Messed Up Quotes

• If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Drunk

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• I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Music, Beautiful, Life Is Like

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• You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Trying, Please, Please Yourself

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• As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Games, Careers, May

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• I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

  Will Smith

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.

  Story Musgrave

  Years, Three, World

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

  Jena Malone

  Youth, Graduates, Realizing

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• I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Mean, People, Comedian

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.

  Camilo Villegas

  Believe, Mean, Starting Over

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• What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.

  Debi Thomas

  Motivational, Moving, Athlete

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• I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'

  Mary J. Blige

  Fun, Men, Needs

  "Singer-songwriter Mary J. Blige". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 14, 2013.

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• Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.

  Mary J. Blige

  Pain, Perfect, Example

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• My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

  Denzel Washington

  Mother, Home, School

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• Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.

  Bam Margera

  People, Way, Plenty

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• I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Dear Lord, People

  "'Like a puppy in a Christmas stocking'". Interview With Susan Olasky, world.wng.org. September 20, 2003.

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• I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

  Doris Lessing

  Mother, War, Writing

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• It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good

  Cab Calloway

  Done, Opera, Blame

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• In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Sex, School, Responsibility

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• There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.

  Marlon Wayans

  Gay, Men, White

  Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'

  Mischa Barton

  People, Problem, Accepted

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• Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.

  Veronica Roth

  Depressing, Mean, Thinking

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• No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, 'I screwed up so bad. I'm sorry, I messed up.' It's just a real common feeling.

  Mike Mills

  Sorry, Real, Thinking

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• I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Girl, Thinking, Interesting

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• Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

  Nas

  New York, Attitude, War

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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