Screw Ups Quotes - Page 4

• Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.

  Steve Coogan

  Mother, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 20, 2008.

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• Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.

  Denis Leary

  Worry, Today, Way

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• I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.

  John Piper

  Sacrifice, Longing, Christ

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.251, Multnomah

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• We live in a country where power changes hands cyclically, because everybody in power screws up at some point, or the voters get fickle and just want a change.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Hands, Fickle

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We're dreamers and - since we only have one life, and if we screw up we can get in a world of trouble - we're very intense dreamers.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Dreamer, World, Trouble

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

  Viola Davis

  Wall, People, Giving

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

  Brandon Thomas

  Chance, Very Good, Screws

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• Our politicians screw up all the time, as we see. But with so many things, we're no longer the world leader in that.

  Peter Sagal

  Leader, World, Politician

  "Bluff The Listener". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

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• At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.

  Vince Gill

  Song, People, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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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, Dimes, Banking

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• But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.

  Keith Richards

  Dog, Good Times, Stage

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• Just 'cause you love someone doesn't mean you should stick around and screw up their life.

  Dean Winchester

  Mean, Causes, Sticks

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  No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.

  Will Ferrell

  Matter, Screws

  The Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. December 3, 2010.

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• You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.

  Jake Roberts

  Embarrassing, Rings, Screws

  "Jake "The Snake" Roberts Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.

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• Id rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.

  Mike Shinoda

  Up Early, Body, Get Up

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• The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

  Brené Brown

  Powerful, Teaching, Moments

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• Everyone is wounded. No one is healthy enough to never screw up, when you're in combat. But, I like to show that, and I like to show how people get back from that. You have to forgive each other. When you're in the middle of a long-term commitment, the essence of it is that everyone is going to have good days and bad days, and it's about how you continue to rejoin forces.

  Judd Apatow

  Commitment, Good Day, Bad Day

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

  Shawn Amos

  Screws, Screwed Up, Stills

  "The Curse of Celebrity Children" by Shawn Amos, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2009.

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• A lot of the time you see a warning, in the subway, or in a movie theater, the main thrust of the warning will be to not panic if there is an emergency. To listen to directions. Now that's a waste. They could have given you information, but you can see their expectation that you're going to screw up.

  Amanda Ripley

  Expectations, Panic, Waste

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.

  Mark Thornton

  Government, Enough, Given

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• I have a friend who is a juggler. If I'm at his house, I don't like to take food from him, if it's in threes. He has three apples left, I guess I can't have one. I wouldn't want to screw up his practice routine.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Practice

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• My girlfriend is named Lynn. She spells her name "Lynn". My old girlfriend's name is Lyn, too, but she spells it "Lyn". Every now and then I screw up, I call my new girlfriend by my old girlfriend's name, and she can tell because I don't say "n" as long.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

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• Wrestling and acting couldn't be anymore different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is implosion. One really screws up the other.

  Roddy Piper

  Wrestling, Acting, Different

  "Rowdy Roddy Piper Lends his Voce to Green Lantern: Emerald Knights". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. May 5, 2011.

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• We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

  Lee Unkrich

  Goal, Essentials, Pixar

  "Animating a Blockbuster: How Pixar Built 'Toy Story 3'" by Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. May 24, 2010.

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• New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the Reverend Ted Haggard, was outed for drugs and extramarital gay sex with a male prostitute. Or as Fox News reported it, 'John Kerry hates our troops'.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Hate, Gay

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