Screws Quotes

• I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

  Kim Basinger

  Two, People, Intuition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

  James Ellroy

  Crime, Knows

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• Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

  Judd Nelson

  Fall, Imperfect World, Breakfast

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• If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.

  Lee Iacocca

  Procrastination, Starting Over, Trying

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• Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

  James Hillman

  Happiness, Being Happy, Thinking

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

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• If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.

  Pete Rose

  Lying, Screw Ups, Clean

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• We fail!
  But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
  And we'll not fail.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Encouraging, Courage

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 54

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• No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

  A. J. McLean

  Virgins

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• Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

  Arianna Huffington

  Women, Failure, Successful

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

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• So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

  Lee Iacocca

  Moving On, Procrastination, Long

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• If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

  Lee Iacocca

  Procrastination, Starting Over, Waiting

  "Stop procrastinating in 3 minutes with one simple question" by Chris Winfield, www.businessinsider.com. February 23, 2015.

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• I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

  George Carlin

  Religious, Atheist, Ideas

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

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• Multi-tasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Ability, Multi Tasking

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• We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

  Uta Hagen

  Host, Hostesses

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• I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.

  Bode Miller

  Mistake, Thinking, Challenges

  "Bad boy bode". Interview with Bill Saporito, James Graff, Helen Scott-Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2006.

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• No one dies a virgin, Life screws us all

  Daniel Tosh

  Virgins, Dies

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• I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me.

  Lisa McMann

  Long, Trying, Screw Ups

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone on the bus can laugh at me, and I'll be like, 'Screw you guys: I look good!'

  Amy Lee

  Laughing, Guy, Looks

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• I think Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Screw it. Cut 'em up!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

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• Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility - I wouldn't want to screw them up! We love our animals.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Responsibility, Animal, Thinking

  "Ellen on Life, Love and Laughter!" by Ellen Degeneres and Elizabeth Leonard, people.com. March 03, 2014.

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• To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

  Joan Didion

  Running, Lying, Home

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 14, 2011

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• Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up

  Heather Brewer

  Hearing

  Heather Brewer (2011). “Twelfth Grade Kills #5: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.47, Penguin

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• I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

  Robyn Davidson

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

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• Screw you and your 38,000 twitter followers!

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Followers, Screw You

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• Public agency is emergent, and the ability of the public to literally put any bank or corporation out of business overnight is looming. To paraphrase Abe Lincoln, you cannot screw all of the people all of the time. We're there. All we lack is a major precipitant – our Tunisian fruit seller. When it happens the revolution will be deep and lasting.

  Robert David Steele

  Agency, People, Corporations

  "The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy". Interview with Nafeez Ahmed, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2014.

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