Bad Word Quotes

• We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

  John Guare

  Past, World, States

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• Bad words don't exist, but words with bad intentions behind.

  Roberto Fontanarrosa

  Intention, Bad Intentions, Behinds

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• I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

  Ellen Page

  Powerful, People, Feminist

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• I like people who can make you laugh without using vulgarity, or bad words.

  Michael Jackson

  People, Laughing, Vulgarity

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• A bad word that I can't say that starts with f.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  I Can

  "Overheard backstage at the Oscars" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.

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• Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

  Antonio Banderas

  Country, Knowing, People

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• A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

  Orson Welles

  Encouragement, Needs, Colleagues

  Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

  Federico Fellini

  Real, Lines, Imaginary

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• Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Elites

  "Aaron Sorkin At Golden Globes: 'Elite Is Not A Bad Word, It’s An Aspirational One'". www.mediaite.com. January 17, 2011.

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• It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

  Toni Morrison

  Love You, Humans, Human Beings

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Hate, People, Phrases

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• In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

  Helmut Newton

  Art, Vocabulary, Two

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• I don’t want to react because I don’t want them to know it’s a bad word, but I want to encourage them to talk so I’m like, ‘That’s good!’

  Jerry O'Connell

  Want, Knows

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• I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

  Hugh Jackman

  Dad, Selfish, Gentleman

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• If God does exist, it's in music and in art, I think there's more spiritually in what I do than in a lot of religious groups judging, especially in the way they've treated me in the past couple of years. I've grown tired of talking about religion. It's time for me to move on. I'm trying to redefine the idea of spirituality and make it now such a bad word for myself, because I find that I sound really stupid saying it sometimes

  Marilyn Manson

  Religious, Art, Couple

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• I think people somehow get a skewed view of Tom Brady. That he's just a clean-cut guy that does everything right and never says a bad word to anyone. We know him to be otherwise.

  Richard Sherman

  Cutting, Thinking, Views

  "CNN Tonight", www.cnn.com. January 21, 2015.

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• Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term; drop it from your vocabulary; trust nothing to luck, nor expect anything from it; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune.

  John Angell James

  Mean, Fate, Errors

  John Angell James (1851). “The young man's friend and guide through life to immortality”, p.180

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• "Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it. Jazz is a process. Jazz is a creative process. It's not so much a genre, but a way of expression.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Creative, Musician, Jazz

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• Older boys often asked me to teach them “some bad words in your language”. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means “I'm an idiot”. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling “I'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!”. I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Running, Determination, Teaching

  Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.34, Random House

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• I grew up in a very responsible, social, Democratic community, and destruction was a bad word. But, in California, destruction is a rad word. The juxtaposition of the two is really what made me into who I am today, in my battles with how fun it is to be bad, and how wrong it is to be bad.

  Rie Rasmussen

  Fun, Who I Am, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.

  Tom Felton

  Names, Dames, Nervous

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• If you have only a little capital and are young today, there are fewer opportunities than when I was young. Back then, we had just come out of a depression. Capitalism was a bad word. There had been abuses in the 1920s. A joke going around then was the guy who said, 'I bought stock for my old age and it worked - in six months, I feel like an old man!' "It's tougher for you, but that doesn't mean you won't do well - it just may take more time. But what the heck, you may live longer."

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, Opportunity, Men

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• I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.

  Neil Gaiman

  Block, Believe, Knowing

  "Interview with Neil Gaiman". Writers and Artists Interview, www.writersandartists.co.uk.

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• Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word.

  Greta Van Susteren

  Names, People, Doe

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• Fang laughed as he shoved Vane away 'Man, quit hugging on me. You are a perv." Vane punched him in the arm. "You're such an a**hole," Trace gasped. "Daddy said a bad word!" Fang said "You tell him pup. Keep your daddy straight.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Daddy, Hug

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