Mess Quotes - Page 15

• Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Kids, Years

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• Anytime you're away from your home filming, it messes with your head.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Home

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• It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Mind, Impossible

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• This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Birthday, Hurt, Opportunity

  "Behind-the-Scenes with Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

  Loretta Lynn

  Talking, Cities, Trying

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.14, Vintage

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• I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

  Shirley Manson

  Weather, Mood, Contradictory

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• You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.

  Leighton Meester

  Lucky, Use, Lied

  "Leighton Meester: Drama Queen". Interview with Allison Glock, www.marieclaire.com. Mar 13, 2012.

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• It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

  Joyce Meyer

  Tired, Emotional, Upset

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• I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

  Joyce Meyer

  Childhood, Terrible

  "How Joyce Meyer Built a Worldwide Following". Interview with Cynthia McFadden and Mary Marsh, abcnews.go.com. April 13, 2010.

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• Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

  Joyce Meyer

  Years

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• It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.

  Sienna Miller

  Energy, Negative, Honest

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• There are a lot of people in Milwaukee who have had adverse impacts from Scott Walker. He's managed to mess over everyone in Milwaukee.

  Gwen Moore

  Impact, People, Milwaukee

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• A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.

  Bill Nye

  Years, Two, Half

  "Bill Nye the Science Guy on science and technology". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. September 15, 2000.

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• In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Iraq, President, Firsts

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• Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

  Ron Paul

  War, Party, Thinking

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

  Sean Penn

  Real, Love Is, People

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• The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?

  Richard Pryor

  Gone, Earth, Way

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• The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

  Susan Sarandon

  People, House, Forgiving

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. November 1, 2004.

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• I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.

  Jane Seymour

  Character, Wrinkles, Giving

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• The thing I want to really say is that I still mess up. I still go out there and say things on TV that I know the Lord is like, 'Sherri what are you doing?' but I know I can go back and get on my knees and say, 'Lord forgive me.' I know he will never leave me nor forsake me. The wonderful thing is He answers my prayers in spite of me.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Prayer, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

  Robert Smith

  Two, Black, Months

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• When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, People, House

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• But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.

  Stuart Symington

  Children, Marine, Army

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• But - but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you're going to mess up. That's what grace is for. We're going to fall, but we've got to get back up. And you've got to improve. And that's what I'm all about.

  Tim Tebow

  Fall, Grace, Way

  "Tim Tebow Discusses Faith and Football in the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. June 3, 2011.

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• I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Two, Mind, Balls

  "‘I’ve Got to Be Myself’: The Sachin Tendulkar Interview". Interview with Bobby Ghosh, keepingscore.blogs.time.com. May 9, 2012.

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