Messy Quotes - Page 7

• If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human being may a very messy thing, but to be an artist is something else entirely, because art is religion, art is sex, art is society. Art is everything.

  Lucas Samaras

  Art, Sex, Giving Up

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• A mother needs to be in the home even when the kids aren’t. A messy house sends a coded message to children: “I’m not loveable. Otherwise Mother would dust.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mother, Children, Home

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• The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

  David Lynch

  Hurt, Zero, Pain

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• [B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.

  Ira Berlin

  Reality, Opposites, History

  Ira Berlin (2009). “Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired.

  Neil Gaiman

  Amiable, Vague, Puzzled

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  Nate Berkus

  Dream, Brother, Boys

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• Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

  Danielle Steel

  Pain, Love Is, People

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• Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. “Not interested. Love’s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Cigarette Smoke, Goofy

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• The parts of the [Civil Right] Movement we recognize so well now were not born from a single decision, but were a complicated and messy evolution of ideas and spirits, coming together after a long, hard struggle to triumph in moments when the odds seemed the longest.

  Andrew Aydin

  Struggle, Ideas, Odds

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Ministry is messy because sin is messy. Get over it, get a mop and start helping people clean up!

  Jud Wilhite

  People, Ministry, Helping

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• I've seen Leonardo Da Vinci notebooks which are filled with tiny, messy scrawls written in mirror image across the page. I'd love to know how he kept all his projects going at once.

  William Gurstelle

  Notebook, Mirrors, Pages

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• No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Should, Position, Privileged

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life isn't perfect and that's the kind of world where Jesus showed up. He wasn't born in a palace on a perfect day. He was born in the middle of the night during tax season to an unwed couple in a stable or a cave in a sheep field. That was God's way of showing us that nothing is perfect. Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

  Louie Giglio

  Jesus, Couple, Night

  "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I'm a dirty kid, I like to be outside, I like to run about, I like to get messy. So I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, skating and just being a disaster.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Running, Dirty, Kids

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• I also believe that upending ingrained ideas about what assault is a gun to the head, a stranger, a parking lot and what consent looks like a woman who gives a no really means yes is very messy. And part of the messiness is some students - and yes, usually these are liberal students - over-determining the definition of assault.

  Vanessa Grigoriadis

  Believe, Mean, Gun

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The key thing in my becoming a writer was going on a Arvon Foundation residential writing course. I took with me a really messy twenty thousand words of something that later became After You'd Gone, my first novel. My tutors were Barbara Trapido and Elspeth Barker.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Writing, Novel, Tutor

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think Girls is so great, because versions of it are close to my own experience of moving to New York. It's a fun. You know - get to be messy and silly and irresponsible, but also wrap that up at the end of the day and be an adult. It's a fun time, but not necessarily one you want to stay in for too long.

  Andrew Rannells

  Girl, Fun, Silly

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What's so great thing about clothes is that they're artificial - you can lie, you can choose the way you look, which is not true of natural beauty. So if you're naturally beautiful, wear what you want, but that's 01% of people. Most people just aren't good looking enough to wear what they have on. They should change. They should get some slacks and a nice overcoat. Remember when the style was incredibly messy hair? That's great if you're a model. But if you're not a model, you would look better if you washed your hair, because you are not beautiful.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Beautiful, Nice, Lying

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.

  Jodie Evans

  Excited, Forty

  Source: progressive.org

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• Along the way, a lot of filmmakers get rid of things that are messy or don't fit in some ways. To me, I want to work with serendipity and things we happened upon. That's our job, that's what the form demands.

  Robert Greene

  Jobs, Serendipity, Way

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think that relations between professors and grad students can be messy and not entirely boundable. Part of the problem is that those boundaries become eroticized. I don't think people are quite so managerial with their sexuality. By suggesting that sex can be successfully regulated, we're imposing stupidity on the issue.

  Laura Kipnis

  Sex, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little... it'll grow back!

  Ed Robertson

  Sex, Fun, Eye

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• What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

  Bill Ayers

  Teaching, Community, Needs

  Source: www.smithmag.net

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• I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of mortal, fragile and limited creatures like you and I. I am against the idea of clean, clearly distinct epochs in the history of philosophy or indeed in anything else. I think that history is always messy, contingent, plural and material. I am against the constant revenge of idealism in how we think about history.

  Simon Critchley

  Revenge, Philosophy, Thinking

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• I hate a messy kitchen and my more casual husband has come to recognize it's more pleasant for him to clean up after himself rather than deal with me hating a messy kitchen.

  Emily Yoffe

  Husband, Hate, Kitchen

  "Inside Job". "Dear Prudence" with Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. December 2, 2014.

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