Mess Quotes - Page 39

• People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.

  Taylor Swift

  Eye, Train Wrecks, Two

  "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2014.

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• You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wisdom, Trouble, Knows

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• Things are tougher than we are, just
  As earth will always respond
  However we mess it about.

  Philip Larkin

  Earth

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.119, Faber & Faber

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• What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

  Samuel Beckett

  Truth, Swim, Speak

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• For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

  Mario Cuomo

  Italian, Would Be, Sacred Things

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• There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work.

  John R. Erickson

  Hard Work, Way, Beats

  John R Erickson, John R. Erickson (1988). “The original adventures of Hank the Cowdog”, Texas Monthly Press

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• In a time like this, when records are not selling, he's the only one that is selling. You know, Drake and all the other ones [did well], but Em did [close to] 800,000 his first week, and he's #1 for the fifth week. It's incredible. I think he has a faithful fan base of people who have been following him for years. They're not going to stop following him and not stop listening to his music. Em said he didn't like his last album as much as this one. You can hear the difference. I like both of the albums. '3 a.m.' is one of my joints. But Eminem has followers that's gonna mess with him until the day he dies.

  Tony Yayo

  Thinking, Years, Differences

  "Eminem Is The 'Godfather Of The Hip-Hop Game,' G-Unit Members Say" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. July 29, 2010.

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• I don't really mess with Instagram much, but I get why people love it. Because to me, it's better to tell a story through a picture than 140 characters.

  Rashida Jones

  Character, People, Stories

  "Rashida Jones #PutaBibOnIt at Dannijo's Fall 2013 Presentation". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. February 8, 2013.

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• I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things.

  Anne Hathaway

  Opportunity, Drug, Want

  Interview with Milosh Marinovich, www.cbsnews.com. June 21, 2006.

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• Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.

  Bruce Lee

  Guy, Too Much, Students

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• Anybody who's ever dealt with me knows not to mess with me.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Mess With Me, Knows

  "Tyrrell: Unpleasant people" by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., www.cnn.com. November 30, 2006.

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• U.S. Government has said they are now going to go after the terrorist's electronic banking system. You know what they should do? They should transfer bin Laden's funds to my bank. They'd mess up his deposits, screw up his statement and nickel and dime him to death with service charges.

  Jay Leno

  Government, Screw Ups, Dimes

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• (Pete) Rose's coming clean is the most soiled conversion of convenience since ... well, Aug. 17, 1998, when DNA evidence caused Bill Clinton to undergo a memory clarification. On the diamond, no one ever wrung more success from less natural talent than Rose did. But his second autobiography - which refutes the first - makes worse the mess he has made.

  George Will

  Memories, Natural Talent, Dna

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• You can take my cars or my house, just don't mess with my clothes.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Clothes, Car, House

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• He (Frank Robinson
  as Manager) can step on your shoes, but he doesn't mess up your shine.

  Joe Morgan

  Shoes, Shining, Steps

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• The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has an arm-lock on God. And God has very particular political opinions. God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America's Middle Eastern policy, and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist.

  John le Carre

  Religious, War, Ideas

  "British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, “Our Kind of Traitor”". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2010.

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• Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  College, Names, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About Thi”, p.142, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to disaster. Take Britain. The two problems which have caused the greatest trouble since the war ended have been transportation and coal. The government seized both industries when the war broke out. It got them into such a hopeless mess that it does not know how to turn [In] coal; the government now realizes, it took hold of the tail of a wild animal and is afraid to let go.

  B. C. Forbes

  Letting Go, War, Animal

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• There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.

  Madeleine Albright

  Spring, Reality, Community

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. July 27, 2014.

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• One person's mess is merely another person's filing system.

  Margo Kaufman

  Filing, Organized, Persons

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• No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Revenge, Nerd, Computer

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• The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course [now], nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds -- my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say -- unless I mess up.

  William J. Clinton

  Wife, President, World

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• We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.

  Pema Chodron

  Beautiful, Interesting, Together

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• A bull in just about any shop is gonna be a mess.

  Sarah Silverman

  Bulls, Shops

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• Jesus doesn't avoid those who mess up. Jesus runs to those who mess up.

  Matt Chandler

  Running, Jesus

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