Sociopath Quotes - Page 3

• I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Research, World, Function

  "'Jack Reacher' Villain Patrick Heusinger on Playing Opposite Tom Cruise". Interview with Harper's Bazaar, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 24, 2016.

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• Sociopaths are often extremely charming. They are people who are better than you and me at charming people, at being charismatic. I've heard this more often than I can count: "He was the most charming man I ever met," or, "She was the sexiest woman I ever met," or, "The most interesting person I ever met . . ."

  Martha Stout

  Men, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Trump is a narcissistic sociopath; he's doing exactly what he said he would do.

  Reza Aslan

  Narcissistic, Trump, Said

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You have psychopaths and sociopaths in charge.

  Gerald Celente

  Psychopath

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• I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll insert these kid-friendly articulate sociopaths who are usually yelling at the children for their own benefit.

  Matt Nix

  Children, Character, Kids

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths.

  Lucy Lawless

  Running, Thinking, People

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• Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.

  John Oliver

  Fools Day, April, Excited

  "John Oliver Hates April Fools' Day, Says It's for Sociopaths". www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 30, 2015.

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• If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.

  Lorin Stein

  Sex, Writing, Nonfiction

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• I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.

  Brady Corbet

  Play, Stuff, Psychopath

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like to call everyone that I find slightly annoying a 'sociopath.'

  Bo Burnham

  Annoying

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• Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

  Cory Doctorow

  Kings, Islands, Choices

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• APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,' I said. I'd looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf. 'It means I don't connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going to pick that one.' 'How do you even know that?' she said. 'You're fifteen years old, for goodness' sake. You should be ... I don't know, chasing girls or playing video games.' 'You're telling a sociopath to chase girls?

  Dan Wells

  Girl, Mean, Years

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.41, Macmillan

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• How do you prevent a little sociopath from becoming a big, full-blown sociopath? Sit on him.

  John Rosemond

  Becoming, Littles, Bigs

  John Rosemond (2007). “Parenting by the Book: Biblical Wisdom for Raising Your Child”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Sociopaths differ fairly dramatically in how their brains react to emotional words. An emotional word is love, hate, anger, mom, death, anything that we associate with an emotional reaction. We are wired to process those words more readily than neutral, nonemotional words. We are very emotional creatures. But sociopaths listen as evenly to emotional words as they do to lamp or book - there's no neurological difference.

  Martha Stout

  Mom, Hate, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The big characters who occupy science, especially modern science, are all "off" in fundamental ways. I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think. I wanted to pay tribute to that mind.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Character, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I deal with the depraved, the sick, the pathetic, the disturbing and the profoundly depressed. I will try it all on. I will try on what I am and what I never want to be. And everything I wanted to be, but never can be. I can be a supermodel, or your worst nightmare. Off-stage, I just get to leave it, and nobody thinks I'm like that. This is what prevents me from being a psychopath and a sociopath, my time on stage.

  Susan Messing

  Thinking, Sick, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I can’t help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I’m already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming. I think she figured I was joking.

  Holly Black

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Tom Walls' buddies remain an isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame cranky sociopaths for the problems besetting society. If it weren't for brown-nosing evil firebrands, he would have no friends. The ideas backing up his rejoinders are extremely superficial and sex-crazed.

  Linda Chavez

  Sex, Wall, Stress

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• Biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

  Moby

  Delusional, Cases, Dies

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human. That we can be exempt from the human condition, either through intelligence or accomplishment or success or humor. Bu biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

  Moby

  Accomplishment, Want, Culture

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet, when your ears come upon the truth, the facts of life, you hide your faces and cry, not able

  Bobby Miller

  Religious, Lying, Laughing

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• And your excuse?' I asked. 'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said. I gave him a look. 'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.' 'I thought you were friends.' 'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Nice, Mean, Mad

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• Last guy I was interested in turned out to be an incestuous necrophiliac," she said. "So no, not currently dating, and definitely not doing any more shopping in the 'sociopath' category

  Mira Grant

  Shopping, Dating, Guy

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• You could ask me to teach you.” “Huh?” This night is getting weird in a hurry. “Teach me like you’re teaching a class or something? What are you going to call it: ‘You Too Can Be a Sociopath 101’?” “It would be more like a graduate-level class.” I start to snicker. His sense of humour sneaks up on you. Then I remember who’s talking and bite it off.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Teaching, Night, Talking

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.118, Delacorte Press

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• The power paradox is that we gain power by advancing the welfare of other people and yet when we feel powerful, it turns us into impulsive sociopaths and we lose those very skills. If you're in the military, you gain power by forging strong ties in your comrades. And then the irony is that once we feel powerful and we are taken with our own success, we ignore the skills that got us power in the first place.

  Dacher Keltner

  Strong, Powerful, Military

  Source: www.pbs.org

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