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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, Screw Ups

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

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• Andrew Breitbart, self-described media mogul, had several screws loose or missing and was the grinning bomb-thrower of the radical right. He was the attack dog kept on a tight leash and brought out on special occasions to hiss and to menace.

  Bill Ayers

  Dog, Self, Media

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• I got my tubes tied last fall, at age 45. . ... After 33 years or so, I struggled to gain control of my reproductive potential and its power over my destiny. Finally, instead of letting nature continue to screw around with me, at least in this one area I engineered a pre-emptive strike.

  Marion Winik

  Fall, Destiny, Years

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• If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.

  Peter McWilliams

  Games, Giving, Screw Ups

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted someone without a stigma, he'd go and screw the lady next door.

  Camille Paglia

  Doors, Identity, Next

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• Look at, look, the Tea Partiers, who are controlling the Republican Party....Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What's, what does that, what underlines that? 'Screw the country. We're going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we're going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here... It is a racist thing.

  Morgan Freeman

  Country, Party, Men

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

  Denis Leary

  Worry, Today, Way

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• What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.

  Stephen Dunn

  Music, Lying, Taken

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• A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Book, Voice

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• But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isn’t free at all. So screw that.

  Mark Steyn

  Reality, Government, Lines

  Mark Steyn (2014). “The Undocumented Mark Steyn”, p.370, Regnery Publishing

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• When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

  Bob Lemon

  Baseball, Kids, Law

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• If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights as soon as it get duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, and squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Eye, Squirrels

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.201, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• ... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

  Robben Ford

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Political, Screw Ups

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.133, Crown Forum

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• I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.

  Judy Blume

  Sex, Mean, Kids

  Judy Blume (2014). “Forever”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• Screw guilt -- I could have sex with 10 men and it wouldn't bother me. I'm an atheist!

  Adam Carolla

  Atheist, Sex, Men

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• Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them. They had a brain and intestines, but no heart.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Heart, Night, Brain

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• Altitude sickness is gonna put the screws on you.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Sickness

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• When I die I want a child that never met me, to hear were I came from and what I accomplished and for him or her to live their life to the fullest and do what they were put on this world to do. No limitations, blowing past everybody's expectations. Screw whatever body thinks!

  Richard Cabral

  Children, Thinking, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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, Screw Ups, Enough

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• Preseason is just a way to screw fans out of money.

  Charles Barkley

  Way, Fans

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• Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.

  Paul MacCready

  Airplane, Aviation, Flight

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• You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

  Alfie Kohn

  Growing Up, Unconditional Love, Resent You

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• Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Writing, Intelligent, People

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