Screwed Up Quotes - Page 6

• It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Stupid, Ideas

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.93, Penguin

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• When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

  Albert Brooks

  Firsts, Thongs, Sentences

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.

  Tom Brady

  White, Needs, Culture

  "Tom Brady Talks Modeling, Kids & His Similarities To Gisele". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2009.

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• I pride myself on being down-to-earth. I’m from the Midwest. People who go into show business are screwed up. I romanticized about having a serene life.

  Craig Kilborn

  People, Shows, Show Business

  "What ever happened to Craig Kilborn?". Interview with Clark Collis, ew.com. June 25, 2010.

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• It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.

  John Mica

  Talking, Tsa, People

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• Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before they turn in a first draft. . . . each writer's process is screwed up in its own way.

  Warren Leight

  Self, Locks, Fever

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• Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Political, Intellectual, Materials

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.467, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

  Henry Mintzberg

  People, Healthy, Ordinary

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• I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

  John Lennon

  Girl, Dream, Women

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• If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.

  Oswald Chambers

  Son, Good Man, Problem

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• You should definitely have a travel agent. Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself, only to see the arrangements get all screwed up, when with just a single phone call you can have a trained professional screw them up for you?

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Agency, Phones

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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• My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

  Jessica Hahn

  Mother, Dad, Toilets

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• One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Fighting, White, People

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• That’s what makes a character interesting from an actor’s perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

  Jeri Ryan

  Character, Interesting, Perspective

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said."And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said.

  Janet Evanovich

  Fun, Giving, Car

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Sizzling Sixteen”, p.171, Macmillan

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• I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.

  Mary Crosby

  Names, People, Parent

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• Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.

  Peter Biskind

  Marriage, Wedding, Noon

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• Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.

  Greg Norman

  Mistake, Golf, Work Out

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• Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. Screwed-up people start wars that could kill millions. Normal people settle fights through cookies, cakes, and pies. Normal people are fat.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophy, War, Philosophical

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

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• There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

  John Kricfalusi

  People, Talent

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• I had a dual goal in my running that was to win and to achieve excellence, so I was never happy with a slow tactical time. If the race were slow I would get in front and pull it up again. I couldn't stand a slow race. A lot of people seem to get screwed up on tactics. There is only one tactic in a race and that is to always be in a position where you can win it.

  Herb Elliott

  Motivational, Running, Winning

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• Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Truth, Past, Stories

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.208, Random House

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• They're trying to say that greater federal authority would have made a difference, ... The reality is that the feds are the ones that screwed up in the first place. It's not about authority. It's about leadership. ... They've got all the authority already.

  George Haddow

  Reality, Differences, Trying

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• I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.

  Nora Roberts

  Smooth

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• Some of the funniest people I know are not screwed up in the head.

  Darrell Hammond

  People, Knows

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