Screws Quotes - Page 19

• Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.

  Erma Bombeck

  Christmas, Dog, Children

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• To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

  Henry Spencer

  Design, Politics, Committees

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• There is nothing worse than having an enemy who is a total loser. It's incredibly frustrating when seeking revenge against one, because you come to the realization that there is really nothing you can do to make the person's life worse than it already is. They have nothing to take; there is no way to screw them over if you have been their victim. It's maddening.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Revenge, Sunset, Frustration

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• One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.

  Stephen Burt

  Long, Choices, Waiting

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• I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way.

  John Riccitiello

  Real, Cutting, Government

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• Where I come from, family’s defined as those who don’t screw you over a pay check. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they’ll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they’re your family.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Rain, Blood, Differences

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Born Of Shadows: Number 4 in series”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

  Caitlin Moran

  Thinking, Screw Ups, Paradise

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• General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

  Marvin Minsky

  People, Fiction, Way

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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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• Prabhupada said, “Whatever service one does for Krishna, Krishna never forgets! Krishna will always remembers that service, however insignificant. Even if he comes to the temple and he turns one screw for Krishna, Krishna will never forget.”

  Romapada Swami

  Temples, Doe, Remember

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• Screw it, let's do it - Just get on with it and do it

  Richard Branson

  Self Improvement, Improvement

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• If someone says tennis is not feminine, I say screw it.

  Rosemary Casals

  Tennis, Feminine, Ifs

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• When you become a top player, you think that nothing else and nobody else matters. You can tell everybody on earth, 'Listen, I'm playing tennis, I don't have time for you. I'm in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, screw everybody and everything else.'

  Mats Wilander

  Player, Thinking, Tennis

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• We create the government that screws you, and then you're supposed to thank us for protecting you from it.

  Vin Weber

  Government, Screw You, Thank U

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• Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.

  Jandy Nelson

  Falling In Love, Grieving, Self

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• I hate when counselors and teachers blame everything on low self-esteem in teens. Some of us actually have self-esteem, believe it or not. And when we make mistakes, it's not because of a defect in our psyche. We screw up just because.

  Niki Burnham

  Teacher, Hate, Mistake

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• It’s not really the love that I envy, it’s the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can’t not love you.

  Cassia Leo

  Love You, Envy, Feelings

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• We're all in this together. It's okay to be honest. It's okay to ask for help. It's okay to say you're stuck, or that you're haunted or that you can't begin to let go. We can all relate to those things. Screw the stigma that says otherwise. Break the silence and break the cycle, for you are more than just your pain. You are not alone. And people need other people.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Letting Go, Pain, People

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.103, Penguin

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• I do a lot of weird movies that maybe you don't like and I experiment a lot but maybe I do appreciate the process and I think my greatest joy in this business is that I have had the ability to screw up in a lot of really interesting films!

  Josh Hartnett

  Thinking, Appreciate, Interesting

  "Interview: Josh Hartnett Talks 30 Days Of Night". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 1, 2007.

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• I don't care about people who don't care about me. If people are negative or mean, then that's their issue. Screw them.

  Paris Hilton

  Mean, Issues, People

  "Catching up with Paris Hilton". Interview with Jade Taylor, www.nylon.com. April 22, 2015.

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• I have a friend who is a juggler. If I'm at his house, I don't like to take food from him, if it's in threes. He has three apples left, I guess I can't have one. I wouldn't want to screw up his practice routine.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Practice

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• I wrote a script, and I gave it to a guy who reads scripts, and he read it, and he liked it, but he said he thinks I ought to re-write it. I said, "Fuck that - I'll just make a copy!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Comedy Central Presents (Mitch Hedberg)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. January 5, 1999.

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• That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognising that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?

  Emily Maguire

  Sex, Loneliness, Together

  Emily Maguire (2009). “Taming the Beast”, p.85, Picador Australia

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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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• The thing I like so much about short stories is that there isn't as much of an investment of time so I'm free to experiment more. If it doesn't work out, I've only lost a week or two of work. If I screw up a novel I've lost at least a year's worth of work. But the nice thing is that those experiments with short stories can be carried over to novels when the experiments do work.

  Charles de Lint

  Nice, Years, Two

  "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Charles de Lint". Interview with Charles Tan, www.sfsignal.com. September 9, 2010.

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