Screw Ups Quotes - Page 4

• We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Funny, Parenting

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.

  Rick Yancey

  Fall, Important, Might

  Richard Yancey, Rick Yancey (2005). “The extraordinary adventures of Alfred Kropp”

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• People who are chronically tardy never understand the many ways in which they screw up the schedules of people who are punctual and 'normal'.

  Lauren Kate

  People, Schedules, Way

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.95, Delacorte Press

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• We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.

  Richelle Mead

  Mistake, Cutting, People

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.121, Penguin

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• You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.

  Jake Roberts

  Embarrassing, Rings, Screws

  "Jake "The Snake" Roberts Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.

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• You’ve claimed me, little firecracker. You kicked a pair of two hundred pound men’s asses. I will never get over that. You kicked my whores out. Pete told me. You staked your claim on me, even before you realized I’d staked mine already.” He fists my hair and pulls me close to his lips. “I’m yours now … Even if I screw this up, I’ll still be your screw-up.

  Katy Evans

  Men, Hair, Two

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• I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

  Susane Colasanti

  Karma, Revenge, Want

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.124, Penguin

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• Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.

  David Walker

  Fishing, Get Better, Way

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• At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

  Viola Davis

  Wall, People, Giving

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will make good decisions because people will give you good information, and if you are truthful to everybody, they will be truthful to you." That's what's different about Google. They screw up and make mistakes, but they genuinely mean the good stuff about "don't be evil."

  Larry Brilliant

  Integrity, Mistake, Mean

  "Feeling Lucky". Interview with Evan Ratliff, www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

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• If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

  Winston Groom

  Growing Up, Young, Harder

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• Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Writing, Intelligent, People

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• Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.

  George Clooney

  Jobs, Actors, Way

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• I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.

  George Eads

  Thinking, People, Would Be

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

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• I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, Oh please, get a room.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Tears, Rooms, Faces

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• What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.

  Stephen Dunn

  Music, Lying, Taken

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• Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Political, Bigs

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.133, Crown Forum

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• I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. Up until my first book was published I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: No, I didn't screw up.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Book, People, Mind

  "Zen and the art of Robert Pirsig". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.

  Vinod Khosla

  Use, Investment, Screws

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• I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

  Joe Perry

  Real, Night, Stuff

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  No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.

  Will Ferrell

  Matter, Screws

  The Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. December 3, 2010.

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• I hate when counselors and teachers blame everything on low self-esteem in teens. Some of us actually have self-esteem, believe it or not. And when we make mistakes, it's not because of a defect in our psyche. We screw up just because.

  Niki Burnham

  Teacher, Hate, Mistake

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• It’s not really the love that I envy, it’s the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can’t not love you.

  Cassia Leo

  Love You, Envy, Feelings

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• Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

  Tom Peters

  Excellence, Mark, Screws

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• U.S. Government has said they are now going to go after the terrorist's electronic banking system. You know what they should do? They should transfer bin Laden's funds to my bank. They'd mess up his deposits, screw up his statement and nickel and dime him to death with service charges.

  Jay Leno

  Government, Dimes, Banking

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