Screwed Up Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, Nice, Character

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• It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

  Jon McGregor

  Creativity, Years, People

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• I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

  James McGreevey

  Different, Life Living, Integrated

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• Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.

  Anne Lamott

  Daughter, Children, Thinking

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• Who was it in Afghanistan who screwed up in Tora Bora and let bin Laden escape? It was the Bush Administration. Who leached all the resources, military and civil, from Afghanistan, creating the instability that we see there today in order to prepare for the misbegotten invasion of Iraq? It was the Bush administration. If there's a terrorist problem today, who is responsible now? Bush has not done the job.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Jobs, Military, Iraq

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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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• Mistakes don't scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I've really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it's just as important to know what doesn't work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.

  Garth Brooks

  Mistake, Thinking, Games

  "Locked and Loaded". Interview with Kevin Freiberg, www.freibergs.com.

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• If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we're not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don't deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Intelligent, Opportunity, Stupidity

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• All of my friends were seeing a therapist, and I thought something was wrong with me that I didn't see a therapist. So I went to a therapist to find out why I wasn't seeing a therapist. And it turns out I'm very screwed up. Thank God I found a therapist to tell me for $125 an hour.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Thank God, Hours, Therapists

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• We're so screwed up with our principles. We used to mock Japanese game shows where they ate bugs. Now we're doing the same, if not worse. It's terrifying... It seems the better the quality, the more you're penalised... There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it. They put fame ahead of talent and think someone from 'EastEnders' will put bums on seats.

  Philip Glenister

  Running, Thinking, Games

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

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• I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him. When I write, that takes over and I can't do anything else. There's something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up. I've lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.

  Adam Rapp

  Dog, Fall, Writing

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• I think that if someone plays a video game, and then goes out and harms another human being, or themselves because of what they just saw in the video game, they were screwed up in the head long before they got their hands on a controller.

  Tim Buckley

  Thinking, Hands, Games

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• Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, Personality, Disorder

  "The South Bank Show", 2007.

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• Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?

  Ingrid Weir

  Life, Past, Today

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• I'd like the campaigning to be about all the things they're not going to do. Just tell me what you're not going do! Don't tell me what you're going to do. Just say "I'd really like to do solar energy but I'm not going to be able to. I really want to dig holes everywhere in the country but I really won't be able to do it because people seem to think that maybe my water will be screwed up."

  Lewis Black

  Country, Thinking, Water

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• We, in America, are so screwed up when it comes to sex. That's all we can see.

  William H. Macy

  Sex, America

  Source: collider.com

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