Messy Quotes - Page 6

• Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

  Nate Berkus

  Baseball, Mother, Years

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• Having all those demons makes it interesting, for me. Coming back now and being completely sober is okay, but I do like going back into the messy area. It's an empowering thing to play now, but at the same time, I do like to play the dirty side more. So, we'll see if she slips, or something. Wendy is always on the edge.

  Drea de Matteo

  Dirty, Play, Interesting

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• If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human being may a very messy thing, but to be an artist is something else entirely, because art is religion, art is sex, art is society. Art is everything.

  Lucas Samaras

  Art, Sex, Giving Up

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• Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the dubious exhilaration of grand philosophical theory, in which messy reality is tamed and caged, but the thrill of seeing pretension punctured by a kind of high-voltage common sense (backed up by impressive erudition). . . . There is no one in philosophy quite like him.

  Colin McGinn

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Writing

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• Oh yeah, I'm definitely a tomboy! I love sports, hate dresses, don't own a single pair of high-heels, am not a fan of makeup, and I'm not afraid to get messy!

  Jennette McCurdy

  Sports, Hate, Makeup

  "SPOTLIGHT: Jennette McCurdy". Girls' Life Magazine Interview, www.girlslife.com. November 11, 2007.

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• I'd say I'm pretty messy. NOT dirty though - there's a difference. Messy people leave clothes on their bedroom floor... dirty people leave pizza boxes.

  Nikki Ferrell

  Dirty, Differences, Clothes

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• I trained as a painter, and I still love painting, but eventually I became aware that the physical aspect of painting didn't really suit me. I didn't enjoy working in the medium. It's very messy. I prefer to have it clean, with a nice computer.

  Loretta Lux

  Nice, Suits, Painting

  "Loretta Lux's best shot". Interview with Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

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• I'm not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child.

  Bryan Cranston

  Children, Crazy, Emotional

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• I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Sex, Silly

  Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.238, Open Road Media

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• The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life. It's between the essence of fundamentalism - paternalism, authority, and charity - and the messy imperatives of democracy, "the din of the vox populi" once derided by Abram Vereide. It's the difference between false unity, preached from above, and real solidarity, pledged between brothers and sisters - the kinds who are always bickering.

  Jeff Sharlet

  Brother, Real, Essence

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• I've never met a couple yet who, when they were walking down the aisle, said, 'What we want is three years of happiness, two years of [torment], a messy divorce and 15 years of fighting over custody of the kids.'

  Wade Horn

  Couple, Kids, Divorce

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• I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Hair, Black, Looks

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• In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story.

  Harold L. Vogel

  Reality, Top Management, Different

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• Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.

  Ben Yagoda

  Children, Effectiveness, Order

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• We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.

  Henry Bromell

  Life, Pain, Heart

  "Northern Exposure". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1990 - 1995.

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• Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

  Courtney Love

  Song, Secret, Needs

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• my parents ... had decided early on that all of the problems in my family had somehow to do with me. All roads led to Roseyville, a messy, chaotic town where, as parents, they were required to visit, but could never get out of quick enough or find a decent parking place.

  Roseanne Barr

  Parent, Towns, Blame

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• Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

  Armando Iannucci

  President, Ends, Term

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• When I get home I'll still have to unload the dishwasher and clean my room. Last night my mom got so fed up of my messy floor in my room she picked it all up off the floor and put it on my bed so I would have to clean it up before I went to bed!

  Stacie Orrico

  Mom, Home, Night

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

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• I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.

  Kiernan Shipka

  Hate, Freak, Closets

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

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• Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

  Spike Jonze

  Emotion, Figures, Hard

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• I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.

  William McNamara

  Lying, Humble, Reality

  William McNamara (1977). “Mystical passion: spirituality for a bored society”

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• In the play we have the messy he-loves-her, she-loves-him, she-loves-him-too structure, and, to add even more confusion to the mix, the real love story is between the two ladies.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  Real, Play, Two

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• Most professionals specialize in only part of the complex community revitalization process. Incomplete efforts usually create messy, expensive, demoralizing failures. Few specialists understand how to bring a place back to life with a holistic approach. If anyone understands the complete revitalization process, it's Storm Cunningham. He's spent over a decade rigorously studying successes and failures worldwide. He can look at a community, regional, or organizational regeneration or redevelopment process, and quickly spot what's wrong...what's missing.

  Lindsey Davis

  Effort, Community, Missing

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• In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and sovereign citizens, who have finally broken free of worshipping a ruling class and begun thinking for themselves. Democracy can seem frustrating and messy at times, but it delivers.

  David Brin

  Thinking, Self, Civilization

  David Brin, Matthew Woodring Stover (2013). “Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time”, p.48, BenBella Books, Inc.

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