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Che Guevara presented a pitiful figure, dirty, smelly and run-down, che Guevara ’d been on the run for months. Che Guevara hair was long, messy and matted, and Che Guevara beard bushy. – Captain Prado	Found on New York Times 11 months ago
Markets could get messy amid the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, alongside ongoing uncertainty over the future path of the global economy and interest rates. – Marty Dropkin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was a messy, messy time. It was very bad, and lots of people died. – Redwan Farooq	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Procedural mistakes should splatter like paint. It’s messy but the results should be random. In my four years here every mistake DOJ has made has benefited one side and harmed the other. That’s a hell of a coincidence. – Kelly Armstrong	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Discounting whistleblowers before the Democrats know what the witnesses have to offer says a lot more about their agenda than it does about the validity of the whistleblowers, procedural mistakes should splatter like paint. It’s messy but the results should be random. In my four years here every mistake DOJ has made has benefited one side and harmed the other. That’s a hell of a coincidence. – Kelly Armstrong	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My family, my kids, work that gives me satisfaction, having fun, hell, not being a buzzkill. And sometimes Democrats are. Sometimes people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells, and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy and that all of us, at any given moment, can say things the wrong way, make mistakes. – Barack Obama	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's going to be a very messy litigation. – Kenneth Henderson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The promise of accountability was the only check on this guy [ MBS ], now it's gone, when the President of the US goes to this murderer's hometown to appease him, he's not only glossing over his past heinous crimes with stunning impunity but enabling his future ones. It's a wink-wink nudge-nudge to commit the next crime in a cleaner, less messy fashion. – Jamal Khashoggi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The thing about wastewater data is that it is inherently messy. – Megan Diamond	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s always a danger to be playing in a foreign country, and then when you mix in an allegation like drugs going through an airport, that’s going to be very messy, and then when you add on top of it what’s going on between Russia and Ukraine, that’s a whole other element. It’s kind of a perfect storm here. – Dan Lust	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They all had contracts, right? It can get very messy and very sticky because when you see, like, this person's going to get a $9 million payout, but this [other] person isn't going to get anything, that creates a lot of discrepancies. – Justin Danhof	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Buffalo Chicken Pinwheels have all the flavors of buffalo chicken wings — spicy sauce, chicken, celery and blue cheese — rolled up into a tortilla. So no messy fingers, the trick to achieving pinwheels that hold their shape and don't fall apart is to wrap the tortilla rolls in plastic wrap and refrigerate them for several hours before slicing. – Cara Lanz of MidwesternHomeLife.com	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There was something shifting that forced us to deal with politics way more than we ever did before. Democracy is messy, i think Covid brought out the hyper messiness. – Donald Fennoy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm like a messy garden that needs to be landscaped. Only after I've been properly and appropriately landscaped will you see my true potential. – Ryan Pack	added by littleking 2 years ago
It's a very salacious, messy situation, amongst all this, there's a whole bunch of people. – Troy Hunt	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Disentangling ourselves from the war in Afghanistan was never going to be easy, and for my friends who presume a clean solution for the withdrawal existed, I would welcome hearing what exactly a smooth withdrawal from a messy, chaotic, 20-year war looks like. In fact, I’ve yet to hear the clean withdrawal option, because I don’t believe one exists. – Gregory Meeks	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The most important thing is, as Democrats, we remain united behind the objectives that have been set by President Joe Biden, democracy is messy, and Democrats are not a cult, we're a coalition. – Hakeem Jeffries	Found on CNN 2 years ago
They're cuddling by the fire, they're going on trips together, they're introducing their friends to their family, but they're very clear that those are friendships, it really makes me think about the definitions that we have about friendship and romance, and how those things differ, and I just like how messy it all is. – Danu Stinson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways. – Glennon Doyle	added by Soulwriter 2 years ago
The AstraZeneca study was a little more messy overall. – Thomas Mertens	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Read MoreAttempts could terminate those contracts if Read MoreAttempts want to, but Read MoreAttempts's going to be a very lengthy, messy process, we're going to have to go into settlement agreements with each individual contractor. – Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The June primary was very messy on Election Day, very long lines, people were very upset, people are very upset at the thought of putting your vote in a drop-box. People feel like that's not secure. – Georgia GOP	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The conflict with Moro undercuts his electoral base, and Brazil can't afford to be leaderless, not in the biggest economic collapse in generations, this is very messy. I wouldn't be investing in Brazil right now, not with interest rates so low. – Paul McNamara	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is very messy. I wouldn't be investing in Brazil right now, not with interest rates so low. – Paul McNamara	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

Che Guevara presented a pitiful figure, dirty, smelly and run-down, che Guevara ’d been on the run for months. Che Guevara hair was long, messy and matted, and Che Guevara beard bushy.

