Mess Quotes - Page 8

• I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Letting Go, Thinking, Ideas

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• People in a state like Pennsylvania, especially in the middle of the state, as you say, want the focus on repairing the state. Pennsylvania is a mess in terms of infrastructure. They don`t want to blow up bridges over there. They want to build them here.

  Chris Matthews

  Blow, Bridges, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be - instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Kids, Romance, Feelings

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.38, Macmillan

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• Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

  Taylor Swift

  Appreciate, Waiting, Feels

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• I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.

  Bipasha Basu

  Demand, Oscars, Hollywood

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• Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Expression, Hot

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• I want to launch a globe into space just to mess with the astronauts.

  Demetri Martin

  Space, Want, Astronaut

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• Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's.

  Carol Leifer

  Airports, Over You, Lasts

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• The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene orderliness of imagined reality, give a special tense dazzle and an atmosphere of tour de force to any photographs that succeed in the search.

  Janet Malcolm

  Art, Reality, Odds

  Janet Malcolm (1997). “Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography”

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• You don't mess with janitors, first of all, they have like 40 keys, and 1 is to a closet you don't want to be inside of.

  Chelsea Handler

  Keys, Want, Firsts

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• For me, a breakup changed my entire life. I was a mess. I really got rocked, and I ended up turning it into a positive thing.

  Greg Behrendt

  Change, Breakup, Positive Things

  "You will survive: How to turn a breakup into a 'breakover'". Interview with Pamela Sitt, www.seattletimes.com. October 23, 2005.

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• When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.

  Ed Helms

  Real, Character, Confusing

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• It is so much better to get the right exposure than to have to mess around later with Photoshop.

  Peter Menzel

  Exposure, Photoshop

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• One great way to mess with devout Christians and atheists would be if Jesus came back and said, By the way, you know I'm fake, right?

  Dana Gould

  Christian, Jesus, Atheist

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Mar 26, 2012

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• Oh say, can you see, it's really such a mess. Every inch of earth is a fighting nest. Giant pencial and lipstick tube shaped things, continue to rain and cause scream and pain, and the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Pain, Rain, Fighting

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• Mindfulness creates centered awareness. When you do one thing at a time, you're guaranteed excellent results. If you do too many things simultaneously, it messes up your neural circuits. Focus on one thing at a time.

  Deepak Chopra

  Focus, Mindfulness, Awareness

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• I'm pretty far from the character I play, so it's fun to mess around and be a 15-year-old again.

  Nicholas Braun

  Fun, Character, Years

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I'll always have a totally open mind to endless possibilities. I want to do a dance album. Not Techno, but a record that's exclusively designed for people to dance to. That whole dance genre is kinda into its own world. I'd just like to get in there and mess around with that.

  Rob Halford

  Genre Is, People, Mind

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• I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly because I love music too much to mess it up.

  Elijah Wood

  Dream, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• You can't just mess with somebody's prescription, and I really like wearing glasses. It's my eyesight and I don't want to mess with that.

  Michelle Chamuel

  Glasses, Want, Eyesight

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but at the same time I'm looking at a whole layer of what goes into copyright law, who owns those memories, who owns the way that that sound gets remixed and transformed and above all how much fun it is to actually just mess with other people's stuff.

  DJ Spooky

  Fun, Memories, Law

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

  Anne Lamott

  Teacher, Mistake, People

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.11, Penguin

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• The trails are a reminder of our insignificance. We come and go, but nature is forever. It puts us in our place, underscoring that we are not lords of the universe but components of it...So when the world seems to be falling apart, when we humans seem to be creating messes everywhere we turn, maybe it's time to rejuvenate in the cathedral of the wilderness - and there, away from humanity, rediscover our own humanity.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Fall, Creating, Forever

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• The shutdown may have temporarily sidetracked the Republicans, yet Obamacare threatens much worse for the Democrats. By 2014 the former will be ancient history, while the latter will be an ongoing mess.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Obamacare, Ongoing, May

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• For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.

  Paul Auster

  Summer, New York, Writing

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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