Messy Quotes - Page 8

• The parts of the [Civil Right] Movement we recognize so well now were not born from a single decision, but were a complicated and messy evolution of ideas and spirits, coming together after a long, hard struggle to triumph in moments when the odds seemed the longest.

  Andrew Aydin

  Struggle, Ideas, Odds

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I don't like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.

  Chinua Achebe

  Mistake, Typewriters, Perfect

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• Ministry is messy because sin is messy. Get over it, get a mop and start helping people clean up!

  Jud Wilhite

  People, Ministry, Helping

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• I've seen Leonardo Da Vinci notebooks which are filled with tiny, messy scrawls written in mirror image across the page. I'd love to know how he kept all his projects going at once.

  William Gurstelle

  Notebook, Mirrors, Pages

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• No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Should, Position, Privileged

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

  Bill Ayers

  Teaching, Community, Needs

  Source: www.smithmag.net

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• I think that relations between professors and grad students can be messy and not entirely boundable. Part of the problem is that those boundaries become eroticized. I don't think people are quite so managerial with their sexuality. By suggesting that sex can be successfully regulated, we're imposing stupidity on the issue.

  Laura Kipnis

  Sex, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Along the way, a lot of filmmakers get rid of things that are messy or don't fit in some ways. To me, I want to work with serendipity and things we happened upon. That's our job, that's what the form demands.

  Robert Greene

  Jobs, Serendipity, Way

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.

  Jodie Evans

  Excited, Forty

  Source: progressive.org

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• What's so great thing about clothes is that they're artificial - you can lie, you can choose the way you look, which is not true of natural beauty. So if you're naturally beautiful, wear what you want, but that's 01% of people. Most people just aren't good looking enough to wear what they have on. They should change. They should get some slacks and a nice overcoat. Remember when the style was incredibly messy hair? That's great if you're a model. But if you're not a model, you would look better if you washed your hair, because you are not beautiful.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Beautiful, Nice, Lying

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think Girls is so great, because versions of it are close to my own experience of moving to New York. It's a fun. You know - get to be messy and silly and irresponsible, but also wrap that up at the end of the day and be an adult. It's a fun time, but not necessarily one you want to stay in for too long.

  Andrew Rannells

  Girl, Fun, Silly

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The key thing in my becoming a writer was going on a Arvon Foundation residential writing course. I took with me a really messy twenty thousand words of something that later became After You'd Gone, my first novel. My tutors were Barbara Trapido and Elspeth Barker.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Writing, Novel, Tutor

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I also believe that upending ingrained ideas about what assault is a gun to the head, a stranger, a parking lot and what consent looks like a woman who gives a no really means yes is very messy. And part of the messiness is some students - and yes, usually these are liberal students - over-determining the definition of assault.

  Vanessa Grigoriadis

  Believe, Mean, Gun

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm a dirty kid, I like to be outside, I like to run about, I like to get messy. So I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, skating and just being a disaster.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Running, Dirty, Kids

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• Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.

  Rich Galen

  Democracy, Firsts, Election

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• I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little... it'll grow back!

  Ed Robertson

  Sex, Fun, Eye

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• For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

  Jodi Lynn Anderson

  Girl, Heart, Hair

  Jodi Lynn Anderson (2012). “Tiger Lily”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.

  Chad Harbach

  Art, Trying, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Life isn't perfect and that's the kind of world where Jesus showed up. He wasn't born in a palace on a perfect day. He was born in the middle of the night during tax season to an unwed couple in a stable or a cave in a sheep field. That was God's way of showing us that nothing is perfect. Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

  Louie Giglio

  Jesus, Couple, Night

  "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.

  Sherman Alexie

  Mean, Hands, Order

  "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.

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• The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for counting. I had begun to calculate a quantity on the assumption that the result was a real number, but found instead that, in certain units, all the possible answers would be integers. This meant that areas and volumes cannot take any value, but come in multiples of fixed units.

  Lee Smolin

  Notebook, Real, Numbers

  Lee Smolin (2008). “Three Roads To Quantum Gravity”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• To be creative, first I need to be really organized. If my apartment's messy I need to clean it. It's like before you start doing your homework or studying for a test, you have to have a clean room.

  Demetri Martin

  Creative, Needs, Tests

  Source: www.collegehumor.com

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• The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

  Daphne Koller

  Needs, World, Noise

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• To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world...Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we'll get there.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, Play, Accountability

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• Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.

  Alan Brennert

  Divorce, Ties, People

  Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i: A Novel”, p.382, St. Martin's Press

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