– Captain Prado

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

Markets could get messy amid the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, alongside ongoing uncertainty over the future path of the global economy and interest rates.

– Marty Dropkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was a messy, messy time. It was very bad, and lots of people died.

– Redwan Farooq

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Procedural mistakes should splatter like paint. It’s messy but the results should be random. In my four years here every mistake DOJ has made has benefited one side and harmed the other. That’s a hell of a coincidence.

– Kelly Armstrong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Discounting whistleblowers before the Democrats know what the witnesses have to offer says a lot more about their agenda than it does about the validity of the whistleblowers, procedural mistakes should splatter like paint. It’s messy but the results should be random. In my four years here every mistake DOJ has made has benefited one side and harmed the other. That’s a hell of a coincidence.

– Kelly Armstrong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My family, my kids, work that gives me satisfaction, having fun, hell, not being a buzzkill. And sometimes Democrats are. Sometimes people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells, and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy and that all of us, at any given moment, can say things the wrong way, make mistakes.

– Barack Obama

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's going to be a very messy litigation.

– Kenneth Henderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The promise of accountability was the only check on this guy [ MBS ], now it's gone, when the President of the US goes to this murderer's hometown to appease him, he's not only glossing over his past heinous crimes with stunning impunity but enabling his future ones. It's a wink-wink nudge-nudge to commit the next crime in a cleaner, less messy fashion.

– Jamal Khashoggi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The thing about wastewater data is that it is inherently messy.

– Megan Diamond

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s always a danger to be playing in a foreign country, and then when you mix in an allegation like drugs going through an airport, that’s going to be very messy, and then when you add on top of it what’s going on between Russia and Ukraine, that’s a whole other element. It’s kind of a perfect storm here.

– Dan Lust

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They all had contracts, right? It can get very messy and very sticky because when you see, like, this person's going to get a $9 million payout, but this [other] person isn't going to get anything, that creates a lot of discrepancies.

– Justin Danhof

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Buffalo Chicken Pinwheels have all the flavors of buffalo chicken wings — spicy sauce, chicken, celery and blue cheese — rolled up into a tortilla. So no messy fingers, the trick to achieving pinwheels that hold their shape and don't fall apart is to wrap the tortilla rolls in plastic wrap and refrigerate them for several hours before slicing.

– Cara Lanz of MidwesternHomeLife.com

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There was something shifting that forced us to deal with politics way more than we ever did before. Democracy is messy, i think Covid brought out the hyper messiness.

– Donald Fennoy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm like a messy garden that needs to be landscaped. Only after I've been properly and appropriately landscaped will you see my true potential.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
2 years ago

It's a very salacious, messy situation, amongst all this, there's a whole bunch of people.

– Troy Hunt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Disentangling ourselves from the war in Afghanistan was never going to be easy, and for my friends who presume a clean solution for the withdrawal existed, I would welcome hearing what exactly a smooth withdrawal from a messy, chaotic, 20-year war looks like. In fact, I’ve yet to hear the clean withdrawal option, because I don’t believe one exists.

– Gregory Meeks

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The most important thing is, as Democrats, we remain united behind the objectives that have been set by President Joe Biden, democracy is messy, and Democrats are not a cult, we're a coalition.

– Hakeem Jeffries

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They're cuddling by the fire, they're going on trips together, they're introducing their friends to their family, but they're very clear that those are friendships, it really makes me think about the definitions that we have about friendship and romance, and how those things differ, and I just like how messy it all is.

– Danu Stinson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways.

– Glennon Doyle

added by Soulwriter
2 years ago

The AstraZeneca study was a little more messy overall.

– Thomas Mertens

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

– Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The June primary was very messy on Election Day, very long lines, people were very upset, people are very upset at the thought of putting your vote in a drop-box. People feel like that's not secure.

– Georgia GOP

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The conflict with Moro undercuts his electoral base, and Brazil can't afford to be leaderless, not in the biggest economic collapse in generations, this is very messy. I wouldn't be investing in Brazil right now, not with interest rates so low.

– Paul McNamara

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is very messy. I wouldn't be investing in Brazil right now, not with interest rates so low.

– Paul McNamara

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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