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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Truth, Past, Stories

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.208, Random House

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• I had a dual goal in my running that was to win and to achieve excellence, so I was never happy with a slow tactical time. If the race were slow I would get in front and pull it up again. I couldn't stand a slow race. A lot of people seem to get screwed up on tactics. There is only one tactic in a race and that is to always be in a position where you can win it.

  Herb Elliott

  Motivational, Running, Winning

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• They're trying to say that greater federal authority would have made a difference, ... The reality is that the feds are the ones that screwed up in the first place. It's not about authority. It's about leadership. ... They've got all the authority already.

  George Haddow

  Reality, Differences, Trying

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• You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you.

  Michael Jordan

  Stupid, Play, Teammate

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• Listen cousin, the way things are supposed to work out, one day the struggles of all you screwed up little underdogs will forge a permanent rainbow that'll encircle this entire earth, I should live so long.

  John Nichol

  Cousin, Struggle, Long

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• You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up.

  Alex Bogusky

  Culture, Fearful

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• Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.

  Steve Coogan

  Mother, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 20, 2008.

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• Sometimes I train in the middle of the night, all on my own. Can't sleep, don't want to sleep, get up, go to the gym, work. This is early for me, being here at half ten in the morning, this is really early, and I'm only here because I screwed up yesterday and kept you hanging around. Other times I'll call up my wrestling coach, or my jiu jitsu coach, or my deep-tissue guy, and want to really focus on one part of what I do. I train in all these different disciplines.

  Conor McGregor

  Morning, Sleep, Wrestling

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.

  Jim Hodges

  Thinking, Color, People

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• I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs--which shows how screwed up this world really is!

  Beatrice Sparks

  Drug, Pills, World

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• That’s what makes a character interesting from an actor’s perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

  Jeri Ryan

  Character, Interesting, Perspective

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Thank God for Jerry Springer's show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Black, Thank God

  Charles Barkley (2002). “I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It”, p.107, Random House

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• We're putting all of our energy into making it right. And we have already had several software updates. We've got a huge plan to make it even better. It will get better and better over time. We screwed up. That's the fact.

  Tim Cook

  Technology, Get Better, Energy

  "Google Maps App for iPhone Released With Turn-by-Turn Navigation, Transit Directions and Street View" by Joanna Stern, abcnews.go.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Foosball screwed up my perception of soccer. I though you had to kick the ball and then spin around and around. I can't do a back flip, much less several simultaneously with two other guys.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Soccer, Two, Guy

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• You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed jacket of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children and dogs.

  Helen Thompson Woolley

  Dog, Horse, Children

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