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Under the heading of "defense mechanisms,” psychoanalysis describes a number of ways in which a person becomes alienated from himself. For example,… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
