Messed Up Quotes - Page 6

• I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.

  Sondre Lerche

  Song, Writing, Simple

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• When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.

  David Plotz

  New York, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.slate.com

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• When you're angry, you can't fight rationally. Your body chemistry is all messed up. Your energy goes to all the wrong places. You can't do anything well except get angrier. That's why I like fighting guys who are pumped up on steroids. Fighting is all about relaxing and releasing tension, so your body is flexible and fluid, able to bend and flex quickly, like water. I like fighting angry guys who are really tense. They can't think right, and they can't fight right.

  Frank Shamrock

  Fighting, Thinking, Mma

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• We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

  Guy Spier

  Understanding, Trying, World

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• Because I've been that drunk person in the club so many thousands of times, when I'm in an environment where people are drunk or on drugs, I certainly don't judge them. Because it's almost a given that for much of my life I've been way more messed up than them.

  Moby

  People, Drunk, Judging

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.

  Cheryl Strayed

  People, Advice, Know It All

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• I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000. I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Should Have, Lawyer, Kind

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The next album I make might be the most messed up thing ever. It's all momentary for me.

  Ty Segall

  Albums, Might, Next

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Someone asked me if I play piano because I feel like I have a protective wall around me. Maybe. I am really messed up.

  Daniel Powter

  Wall, Play, Piano

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I messed up on the Vietnam Special, because I gave it to civilians? Only military men can handle that.

  Si Robertson

  Military, Men, Special

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Columbia Heights was a poor, messed up area, and the church was in the middle of it. What happened inside was a reflection of the community. I actually saw my first rock concert on the altar of that church [St. Stephen's].

  Ian MacKaye

  Reflection, Rocks, Community

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when he was young. His father was a playboy and a drunk. He was shifted around to many different homes. He knew he was a writer when he was about nine, but he was dyslexic. So here was a person with an absolutely messed-up childhood and a symptom that prevented him from doing what he wanted to do most. Yet that very symptom was part of the calling. It forced him to go deeper.

  James Hillman

  Mother, Father, Home

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Perfect, Want, Stills

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• Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Mother, Father, Great Love

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• Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the quiet observer, sometimes the kid in the center of the messed-up carnival, these poems are the fireflies you’ve missed all winter, the longed-for return of the bees. Unaffected and inherently hopeful, Callihan’s work is as merciful as it is moving.

  Ada Limon

  Moving, Kids, Firefly

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• leave it to him to get messed up with deaths little girl

  Larissa Ione

  Girl, Littles

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• Why do u drive on a parkway and park in the driveway. Its messed up.

  Justin Bieber

  Parks, Driveway

  Twitter post from Jun 2, 2010

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• I've got this image in my head of how I want my life to look, and I have absolutely no idea how to get there. And I'm so scared that I'll make some wrong decision - just one - and everything will get messed up and go wrong -for good.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Ideas, Decision, Looks

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.178, Scholastic Inc.

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• Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and Jason felt a little jealous she was giving Lit that smile.

  Rick Riordan

  Cute, Sorry, Jealous

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• And when Jace was ten years old, Valentine killed him. Michael, I mean." "That sounds like something he would do," said Luke. His tone was neutral, but there was something in his voice that made Clary look at him sideways. Did he not believe her? "Jace saw him die, " she added, as if to bolster her claim. "That's awful," said Luke. "Poor messed-up kid.

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Believe, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up or what you have to do on the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost.

  Paul Azinger

  Golf, Thinking, Keys

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• The world economy is in a nosedive, and understanding what I call "depression economics" - the weird world you get into when even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, and a messed-up financial system is dragging down the real economy - is essential if we're going to avoid the worst.

  Paul Krugman

  Zero, Real, Understanding

  "Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman on the Economy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2008.

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• I have this new theory about films. It's almost like astrology, where if we started on a Tuesday the film will be different than if we started on a Wednesday. Not because of the planets. It's that sometimes you start with the wrong balance and the whole thing gets messed up.

  Gus Van Sant

  Astrology, Tuesday, Balance

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

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• When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Legs, Causes, Kind

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• We all start out with no discipline, no patience, no perseverance, no determination. We all start out at zero. People say, 'You have talent.' No, the gift is to realize that we all start out even. Whether we messed up or put our best foot forward, with these four qualities, we take care of our mental, physical and spiritual health each day. Am I the best in the world? No. The question is: Am I the best I can be?

  Edward James Olmos

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Determination

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