Screwed Up Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Were really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way.

  Janet Evanovich

  Way

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Sizzling Sixteen”, p.171, Macmillan

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• In all the universe, your mother is the only thing that truly scares me, especially where you’re concerned. I don’t ever want to be on her dark side. (Adron) Ha ha. And need I remind you my mother wasn’t the one screaming at the pool when you got shoved in. (Devyn) Yeah, all right, so we both have screwed-up, irrational mothers. (Adron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Dark, Scare

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice: The League: Nemesis Rising”, p.5, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• Knowing Lissa missed me hurt almost more than if she'd completely written me off. I'd never wanted to hurt her. Even when I'd resented her for feeling like she was controlling my life, I'd never hated her. I loved her like a sister and couldn't stand the thought of her suffering now on my behalf. How had things gotten so screwed up between us?

  Richelle Mead

  Hurt, Knowing, Feelings

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.26, Penguin

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• By the way, you guys seriously screwed up just now. (Nero) We know. (They said in unison.) Yeah, well, what you don’t know is how grateful your girl is to you. I just thought you should know that you guys are a hero to her…and she thinks we’re all idiots. (Nero)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Grateful, Hero

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• Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full explanation. Different segments of the organism called John Terrance Kelly knew different parts of the whole story, but somehow they'd never all come together, leaving the separate fragments of what had ...once been a tough, smart, decisive and to blunder about in confusion - and despair! There was a happy thought.

  Tom Clancy

  Smart, Confusion, Leaving

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• All my movies got screwed up because of my personality.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Personality

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• People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

  Ned Vizzini

  Life, People, Perfect

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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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• Shane talking to Claire - "In this whole screwed up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," He whispered. "I love you, Claire

  Rachel Caine

  Love You, Talking, Towns

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• There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.

  Louis Sachar

  Strange Places, People, Special

  Louis Sachar (2010). “Small Steps”, p.235, A&C Black

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• A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

  Mariah Carey

  Women, Thinking, People

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

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• My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.

  Rachel Caine

  Dad, Journey, Maps

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• I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Real, School, Kids

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

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• I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.

  Jodie Foster

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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• Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.

  George Clooney

  Kids, Names, Guy

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