Screws Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

  Greg Egan

  Suffering, Quality, Screw Ups

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• Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

  Anthony Trollope

  Literature, Peg

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.739, e-artnow

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• I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

  Alfred Nobel

  Philosophy, Misanthrope, Idealist

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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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• I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.

  Jessica Hahn

  People, Admire, Right Thing

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• Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, 'If you don't like me, screw you.' If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye.

  Jonathan Bennett

  Eye, Guy, Black

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

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• C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

  Tom Christiansen

  Screw Ups, Excess, Computer

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• Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne

  John Wayne

  Corruption, Wayne, Masquerade

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• If you are going to focus on a teacher, you have to be focused on the teacher and not peripheral vibrations that might be around them or it will totally screw up your meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Focus, Meditation

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• Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot.

  Johnny Miller

  Fun, Golf, Mind

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  No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.

  Will Ferrell

  Screw Ups, Matter

  The Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. December 3, 2010.

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• Britain makes it absolutely, blindingly clear that it is liberal social welfare policies. And they have turned a good chunk of their native population into animals. They are absolute animals. They are not humans with free will. They eat, they screw, they drink.

  Ann Coulter

  Animal, Population, Free Will

  "Ann Coulter: Liberal Policies Led to U.K. Riots". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2011.

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• Now it's just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, 'What are you doing for your country?' you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Country, Elbows, Down And

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. July 24, 2011.

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• Wrestling and acting couldn't be anymore different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is implosion. One really screws up the other.

  Roddy Piper

  Wrestling, Acting, Different

  "Rowdy Roddy Piper Lends his Voce to Green Lantern: Emerald Knights". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. May 5, 2011.

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• The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

  Brené Brown

  Powerful, Teaching, Screw Ups

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• I'm finding that everything sells. I've been toying with the fact that I have this big giant glass jar with the metal screw lid on it that's full of ribbons and memorabilia from conventions and stuff. I've got buttons and I have all of my Walt Disney Mickey Mouse credit cards. I'm wondering in my old age if anyone would pay for a credit card with Mickey Mouse on it issued to me. I wonder if anyone would pay anything for that?

  Mike Royer

  Glasses, Age, Giants

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• You can be the smartest person in the world - which Bill Clinton is, and if he's not, his wife is - and care more than anybody else in the world - which he does, I don't doubt that for a minute. And you can care so much that you're willing to be dishonest - you can tell people one thing but do another because you really know it's for their own good. And you'll still screw it all up. Because the whole premise of what you're doing is wrong!

  Dave Barry

  Wife, People, Doubt

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• I have more respect for somebody who's like, 'Yeah I like to party, so screw off,' then for Tara , who talks about not partying and ends up passed out underneath a Subway, not a subway station, but the actual sandwich shop - two days later.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Party, Humor

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• How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! ...no eight!

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Eight

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• People love my honesty when it comes to parenting. I really struggled that I wasn't fitting in with the other moms at my kids' school and then one day I said screw it and became even more honest in my stand up and career. I still don't get invited to their parties but I have pretty fun life!

  Heather McDonald

  Mom, Honesty, Fun

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• Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.

  Jay Rayner

  Nice, Unique, Way

  Askmen Interview, uk.askmen.com.

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• I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

  Linus Torvalds

  Done, Want, Theory

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• There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

  Brandon Thomas

  Screw Ups, Chance, Very Good

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• I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.

  John Piper

  Sacrifice, Screw Ups, Longing

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.251, Multnomah

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