Dirty Quotes - Page 17

• I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.

  Mark Teixeira

  Running, Home, Kids

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• People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

  Michael Patrick King

  Smart, People, Laughing

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• My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

  Martin McDonagh

  Fun, Real, Play

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• We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that is the real theater-totranscend them in the manner of play, bymeans of games and irony; it is good to be dirty and bearded, to have long hair,to look like a girl when one is a boy (and vice versa); one must put "inplay," show up, transform and reversethe systems which quietly order us about.

  Michel Foucault

  Girl, Real, Boys

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• Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Faces, Dirty Words, Happenings

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• It is curious, isn't it, that things you know well never look dirty and dilapidated-other people's old furniture looks shabby and moth-eaten. “I would never have that horrible old couch in my room,” you say. But your own old couch is every bit as bad and you are not disgusted with its appearance; it is your friend, you see, and you remember it when it was new and smart. Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.

  D.E. Stevenson

  Smart, Long, People

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• A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Cities, World, May

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• Black Bolt is typically a stoic leader, part of a larger cast of Inhumans who get their hands dirty in ways that he doesn’t.

  Charles Soule

  Hands, Leader, Black

  "Black Bolt Returns In Uncanny Inhumans". Interview with Tim O'Shea, news.marvel.com. January 7, 2015.

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• I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.

  Lily Tomlin

  Growing Up, Mean, Kids

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• Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

  Michael Parenti

  Lying, Practice, Silence

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.132, City Lights Books

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• One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.

  Michael Parenti

  Children, Thug, Gun

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• Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.

  G-Eazy

  Clothes, Black, Cash

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• I am allergic to domestic goddesses. Men would prefer a woman with a dirty mind to a clean house.

  Kathy Lette

  Men, House, Mind

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• Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

  David Nicholls

  Thinking, Hollywood Films, Wells

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• Some jobs are so dirty you can only send in someone who has the finely honed hatred of liberals acquired at elite universities to do them.

  Ann Coulter

  Jobs, Hatred, University

  "Ann Coulter on the Harriet Miers Nomination". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 13, 2005.

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• You have celebrities who are pushed to the brink of a public meltdown, and so the public thinks that every person in the public eye has dirty secrets that they're keeping, or isn't what they seem, or is masking it and faking sincerity, faking authenticity, faking being surprised at award shows when you win a Grammy.

  Taylor Swift

  Eye, Thinking, Winning

  "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2014.

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• How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Death, Self, Intelligence

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• Poetry and music I have banished,
  But the stupidity
  Of root, shoot, blossom or clay
  Makes no demand.
  I bend my body to the spade
  Or grope with a dirty hand.

  William Butler Yeats

  Music, Roots, Hands

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no release
  In a bodkin or disease,
  Nor can there be a work so great
  As that which cleans man's dirty slate.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Art, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.179

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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, Kentucky, Wife

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• With girls, everything looks great on the surface. But beware of drawers that won't open. They contain a three-month supply of dirty underwear, unwashed hose, and rubber bands with blobs of hair in them.

  Erma Bombeck

  Girl, Hair, Underwear

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

  Richard Dawkins

  Self, Kind, Reductionism

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene”, p.172, Oxford University Press

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• Tell X that speech is not dirty silence
  Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.

  Wallace Stevens

  Silence, Speech, Made

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.157, Knopf

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• Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.

  Dorothy Parker

  Mean, Ivory, Glasses

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• [Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

  Albert Camus

  Cities, Paris, White

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