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  We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.

  Ann Voskamp

  Jesus, Broken, Grace

  Source: www.hslda.org

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• I knew that the world was a harsh place, and my family was a mess, and even though I danced as fast as I could, I did not feel welcome, did not feel the great Shalom. THIS WORLD WAS NEVER A GOOD MATCH FOR ME. But my belief was that there was a loving magical energy in the world - seen in Nature's beauty and awesomeness, my best girl and women friends, art, music.

  Anne Lamott

  Girl, Art, Energy

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Every makeup artist has a straw somewhere on them, pretty much at all times. They're pros, and it's a lot easier to sip things backstage and not mess with your lipstick that way. You learn fast to always ask for a straw when your makeup is done.

  Kendall Jenner

  Artist, Makeup, Done

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I love every minute in the kitchen with my kids, even the mess (I've learned to embrace it!). I find that in the car on the way home from school, I often get one-word answers when I ask about their day. But when we're cooking, I get in-depth stories.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Home, School, Kids

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• In my work, I'm passionate about trying different things and being okay if I mess up. Now I'm trying to bring that into my own life.

  Rowan Blanchard

  Trying Different Things, Passionate, Okay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's the true meaning of music being a universal language, constantly fighting and going through different boundaries in order for new people to hear the music and be like, "Oh, sh*t! I mess with this Pitbull kid."

  Pitbull

  Kids, Fighting, Order

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Environment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's easy to ignore the mess around election do that over here in Germany. It's just a blip on the radar for the German culture. They're like, "Y'all are crazy over there. Next segment." I'm not saying they're not scared. They're just wondering when people are going to wake up and see the pattern they themselves lived through and could see coming from a much greater distance. They don't have the hubris of youth to luxuriate in. According to the Germans I've spoken with, Trump's rise looks very similar to what happened prior to Hitler rising to power.

  Measha Brueggergosman

  Crazy, Distance, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Images work on so many different levels. As a writer you feel them, try not to get in their way or narrow them down to anything other or less complex. A writer is a curator of sorts - once you've brought the images together you try to stand at a respectful distance and let them speak for themselves. Try not to mess with their ambiguities and contradictions. They are what they are, irreducible. This is their integrity.

  Laurie Sheck

  Integrity, Distance, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't keep from despairing. I let myself despair. I just don't linger there for too long. There's too much to laugh about, two knuckleheads I have to feed, and a lot of really excellent television to watch. I think the mess we're in deserves the full range of human feeling, from despair to its opposite, which I would say is not hope, happiness, or peace, but freedom.

  Emily Raboteau

  Thinking, Long, Laughing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You're going to face a choice in November. This is a choice between the policies that got us into this
  mess in the first place and the policies that got us out of this mess - and what the other side
  is counting on is people not having a good memory.

  Barack Obama

  Memories, People, Choices

  "Obama's new slogan: 'Yes we did!'" by Carol E. Lee, www.politico.com. July 08, 2010.

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• Donald Trump loves America. He wants it to be the greatest place on earth. He thinks political people have made it the mess that it is. And he's been very open and up front about how he goes about accomplishing things, and that's totally ignored.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Political

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The vast majority of unfaithful people are experiencing a conflict between their values and their behavior, and that is the mess of infidelity. It's not an either-or. The idea that you would ask, "How can you say you love your husband and you want to stay married, and you also are having an affair?" Because we are not the same woman, or the same man. Because sexual revolutions don't take place at home. Because for most of us, freedom wasn't something that we experienced in our family, but usually outside of our family.

  Esther Perel

  Husband, Love You, Home

  Source: wbur.org

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• I want to expand the question of when something is done. I want to vex the ending. I want to mess around with that. I like the idea that if you make a work that has no clear ending, then you must play with the ending. Because if you don't, you're not highlighting the weird, lovely openness of abstraction.

  Amy Sillman

  Lovely, Done, Openness

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• There are some things that you can always bet on. One is that when Congress comes up with a new program it never works right over the long haul. Another is, when Congress goes to fix the mess it has made the mess only gets worse.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Long, Program, Made

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• Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.

  Mark Steel

  People, Puddles, Fetch

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• You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. I am satisfied that a scholar who tries to combine these parts sells his birthright for a mess of pottage; that, when the final count is made, it will be found that the impairment of his powers far outweighs any possible contribution to the causes he has espoused.

  Learned Hand

  Voice, Doubt, Mind

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• No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.

  Anthony de Mello

  Hurt, Self, Opposites

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.79, Image

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• You can bet everything will come to an end. It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess, and it's going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.

  Frank Zappa

  Names, Ugly, Ends

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• These are the things I learned: share everything, play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw some and paint and sing and dance and play and work some every day. Take a nap every afternoon, and, when you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hurt, Sorry, Thinking

  Robert Fulghum, “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten”

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• Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.

  Alice Walker

  Stuff, God Love, Pleasing God

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• You don't need cocaine! There's another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it's called marathon running!

  Robin Williams

  Running, Real, Mind

  "Robin Williams: Live at the Met". Documentary, www.imdb.com. October 11, 1986.

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• My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Song, Writing, Past

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

  Beth Orton

  Guitar, Feelings, Melody

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A charging black rhinoceros is nothing to mess with. When it is headed straight toward you, it is the ultimate exercise in sphincter control. In my case, it was a strange bit of weather that caused one to charge me.

  Boyd Norton

  Exercise, Weather, Black

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