Dirty Work Quotes

• Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there's always beer.

  Norm MacDonald

  Beer, Self, Matter

  "My Year Of Flops Norm MacDonald's Film Career Died For Your Sins Case File #133: Dirty Work" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 18, 2009.

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• Note to self... Sex with blow-up doll is not as good as advertised.

  Norm MacDonald

  Sex, Blow, Self

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• Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Dirty, Men, Rely

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• If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.

  Neal Boortz

  Dirty, Government, Steps

  Neal Boortz (1998). “The Terrible Truth About Liberals”, p.48, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

  Jim Fowler

  Dirty, Naughty, Guy

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• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  Karl Marlantes

  War, Dirty, Kids

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.127, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I don't know" means "NO!" "I don't know" means "I'm too cowardly to tell you the truth because I can't deal with confrontation." "I don't know" means please do the dirty work for me because I don't want to hurt your feelings even more then I already have.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hurt, Dirty, Mean

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.38, Harmony

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• And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?

  John Ruskin

  Dirty, Land, Bye

  John Ruskin (1865). “Sesame and Lilies, etc”, p.69

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• I've learned how to be open and bold about my faith, but in terms of my influence, I just try to lead in a godly way. What that means for me is to serve them, whether it's just doing the dirty work, like cleaning up sweat on the floor, or deferring to other people, or carrying equipment bags.

  Jeremy Lin

  Dirty, Mean, Godly

  "Jeremy Lin: Taking Harvard basketball to new levels". StudentSoul Interview, studentsoul.intervarsity.org.

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• The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

  Shane Claiborne

  Dirty, Community, Willingness

  Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2009). “Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals”, p.68, InterVarsity Press

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• Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary, to deport them, to expel and burn them, to have everyone hate us.

  Ariel Sharon

  Hate, Dirty, Israel

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• I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. What you don't understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it.

  Ariel Sharon

  Jobs, War, Dirty

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• Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.

  John Lewis

  Dirty, Hard Work, Should Have

  "The Long March of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.

  Veronica Roth

  Dirty, People, Giving

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• The recording process [ for 'Dirty Work'] took longer than anticipated, because we kept going on tour in between the recording process to make sure that we were still pleasing all the fans across the world.

  Jack Barakat

  Dirty, Fans, World

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• I think the Sierra Club is the environmental group that has the best chance of really accomplishing things. It's well known, and it actually gets down to doing the dirty work of protecting the environment.

  Tom Scholz

  Dirty, Thinking, Environmental

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• Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.

  Paul Feig

  Nice, Dirty, People

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• Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.

  Terence McKenna

  Dirty, Buddhism, India

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• I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dirty, Men, Looks

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• Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Grateful, Dirty, Men

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• Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.

  Dave Barry

  God, Dirty, Kentucky

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• The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?

  Don Feder

  Running, War, Dirty

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• Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to have everyone hate us, to pull the rug from underneath the feet of the Diaspora Jews, so that they will be forced to run to us crying. Even if it means blowing up one or two synagogues here and there, I don’t care.

  Ariel Sharon

  Running, Hate, Dirty

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• I am tired of the warmakers making war with our children. I am tired of our tired troops being sent over to do the dirty work for mob bosses who are going to squeeze the life out of Iraq and not leave until every asset and every natural resource has been raped from the country. I am tired of seeing Iraqis burying their loved ones and hearing the reverberating screams of mothers all over our country who are being destroyed for the benefit of a very few.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Mother, Country, Children

  Personal Blog, January 15, 2007.

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• I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

  Nathan Fillion

  Dirty, Weekend, Hands

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