Marc Ribot Quotes

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.

I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Was it not you, or such like advisers, that dissuaded her and stirred her up against us and other of the subjects?

As humans, we're so easily persuaded. We join this cause or that cause, and suddenly the other thing is wrong.

I'm usually the kind of person where if someone tells me, 'Oh my God, you have to watch this show. It's amazing,' I kind of want to go against it and not watch it. But for 'Stranger Things,' I couldn't resist. I had to watch it.

It's contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that's how it is.

I hate films. Films make me sick now, and if something makes me sick, I always back off.

There's going to be people that try to sway you to do things that you shouldn't do.

so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

Funny how someone telling you not to do something can talk you into it.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

You count snouts,” Straha said. “Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.

Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right.

Every single day in a marriage, we influence each other. It is a matter of am I going to have a positive influence or a negative influence?

Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.