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• You don't need cocaine! There's another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it's called marathon running!

  Robin Williams

  Running, Real, Mind

  "Robin Williams: Live at the Met". Documentary, www.imdb.com. October 11, 1986.

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• God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.

  James MacDonald

  Want, Cleaning, Not Afraid

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• If you mess up the tiniest little thing in the Beethoven concerto, or the phrasing isn't just exactly perfectly executed, Beethoven brings out the worst in the best violinist. You almost never hear a satisfying performance, because it doesn't play itself.

  Joshua Bell

  Play, Littles, Little Things

  "Joshua Bell’s Virtuoso Reality". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2011.

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• I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you're trying to recreate something lifelike.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Real, Lying, Reading

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. 2010.

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• Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em.

  Peter Blegvad

  Song, Quality, Balls

  Interview with Franklin Bruno, believermag.com. November 1, 2009.

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• My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Song, Writing, Past

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

  Beth Orton

  Guitar, Feelings, Melody

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• There are some things that you can always bet on. One is that when Congress comes up with a new program it never works right over the long haul. Another is, when Congress goes to fix the mess it has made the mess only gets worse.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Long, Program, Made

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• A charging black rhinoceros is nothing to mess with. When it is headed straight toward you, it is the ultimate exercise in sphincter control. In my case, it was a strange bit of weather that caused one to charge me.

  Boyd Norton

  Exercise, Weather, Black

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• I believe strongly that a group's potential is eventually limited by the strength of its leadership. I'm an outsider, but it still looks to me like the leadership in the Java w orld is Fouled Up Beyond ALL Recognition. Java ISVs don't know whether to listen to Mom or Dad. Everybody knows IBM should just buy Sun and clean up the mess. When are they going to do it?

  Eric Sink

  Mom, Dad, Believe

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• I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.

  Erin Brockovich

  Government, Clean, Nations

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• Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

  Willis Regier

  Wade, Swamps, Scripture

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

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• We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes, don't make the boss look bad, don't give us any surprises." So we're asking for a kind of predictability, control, respect, and compliance that has nothing to do with learning.

  Walter Wriston

  Mistake, Giving, Support

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• But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.

  Woody Allen

  What If, Needs, Ears

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.

  Andy Stanley

  Happy Endings, Problem, Plans

  Andy Stanley, Heath Bennett (2010). “Up to You: It's Your Life, Choose Wisely”, p.11, Multnomah

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• Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.

  Mark Steel

  People, Puddles, Fetch

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• Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.

  Alice Walker

  Stuff, God Love, Pleasing God

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over.

  Conan O'Brien

  Mistake, Fall, Unique

  "Lemons as Gifts, Viruses for Good, Failure for Success and College Graduation: A Well-Intended Tale" by Sydney Small, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2014.

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• The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most holy, that is the most sacred thing in life, and if you have made a mess of your life, change it. Change it today, not tomorrow. If you are uncertain, find out why and be certain. If your thinking is not straight, think straight, logically, Unless all that is prepared, all that is settled, you cannot enter into this world, into the world of creation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life Changing, Thinking, Things In Life

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• No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.

  Anthony de Mello

  Hurt, Self, Opposites

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.79, Image

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• If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.

  Louis Armstrong

  Ifs

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• The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.

  Reza Aslan

  Meaningful, Media, Religion Of Islam

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it.

  Lino Rulli

  Hate, Leaving, Would Be

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• It's probably the last thing you think about when you're making a film is other people's problems. You're thinking about your problem, which is making the movie. But you do have a responsibility. You can't mess around with people's emotions.

  Conor McPherson

  Responsibility, Thinking About You, People

  "Interview: Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of ‘The Eclipse’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. Posted on.

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• If you're into writing and making people laugh, or just want to video blog something, you should get a simple digital video camera. And all computers now come with an easy video editing software program. Just mess around with that for a little bit, try to figure it out, then just put stuff online and have fun. Never give up!

  Lucas Cruikshank

  Fun, Giving Up, Writing

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