Screws Quotes - Page 3

• As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Office, Political

  Molly Ivins (1992). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, Vintage

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• Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.

  Mark Hoppus

  Umpires, Advocating, Yeah

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• I'd like to have a kid, but I'd probably get a Frank Sinatra Jr. instead of a Gilbert Gottfried Jr. I'd totally screw up like that.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Kids, Screw Ups, Frank

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• Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

  Patrick Duffy

  Fall, Good Luck, Hard Work

  "Patrick Duffy Is the Girl Next Door's Dad". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. February 3, 2006.

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• Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

  Danny DeVito

  Nuclear, Ems, Use

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• I have cellulite. I admit it. But sometimes I just say, 'Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini.'

  Cindy Crawford

  Bikinis, Sometimes, Cellulite

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• I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Luxury, Important Relationships

  "George Clooney on Fame, Failure & Success, Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’ and ‘Monuments Men’" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. November 23, 2012.

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• I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

  Sandra Bullock

  Teenage, Worry, Phases

  "Sandra Bullock: Congenial, but oh so ambitious" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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• It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

  Jeff Bridges

  Trying, Screw Ups, Kind

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November, 2011.

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• We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us, but we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

  Julian Assange

  People, Acting, Way

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

  Jaron Lanier

  People, Able, Economic

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• Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Thinking, People, Body

  "Ellen Pompeo In ‘Self’: Went Up To Size 26 Jeans While Pregnant". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

  Bob Lemon

  Funny, Baseball, Kids

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• I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up.

  Amy Ruley

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Growing Up, Party, Believe

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• My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Home, Long

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• Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

  Chris Hardwick

  Philosophy, Thinking, Interesting

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• I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Screw Ups, Done, Want

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• A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

  Earl Weaver

  Jobs, Smart, Simple

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• If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.

  Linus Torvalds

  Hate, Want, Ends

  "Mr Linux basks in the limelight". BBC World ClickOnline Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. October 5, 2002.

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• Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

  Jake Roberts

  Good Day, Screw Ups, Start The Day

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

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• Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Screw Ups, Cameras, Intimidating

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

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• The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what’s No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don’t eat hamburgers.

  Maggie Q

  Thinking, Years, Meat Industry

  "‘Nikita’ Star Maggie Q On What’s Ahead In Season 3 And Her New PETA Campaign". Interview with Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2013.

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• For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, Nice, Character

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• I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

  Kirstie Alley

  Believe, Eating Disorder, Screw Ups

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