Bad Word Quotes - Page 3

• I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sports, Business, Mad

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• Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Taken, Past, Car

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• For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

  Edmund Spenser

  Evil, Deeds, May

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• Being honest, if I had a daughter I wouldn't want her listening to a Nicki Minaj CD until she was a certain age. Even when I meet my fans and they tell me they are 12, I cringe a little. I always say, 'Listen. I don't want you saying the bad words, put school first.'

  Nicki Minaj

  Daughter, School, Cds

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• I wouldn't let anyone say a bad word about Cheryl Cole.

  Luke Pasqualino

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• When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

  Lois Lowry

  Divorce, Racism, Attention

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• There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad word.' You know bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions.

  George Carlin

  People, Groups, Use

  "George Carlin (1937–2008): Legendary Comedian Challenged Status Quo Throughout 50-Year Career". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 24, 2008.

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• I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.

  Gloria Steinem

  Long, Humanist, Understood

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Names, People

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me

  Tim Minchin

  Hate, Body

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