I’m not messing with skiing. You can’t get this Puerto Rican on the slope. Uh-uh.
I don’t want to live with the guilt of messing up someone’s retirement fund.
I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
If I ever feel like I’m messing up, making the worst decisions, or I’m just lesser than – if I’m being self-deprecating – I just think, ‘Cheer up, dude, you’re a lot worse than you think.’ It makes me laugh. It takes me out of it.
Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
‘The Voice’ was the first real job I’ve ever had that wasn’t just messing around with music.
I don’t care what you say about me anymore! I don’t care what you write about me anymore. I don’t care! This is my life. I can’t have anybody messing with my life. I just want to be Gerry Cooney, doing what I want to do. I want to be what I am. A fighter.
I’m always up to no good, messing about.
Men are trained to like this version of womanhood, and when someone comes along smashing the table and messing up the party, it’s a bit like, ‘Get out; why are you disturbing the peace?’
Anytime you are superspeedway racing, we’re messing around with inches here and when you feel like it’s your friend that wrecked you, you get a little bit more upset.
I’m reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I’m prey to embarrassment – the dread that everyone’s sort of sniggering at you, that you’re going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.
Woody Harrelson played a long-term love interest of Debra Messing’s; I think it was for a whole season. They almost cast Nick in that part. They almost had given to him. But at the eleventh hour, Jim Burrows put in a call to Woody, and he said he would do it.
On Christmas, when I was 13, my mom got me my first laptop. I downloaded it, FruityLoops, cause I had heard about it, and started messing around.
Stop messing around sending me unranked fighters. I want someone ranked, someone that will take me closer to my goal, which is to become champion.
Climates always change. The question is, how are we going to adapt to climate change? Now, it may be true that we are accelerating it inadvertently by messing with our atmosphere, but regardless of that, the climate will change.
In my opinion, you start messing with what this country was founded on, and our baseline is what we call it, it opens up too many – too many doors. You start messing with that, people can say religion kills people. So, let’s start messing with that.
I don’t believe in messing with mother-nature too much.
I’ve been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don’t want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it.
When people start messing with their foreheads and can’t lift their eyebrows, that’s weird.
My mom is just someone who’s easy to talk to and hang with. My sister, it’s always cool to be able to help her out with things. My brother is fun when we’re just joking and messing around. And my dad is someone who’s helpful with my music and easy to talk to about that stuff because he understands me in that sense.
When I recorded my first line on a song in a studio, I was four. My dad makes music, so he was kind of messing around in his studio, and he had a line for me to say, and I recorded it, and that was at the beginning of one of his songs.
Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I’ve never looked back.
There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
The giant fraud that is Britain’s education system strides ever onwards, messing up many more lives than it improves.
I think some people get just locked into ‘this is the way it has to be,’ and they’re afraid of messing something up. I don’t ever want to be that way with shooting or with anything, really – not just shooting.
There’s a lot of comedic value to fraternities, but whenever you start messing with power dynamics and you take away consequences, you can tread some dangerous waters.
Messing up lines is always embarrassing for me.
I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8×10. But I’ve started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
When you’re on the road, there’s no time for second chances and messing yourself up.
From the age of six I used to watch every England team and when I was messing around in the backyard I would pretend to be whoever was scoring runs at the time, whether they were a right or left-hander. I just wanted to be them and do that.
I’m the type of guy that’s always having a joke, messing around, but when it comes to the serious stuff, you know, your head’s on the game.
I prefer to make my own coffee at home because I love the experience of measuring out the beans and finding the right grind setting, messing with water amounts, etc. It’s truly an art form, and I’m obsessed with it. In L.A., I love Blue Bottle and Intelligentsia and used to hang at Bru in Los Feliz.
When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. I just started messing around. Then, after a couple of years, I got better. I actually learned some tricks, so I knew what I was doing instead of just messing.
I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone’s priorities. It’s like you’re dissing them.
I grew up around electronic instruments. To me, the turntable is an electronic device. At the same time, I had access to drum machines and keyboards through my uncle; then track recorders into computers. At an early age, I was messing with computers more than most hip-hop musicians.
I bombed so much as a standup that messing up doesn’t matter to me anymore. I kind of enjoy bombing sometimes – I try and make everybody hate me more. Like, once I know it’s not going well, I can just have fun.
The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.
It’s got to be both houses and the people coming together in unanimous decision when you start messing with the Constitution.
I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.
I did Christmas plays at school, but they banned me because I was messing about. And I was like, ‘Ah, why?’ Because I was getting attention, everyone was laughing at me and I was loving it, I thought, ‘This feels good!’
There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don’t want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they’ve been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.
It’s always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you’ve got to dress-up; that’s part of it.
But I’ve been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That’s when I really started listening to hip-hop music.
Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you’re messing up.
I’m Irish, so I’m messing all the time. Which means, I’m having a laugh. I’m always making jokes.
On a studio film, you don’t have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes; you have five other sets of it. Studio films make you the most comfortable so you can just act.
A show that I loved as a kid was ‘Maid Marian And Her Merry Men’. It was a really strong female character making fun of the boys, an inversion of gender politics. But it was very funny, too. I always wanted to be one of the village people messing about in the mud and being stinky.
Governor Scott Walker didn’t know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit.
If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been messing with us. Or the dinosaurs were here, and we never noticed them. Or a lot of people saw them but didn’t want to say anything.
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