Screws Quotes - Page 7

• I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

  Jaron Lanier

  People, Able, Economic

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• The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

  Patrick Swayze

  Success, Failure, Giving

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• You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

  David Spade

  Depressing, Fun, Looks

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

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• And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

  Henry Rollins

  Laughing, Happens

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• Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

  Jake Roberts

  Good Day, Screw Ups, Start The Day

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

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• Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Screw Ups, Cameras, Intimidating

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

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• Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

  Patrick Duffy

  Fall, Good Luck, Hard Work

  "Patrick Duffy Is the Girl Next Door's Dad". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. February 3, 2006.

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• The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what’s No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don’t eat hamburgers.

  Maggie Q

  Thinking, Years, Meat Industry

  "‘Nikita’ Star Maggie Q On What’s Ahead In Season 3 And Her New PETA Campaign". Interview with Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2013.

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• For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, Nice, Character

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• The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly.

  Sebastian Junger

  Girlfriend, Commitment, Army

  "Failing the Voight-Kampff" by Dylan Ratigan, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2013.

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• Psychiatrist are like mind hookers. Give them 200 dollars and they just screw with your head.

  Christopher Titus

  Giving, Mind, Dollars

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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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• I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

  Kirstie Alley

  Believe, Eating Disorder, Screw Ups

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• What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing so we just didn't want to screw that up.

  Bartlett Sher

  Voice, Want, Cherish

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• Well, it looks like we've moved a step closer to war. Not with Iraq. With France and Germany. How did we screw that one up?

  Jay Leno

  War, Iraq, Germany

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• Certain people just go home and veg out, certain people go travel the world and certain people are like, "Screw this, I'm going to work the entire time."

  Shane West

  Home, People, World

  Source: collider.com

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• The resources you happen to accumulate, what do you do with them? You can spend the money and buy some houses or whatever, and people do some of that and that's fine. You can give the money to other people, your family, but usually when you do that you screw them up and it ends up counterproductive. Or, you take those resources and reinvest them in things that you believe in, and that could be reinvesting in a philanthropic cause.

  Steve Case

  Believe, People, Giving

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• It would be easier to screw up American Express than Coke or Gillette, but it's an immensely strong business.

  Charlie Munger

  Strong, Screw Ups, Would Be

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• The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

  David Mamet

  Religious, Believe, Men

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• I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.

  Linda Cardellini

  Crazy, Thinking, Odds

  "Linda Cardellini’s Return". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2012.

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• I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them.

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Play, Trying

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• I can charm my way out of a situation when I screw up.

  Cory Arcangel

  Screw Ups, Way, Charm

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Cable was a blessing for me. Thank god, I've done a show that's going to be iconic. So, if I screw up, it's all right because I already have something that's going to be iconic.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Blessing, Thank God, Screw Ups

  "Giancarlo Esposito Talks REVOLUTION, Ensuring that He’s Not Repeating His BREAKING BAD Character, the Show’s Extended Hiatus, and More". Interview by Christina Radish, collider.com. March 25, 2013.

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• People screw up, you know. You shouldn't hold it against them. You shouldn't expect everyone to know everything you're thinking about or not getting from them. It doesn't mean they don't love you. They just screwed up.

  Laura Dave

  Love You, Mean, Thinking

  Laura Dave (2016). “Eight Hundred Grapes: A Novel”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours.

  Dennis Miller

  Jobs, Screw Ups

  Dennis Miller (2010). “Rants”, p.144, Main Street Books

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