Dirty Quotes - Page 14

• A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Ruins, Littles

  Letter to A.N. Kanaev, March 26, 1883.

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• As far as feminism is concerned ... the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially incompatible. They must be tamed. They must be tempered, 'cause men are naturally brutes. They fight. They sweat. They expel gas. They're dirty. They get into fights. Ewww! And we've got to somehow reprogram all of that out, because otherwise women will be in constant peril.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Fighting, Men, Sweat

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• Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible.

  R. D. Laing

  Children, War, Long

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Angel, Mafia, Hell

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 128), 1975.

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• Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing. If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don't like.

  Betty White

  Retirement, Asking, Want

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• Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Hail, Masters

  My Lady's Lamentation" l. 165 (written 1728)

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• A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Clever, Letters, Matter

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• What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.

  Pauline Kael

  Play, Righteous, Disgusting

  Pauline Kael (1989). “Hooked”, E P Dutton

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• I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all.

  Kenneth Williams

  Kings, Class, World

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• Like many men, I can never find anything that I'm looking for, even when I'm actually looking at it. In a fridge, I think milk is actually invisible to the male eye. And so, it turns out, are dirty great holes in the fence.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  "Not fair – donkeys get all the breaks" by Jeremy Clarkson, www.thetimes.co.uk. September 6, 2009.

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• There were nude pictures... a lot of it is erotic or sexual. But I don't view my collection as dirty in any way. I view it as art.

  Paul Reubens

  Art, Views, Erotic

  "Pee-wee actor denies paedophile claims". www.abc.net.au. April 1, 2004.

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• As a girl, I was always told I was nasty or dirty if I was sexual in any way. Americans are such prudes.

  Jessica Alba

  Girl, Prudes, Way

  "Fantasy figure" by Allison Glock, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Book, Reading

  "Bananas". www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Hunting, Looks, Wells

  'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 21

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• I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot tell what I want. My feet are sunk in the black swampy land, but I am a lover. I love life. In the end love shall save me.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Love Life, Land, Feet

  Sherwood Anderson (2006). “Mid-American Chants”, p.3, Quale Press

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• Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Library, Information, Helping

  Henry Mintzberg (2009). “Managers Not Mbas: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.

  Edna Ferber

  Baseball, Men, Skulls

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• The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber was fired for continuing to use the traditional term "ballcock" for the toilet flotation unit, instead of the new politically correct term, sanitized of sexual suggestiveness. This is insane. We are back to the Victorian era, when table legs had to be draped lest they put the thought of ladies' legs into someone's dirty mind.

  Camille Paglia

  Hands, Mind, Insane

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Reality, America, Accountability

  "Pssst... Nobody Loves a Torturer". www.newsweek.com. November 13, 2005.

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• The pigeons are shitting on George M. Cohan. I shoo them off. They fly up and perch on his hat. Cohan would've never given his regards to Broadway if he saw how dirty they kept his statue in Duffy Square. New Yorkers walk right by. Nobody cares.

  John Lahr

  Squares, Pigeons, Saws

  John Lahr (2013). “The Autograph Hound: A Novel”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Home, Wind Blowing, Dust

  Song: Devils and Dust, Album: Devils & Dust, 2005

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• By giving women training to sue a company for a 'hostile environment' if someone tells a dirty joke, we are training women to run to the Government as Substitute Husband (or Father). This gets companies to fear women, but not to respect women. The best preparation we can give women to succeed in the workplace is the preparation to overcome barriers rather than to sue: successful people don't sue, they succeed.

  Warren Farrell

  Running, Husband, Father

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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• It's a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon "launder" became a dirty word.

  William Zinsser

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Irony

  "On Writing Well". Book by William Zinsser (Chapter 7: Usage, p. 47), 1976.

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• Sometimes magazines will take artist's creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos. For example: the whole "Dirty" thing. Do you think I wear chaps to the grocery store?

  Christina Aguilera

  Artist, Thinking, Choices

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• If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. It's just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Golden Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Pain, Ideas, Creative

  "Slumdogs who seek success". The Independent, News, p. 30, January 16, 2009.

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