Screws Quotes - Page 8

• I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, Oh please, get a room.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Tears, Screw Ups, Rooms

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• I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

  Morley Safer

  Thinking, Personality, Littles

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• If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Years, Other Worlds, Nasa

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• Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Political, Screw Ups

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.133, Crown Forum

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• But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isn’t free at all. So screw that.

  Mark Steyn

  Reality, Government, Lines

  Mark Steyn (2014). “The Undocumented Mark Steyn”, p.370, Regnery Publishing

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• ... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

  Robben Ford

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights as soon as it get duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, and squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Eye, Squirrels

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.201, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

  Bob Lemon

  Baseball, Kids, Law

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• What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing so we just didn't want to screw that up.

  Bartlett Sher

  Voice, Want, Cherish

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• The resources you happen to accumulate, what do you do with them? You can spend the money and buy some houses or whatever, and people do some of that and that's fine. You can give the money to other people, your family, but usually when you do that you screw them up and it ends up counterproductive. Or, you take those resources and reinvest them in things that you believe in, and that could be reinvesting in a philanthropic cause.

  Steve Case

  Believe, People, Giving

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• What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.

  Stephen Dunn

  Music, Lying, Taken

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• I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  People, Stuff Happens, World

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• There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

  Jeff Abbott

  Jobs, Stupid, Rams

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• Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!

  Richard M. Nixon

  Sides, Hell, States

  Foreign Relations of the United States 1969-1976, Volume E-5, Part 1, Documents on Sub-Saharan Africa 1969-1972, Document 258: Conversation Between President Nixon and the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Camp David, history.state.gov. September 24, 1972.

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• Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

  Jimmy Wales

  Enough Time, Wikipedia, Screw Ups

  "Deconstructing Wikipedia at the Berkman Center". www.cnet.com. May 15, 2008.

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• People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  People, Television, Want

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

  Anton Chekhov

  Two, Judging, First Impression

  "Ivanov". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history. Atticus O'Sullivan

  Kevin Hearne

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• Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?

  Martin Amis

  Wine, Quality, Percent

  Martin Amis (2013). “The Pregnant Widow”, p.459, Random House

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• Screw the Silent Brothers." "No thanks. There's strong and silent, and then there's just freaky." "Isabelle!

  Cassandra Clare

  Strong, Brother, Thanks

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.501, Simon and Schuster

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• I have to tell you, Arty, a screw up this early in the proceedings doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. I hope you're as clever as you keep telling everyone you are." "I never tell anybody exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.

  Eoin Colfer

  Clever, Would Be, Screw Ups

  Eoin Colfer (2005). “Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Book #3”, Miramax

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• Nothing screws up a séance like the appearance of a real ghost. ~Jaime Vegas

  Kelley Armstrong

  Real, Vegas, Screw Ups

  Kelley Armstrong (2016). “Otherworld Secrets: An Anthology”, p.183, Penguin

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• We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.

  Richelle Mead

  Mistake, Cutting, People

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.121, Penguin

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• The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're all happy to screw each other over. It's enough to make me wonder if we should have let the zombies win.

  Mira Grant

  Winning, Should Have, Zombie

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• If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Past, Screw Ups, Rest Of Your Life

  Twitter post from Sep 30, 2014

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