Mess Quotes - Page 5

• You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines.

  Neal Knox

  Fighting, Winning, Thinking

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• I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Letting Go, Thinking, Ideas

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• People in a state like Pennsylvania, especially in the middle of the state, as you say, want the focus on repairing the state. Pennsylvania is a mess in terms of infrastructure. They don`t want to blow up bridges over there. They want to build them here.

  Chris Matthews

  Blow, Bridges, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a mess in a way that's palatable. I like that.

  Greta Gerwig

  Cute, Mistake, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• When fans get very passionate about a movie, they just want you to do it well. They don't want you to screw it up. Their idea of doing it well might be different than yours, but ultimately, they really just don't want you to mess up the thing that they love.

  Nina Jacobson

  Ideas, Fans, Different

  "Producer Nina Jacobson Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, Sequels, the Violence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.

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• The security of computers and the Internet is a horrible and dangerous mess. Every week we hear about breaches of databases of Social Security numbers and financial information and health records, and about critical infrastructure being insecure.

  Matt Blaze

  Insecure, Numbers, Records

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be - instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Kids, Romance, Feelings

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.38, Macmillan

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• Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

  Taylor Swift

  Appreciate, Waiting, Feels

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• Life is difficult for everyone, everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Bad Day, Worry, Levels Of Life

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

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• I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.

  Bipasha Basu

  Demand, Oscars, Hollywood

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• Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Expression, Hot

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• Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, "You're a disgusting, drunken mess." And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Girlfriend, Party, Believe

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess.

  Jim Carrey

  Fists, Hell, Throwing

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• I want to launch a globe into space just to mess with the astronauts.

  Demetri Martin

  Space, Want, Astronaut

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• Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's.

  Carol Leifer

  Airports, Over You, Lasts

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• Time machine... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass I'm your son from the future! Ahaha!

  Dane Cook

  Mom, Sex, Dad

  "Tourgasm", 2006.

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• The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene orderliness of imagined reality, give a special tense dazzle and an atmosphere of tour de force to any photographs that succeed in the search.

  Janet Malcolm

  Art, Reality, Odds

  Janet Malcolm (1997). “Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography”

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• You don't mess with janitors, first of all, they have like 40 keys, and 1 is to a closet you don't want to be inside of.

  Chelsea Handler

  Keys, Want, Firsts

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• If your taste goes wrong or you listen to other people's tastes too much, even though they could make a fantastic movie out of it with their own tastes, if they blend their tastes with mine, it's probably going to be a mess.

  Andre Øvredal

  People, Too Much, Taste

  Source: collider.com

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• When you are filming, you have to let the thing really open so you can bring more life and details into it and even look for some kind of imperfection. It's good to have a good script but then you must make a mess out of it, I think.

  Pascal Chaumeil

  Thinking, Imperfection, Details

  Source: collider.com

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• We all have a friend or family member who can't bear the sight of a mess. Use her obsessive compulsion to your advantage! Whisper in her ear: "I'm always impressed by how neat your house is. Can you do me a favor and help tidy this place up as the night goes on?"

  Clinton Kelly

  Night, Sight, House

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• For me, a breakup changed my entire life. I was a mess. I really got rocked, and I ended up turning it into a positive thing.

  Greg Behrendt

  Change, Breakup, Positive Things

  "You will survive: How to turn a breakup into a 'breakover'". Interview with Pamela Sitt, www.seattletimes.com. October 23, 2005.

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• I can't say I'm never going to mess up, but if I do, I'll definitely be very sorry.

  Emma Roberts

  Sorry, Ifs, I Can

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• When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.

  Ed Helms

  Real, Character, Confusing

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• Very neat for a boy; always cleaned up his mess, no matter where he got it on me. He's Hispanic, so he's like, 'Now who's the wetback?' I'm like, 'Hey, still you. Get back in the kitchen, those dishes aren't going to do themselves.

  Amy Schumer

  Boys, Kitchen, Hey

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