Dirty Words Quotes - Page 3

• "Pop" was a dirty word for a really long time and it feels like that's not the case anymore.

  Lizzy Plapinger

  Dirty, Long, Cases

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I remember the whole thing with the word ambition. I was messed up for a while because I associated it with certain people who just want to be famous. I think, for a while, it was kind of a dirty word for women.

  Winona Ryder

  Dirty, Ambition, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

  Don Hewitt

  Dirty, Naughty, Long

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• In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

  Ron Fournier

  Dirty, Naughty, Compromise

  "Why Gov. Christie Is Presidential Timber". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 9, 2013.

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• After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who writes dirty words in a public toilet to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.

  John Steinbeck

  Dirty, Writing, Boys

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Pastures of Heaven”, p.59, Penguin

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• There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

  Frank Zappa

  Powerful, Dirty, Fire

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• Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Fitness, Dirty, Food

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• The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations that are good unclean fun. A popular venture that is keen to paste—épater—everybody (not just the bourgeoisie), it is the art of the single entendre. Highly staged low life, it guffaws at the pious, the prudish, and the priggish. High cockalorum versus high decorum…. The introduction here, like the translator’s note, tells well the story of the comic tales, anonymous for the most part, usually two or three hundred lines long, of which about 160 exist.

  Christopher Ricks

  Art, Fun, Dirty

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• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.

  Dan Stevens

  Fun, Hate, Dirty

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word.

  Nora Johnson

  Dirty, Divorce, Doubt

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• Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.

  Ken Russell

  Dirty, Reality, People

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• There's nothing wrong with options. Options are everywhere. In movies, in sports. Options is not a dirty word. I need to pay my overheads, you know. I invest a lot of money developing a fighter and then I deserve to reap the rewards.

  Don King

  Sports, Dirty, Boxing

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• Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Dirty, Use, Language

  Jeff Lindsay (2008). “Dexter in the Dark”, p.22, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.

  Kevin Rudd

  Dirty, Compassion, Views

  Rudd's first speech as Labor leader, The Australian, December 5, 2006.

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• Please make sure everyone knows how much their messages mean to me. They have added greatly to my peace of mind. I only wish some of the writers would take a more positive approach to the menace of cancer. I've got it, sure; but I'm not afraid to use the word. Some of them act like it's a dirty word. That's the wrong attitude. We should all bring it out in the open, recognize that it exists, and fight it! Cancer is everybody's enemy. We can't 'think' an enemy out of existence by ignoring it.

  Gary Cooper

  Attitude, Cancer, Dirty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in jail. I wonder why that is? The only reason could be: To Serve the Devil - Pleasure! Pleasure, which is a dirty word in Christian culture.

  Lenny Bruce

  Christian, Dirty, Marijuana

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• Selfish isn't a dirty word. It means we take care of ourselves and are able to give back.

  Jillian Michaels

  Selfish, Dirty, Mean

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• Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dirty, Blessed, Acceptance

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• Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Real, Dirty

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Dec 17, 2015

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• Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.

  Buck Brannaman

  Dirty, Punishment, Discipline

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• A dirty word in the film business right now is intelligence.

  David Caruso

  Dirty, Film, Right Now

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Most people in America don't believe that "God" is a dirty word, but the sad fact is that some Americans are left to wonder whether the Supreme Court might have greater regard for it if it was.

  John Cornyn

  Believe, Dirty, America

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Dirty, Europe, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I find myself, after all these years, with a built-in safety-brake that stops me from doing certain things. And one of the reasons why I want to try so called hard pornography - I don't even know whether it's hard enough - is to see whether I will be able to overcome this. Because if there is one thing I hate, it's good taste, to me it's a dirty word.

  Helmut Newton

  Hate, Dirty, Years

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• I put in all the dirty words. It works really well. The thing that we found with 'Drive Angry,' more than anything else is that we wrote the movie that we wanted to see. I've done that before. I've wanted to see 'Jason X'. It did not become the movie that I thought it would be. That happens. It's happened with every movie I've ever done.

  Todd Farmer

  Dirty, Jason, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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