Screwed Up Quotes - Page 6

• Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.

  Greg Norman

  Mistake, Golf, Work Out

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• Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. Screwed-up people start wars that could kill millions. Normal people settle fights through cookies, cakes, and pies. Normal people are fat.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophy, War, Philosophical

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

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• There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

  John Kricfalusi

  People, Talent

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.

  Mary Crosby

  Names, People, Parent

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• Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before they turn in a first draft. . . . each writer's process is screwed up in its own way.

  Warren Leight

  Self, Locks, Fever

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• Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Political, Intellectual, Materials

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.467, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

  Henry Mintzberg

  People, Healthy, Ordinary

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• I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

  John Lennon

  Girl, Dream, Women

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• If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.

  Oswald Chambers

  Son, Good Man, Problem

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• You should definitely have a travel agent. Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself, only to see the arrangements get all screwed up, when with just a single phone call you can have a trained professional screw them up for you?

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Agency, Phones

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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• My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

  Jessica Hahn

  Mother, Dad, Toilets

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• One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Fighting, White, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• This is so classic. Government comes along under the guise of fairness, fixes something, gonna make it fair, gonna make it equal, gonna make it affordable, maybe even make it free. What they end up doing is blowing it all to hell, screwing it up worse than it's ever been screwed up, then their voters bellyache and complain about it. And the same Democrats come back and demand that something be done, because their voters need a second chance.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Second Chance, Government, Done

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• Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.

  Anne Lamott

  Cake, Needs, World

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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