Screws Quotes - Page 20

• Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

  Gary W. Keller

  Opportunity, Screw Ups, Multitasking

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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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• You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.

  Jake Roberts

  Screw Ups, Embarrassing, Rings

  "Jake "The Snake" Roberts Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.

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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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• Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean. All the guys they are giving these marketing endorsement deals are the ones going out there getting in trouble. That is what is really puzzling to me. They will take a chance on the so call good image guy and they are the ones that go out there and screw it all up. You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.

  Terrell Owens

  Giving, Guy, Marketing

  "T.O. with Terrell Owens". Interview with Victor Kelly, ca.ign.com. July 8, 2004.

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• We’re every age at once and tucked inside ourselves like Russian nesting dolls. My mother is an 8 year old girl. My grandson is a 74 year old retiree whose kidneys just failed. And that’s the glue between me and you. That’s the screws and nails. We live in a house made of each other and if that sounds strange that’s because it is.

  George Watsky

  Girl, Mother, Years

  Song: Tiny Glowing Screens, Part 2, Album: Cardboard Castles, 2013

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Because they've either conveniently forgotten with time or they're trying to be supportive, most mothers won't tell you how hard pregnancy (and then childbirth) can be. Let me tell you, it is. It's brutal sometimes! But, if I did it, ANYONE can do it. I mean, I always knew I was meant to do something really BIG in life, and now I know that this was it. Screw winning an Academy Award someday ... I GAVE BIRTH

  Jenny McCarthy

  Mother, Pregnancy, Mean

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• It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're going to screw it up and you're going to make a mistake.

  Pat Benatar

  Mistake, Parent, Matter

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• King's an equal opportunity dirtbag, he screws everybody.

  Michael Spinks

  Kings, Opportunity, Boxing

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• All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop books. And the other thing they said was, 'You have to confront the oppressor.' I understand that. But you don't have to look at the world through his eyes. I'm not a stereotype; I'm not somebody else's version of who I am. And so when people said at that time black is beautiful – yeah? Of course. Who said it wasn't? So I was trying to say, in The Bluest Eye, wait a minute. Guys. There was a time when black wasn't beautiful. And you hurt.

  Toni Morrison

  Beautiful, Hurt, Book

  "Toni Morrison: 'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness'". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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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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• The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.

  Daniel Baldwin

  Lying, Screw You, Kind

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

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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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• This company looks cheap, that company looks cheap, but the overall economy could completely screw it up. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

  David Tepper

  Keys, Waiting, Looks

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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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• You would open a drawer, which my father had jammed full of newspapers, and the bottom would drop out. There were buttons and screws and nails and bottle caps and jar lids – the drawer of jar lids! Why? Because they're made of metal and maybe there'll be another war and we'll need the metal. A friend of mine – I quote him in the book – says, 'You have found the source of the river eBay.'

  Roz Chast

  Father, War, Book

  " Life drawing to a close: my parents' final year" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2014.

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• This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.

  Paul Castellano

  Hey, Way, Wonderful

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

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