Dirty Quotes - Page 35

• My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Grief, Book, Writing

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• Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  "Hoarders : Stepping Out of Your TV Set Into Your Local Shelter" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

  Ted Nugent

  Naughty, Done, Pay

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

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• I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Naughty, Guitar

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• There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

  George Papandreou

  Thinking, Games, Needs

  "George Papandreou: The Greek Thinker". Interview with Nicole Itano, papandreou.gr. April 12, 2010.

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• 'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.

  Steven Pinker

  War, Numbers, Study

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• I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

  Roman Polanski

  Cutting, Men, Leaving

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

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• I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Daughter, Mother, Naughty

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• Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

  Gloria Steinem

  War, Army, Sisterhood

  Ms., Spring 1972

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• I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.

  Dorothy Stratten

  Beautiful, Sex, Believe

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• Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.

  James Surowiecki

  Running, Rap, Reality

  "Right Trade, Wrong Time". www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2003.

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• You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Inspiration, Talking

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• When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I'd come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked.

  Tina Turner

  Mother, Father, Animal

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2005.

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• Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

  John Updike

  Children, Golf, Past

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.148, Random House

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• All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!

  Dionne Warwick

  Naughty, Peers, Asking

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• When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

  Patrick Wilson

  Naughty, Guy, Want

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• Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and they enjoy it.

  Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

  Pigs, Enjoy

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• In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented during recessions? So was 'talking dirty.'

  Eugene Mirman

  Talking, Funny Graduation, Telephones

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• Street fights are unpredictable, dirty fights.

  Imi Lichtenfeld

  Art, Fighting, Unpredictable

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• I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Death, Believe

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.76, Vintage

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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, Marijuana, Jail

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• You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to family court where predatory professionals can turn a dirty buck off the atrocities committed against children.

  Anne Stevenson

  Jobs, Children, Atrocities Committed

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• I started wearing glasses last season but they're only for basketball games and dirty movies.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Glasses, Games

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• Just don't pollute something that's not dirty. I want my kids to be happy and I want them to be themselves. I was saying to a friend the other day, 'Remember, our kids are not us.' They're not. Sometimes we're trying to fix things that happened to us or projecting [onto them], and that's a terrible, terrible trap.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Kids, Trying, Want

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• God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and models how He wants us to pursue each other And He says to ordinary people like me and you that instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

  Bob Goff

  Eye, Dark, Doors

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