Screwed Up Quotes

• I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

  Bruce Sterling

  Literature, Today, Students

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• You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

  Don Van Vliet

  Umpires, Judging, House

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• My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Garbage Disposal

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

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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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• If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

  Eric Bogosian

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

  Albert Ellis

  Thinking, Unfair, Human Condition

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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, Screw Ups

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• It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.

  George Burns

  Running, Cutting, Hair

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• When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Trying Different Things, Play, Notes

  "'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott: A Larger-than-life Guitarist And Human Being" by Jon Wiederhorn, www.mtv.com. December 9, 2004.

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• I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Typical

  "The Legend Of Bob Metcalfe" by Scott Kirsner, www.wired.com. November 01, 1998.

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• Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Awakening, Strange

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• Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Perception

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• No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all. It's the only reason people have heard of me. It's only been a huge, huge, very fortunate bonus.

  Dominic West

  Thinking, Careers, Wire

  "People seem to think I'm Satan". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.

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• Some of the funniest people I know are not screwed up in the head.

  Darrell Hammond

  People, Knows

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• I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.

  Jenny Lawson

  Facts, Realizing, Internet

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• I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault.

  Gore Verbinski

  Thinking, People, Faults

  "‘Rango’ Director Gore Verbinski Reveals The Top Ten Inspirations Of His Oscar-Contending Animated Feature Film" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. February 13, 2012.

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• I believe that no matter how many mistakes we’ve made; how badly we’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected we’ve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.

  Dave Pelzer

  Mistake, Believe, Ambition

  Dave Pelzer (2010). “Moving Forward: Taking The Lead In Your Life”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject, existential subjects or romantic subjects, you never learn anything. So you make a fool of yourself when you're 20, you make a fool of yourself at 40, at 60 at 80. The ancient Greeks were dealing with these problems. They screwed up all the time. People do now.

  Woody Allen

  Real, People, Greek

  "Woody Allen Interview To Rome With Love". "MoviesOnline" Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 9, 2017.

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• I always felt better co-writing something - always co-writing. Because if I was the lead of it and it failed, then it failed on my own accord. I would say, "Well, I liked it or I screwed up. I take the hit on this one."

  Bill Hader

  Writing, Accord, Wells

  Source: deadline.com

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• The way I understood purgatory - and maybe you've got a different version - but in Chicago in the '70s, the idea was it was like detention. You had screwed up and you go over there in purgatory and you sit there until the end of days and then we'll decide. You'd made your mistake, and you were in prison, and it's not terrible and it's not great, and you feel a little crappy because you were not in the presence of God.

  George Saunders

  Mistake, Ideas, The End Of The Day

  Interview With Jenny Shank, www.patheos.com. March 6, 2017.

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• People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.

  Gillian Flynn

  Book, Character, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

  Antony Starr

  "Antony Starr Talks BANSHEE, Comparing Season 1 to Season 2, Tough Shoots, Finding the Right Time to Provide Backstory, and Character Relationships". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 21, 2014.

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• I pride myself on being down-to-earth. I’m from the Midwest. People who go into show business are screwed up. I romanticized about having a serene life.

  Craig Kilborn

  People, Shows, Show Business

  "What ever happened to Craig Kilborn?". Interview with Clark Collis, ew.com. June 25, 2010.

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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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• Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, People, Broken

  "'Every single thing I know, as of today': Author Anne Lamott shares life wisdom in viral Facebook post" by Erin Clements, www.today.com. April 10, 2015.

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