Messed Up Quotes
Calling something messed up is often the first honest step toward fixing it. These quotes describe a childhood dream interrupted by braces, unfair public judgments about looks and inner struggle, and a flawed voting-district system shaped by unfair political maneuvering, discussed here in general terms rather than naming any side. The set closes with a simple resolve: when something looks messed up, challenge it.
Recognizing a problem is the first step, much like naming what's Back when things go wrong.
I'm at a point where there isn't any wasted movement in the throwing motion. Everything is consistent and smooth. When I first got into the league, I held the ball really high. That was the standard in college, and it...
When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all...
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American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians.
The reason for my age being messed up in the records is that when I first appeared for the under-14 trials, I myself really did not know my exact age.
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Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'
Everything in Delhi is messed up. People are forced to buy bottled water as clean drinking water is not available.
I was in Cuba in the winter of 1937. I was playing in Cuba, and I'm in the shower, and I slipped and caught myself with my right arm. I felt something pull right then. Then, in '38, when I...
Before I got divorced, I was personally unfamiliar with trial, or at least trial of serious, heart-wrenching proportions. I figured that life went smoothly if you tried hard, and if you messed up, or things weren't working out, you just...
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I firmly believe Americans are far better off under tax reform than they ever were sticking with this old, messed up, outdated tax code.
Let's be honest: It wasn't just the banks who messed up. There were a lot of people who tried to buy assets they couldn't afford. That's a reality.
Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I'd rather not spend too much money on something that's just going to get messed up.
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Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don't do that anymore.
I don't know why actors are just attracted to really messed up people, but it almost makes it more fun, in a perverse way.
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
What a lot the media, and especially Fox News, has messed up with me is they've made it seem like I'm trying to take away people's guns - that I'm against the Second Amendment.
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