Mess Quotes - Page 35

• On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.

  Patsy Kensit

  Marriage, Breakup, Life Is

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• The downfall of the industry is that there is a lot of pressure in it, a lot of rejection in it and a lot of competition in it. It's a whole mess.

  Mila Kunis

  Rejection, Competition, Pressure

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• I had the perfect accident for the perfect idea. I was rendered immobile where the only thing I could do is mess with my computer.

  Harry Knowles

  Ideas, Perfect, Computer

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• As far as I'm concerned, the sheriff's department has done an excellent job in Savoy. The department has responded to the needs of our citizens, so I don't want to mess with a system that is working well for us.

  Bill Smith

  Jobs, Excellence, Needs

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• Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!

  Walter J. Phillips

  Photography, Blue, Sky

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• We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up your cultivation by adding other things.

  Li Hongzhi

  Teaching, Practice, Matter

  Li Hongzhi, Hongzhi Li (2001). “Zhuan Falun: The Complete Teachings of Falun Gong”, Fair Winds Press

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• Honey, what happened to "ladies first"? Husband replies, "That's the reason why the worlds a mess today, because a lady went first!"

  David Letterman

  Marriage, Husband, World

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• I predict the future of this earthly human race is that having made a mess of Earth they'll move to outer space.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Moving, Future, Space

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• Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don't mess with him.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Directors, Tough

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I don't really feel famous. I'm just an internet guy. I walk down the street and people don't really mess with me too much. I still have my life.

  Danny Brown

  People, Guy, Too Much

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess. A half-good sex scene is not half as hot; it actually moves into the negative numbers, draining any heat from the surrounding material.

  Sandra Newman

  Cute, Sex, Moving

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• Abbott is a good man to fix up messes and make new policy work ... If he gets it right - and Howard will back him with big bucks - Abbott could clean-up his image and restore his appeal as a future leader.

  Margo Kingston

  Men, Leader, Good Man

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• Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect mix: the characters make the war, and the war unmakes the characters. The gods, fates, furies had a relatively small hand in it. The mess was man-made, a synthetic, by think tank out of briefing session.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  War, Character, Fate

  "The Good Word & Other Words" by Wilfrid Sheed, Penguin, (pp. 107-108), 1980.

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• It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

  Donal Logue

  Eye, Feelings, Nerves

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Needs, World, Villain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing - pencil is more my medium than wet paint.

  Cy Twombly

  Hands, Oil, Use

  "I work in waves". Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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• I wanted to see how fast you can go before it becomes nonsensical, a mess.

  Chris Cunningham

  Movement, Nonsensical, Wanted

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• Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp.

  Roger Ebert

  Fall, Color, Entertainment

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.241, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

  Pat Paulsen

  President, Knows

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• Most people, if they're doing really well in their career, often don't have the right intimacy with their partner, or they're doing great in their home life, but their finances are a mess.

  Tony Robbins

  Home, Careers, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.

  Tony Robbins

  Personality, Intense, Violent

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

  Jessica Chastain

  Doe, You Again, Ifs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's my job to turn my mess [life] into a message and never regret a day of my life.

  Karrine Steffans

  Jobs, Regret, Messages

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Economists and financial analysts are not like steelworkers or people in other occupations. They don't get evaluated based on their performance. They can mess up every day of the week through their whole careers, and this would be just fine, as long as they messed up in the same way as their peers.

  Dean Baker

  Long, People, Financial

  "Q&A with Housing Bubble Forecaster Dean Baker". Interview with Leo W. Gerard, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Dna, History, Focus

  A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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