Randa Abdel-Fattah Quotes

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?

My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

Entitlement is lethal.

We used to be such prima donnas.

Entitlement is just the grossest kind of human behavior.

Narcissism is a fact of life - it's a natural part of growing older, right? It's a part of your development. So being angry about the younger generation being 'narcissistic,' that's like saying 'Oh, this young generation only wants to poop in their diaper! They don't want to use the bathroom!'

A lot of people in Hollywood are on that ego trip. They think they're more than somebody else. I've told a lot of stars in my career, 'Hey, man you're looking down on the people who made you. lf you keep doing that, you're gonna fall back down.'

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am. That's a lead singer's disease.

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

I respect my parents' opinion very much. No matter how old you are, what your parents think is very important. If they like your boyfriend or if they like some work you've done. And if they don't, it's more shattering than anybody else telling you, because they're the most honest.

Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.