Filthy Quotes

• Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Mean, Writing

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• Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'

  Orlando Bloom

  Dirty, Boys, Naughty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.

  Julia Roberts

  Hair, Accessories, Hats

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• I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

  Michael Moore

  Success, Causes, Rich

  "Moore Lies, Moore Fun at Stanford". Stanford Review, April 17, 2002.

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• They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Love, Men, History

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• To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Time, Character

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• Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

  Johnny Carson

  Use, Littles, Comedy

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• Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Uplifting, War, People

  "Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography".

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• Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

  Tadao Ando

  Cities, Paris, Looks

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• When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Smart, Dirty, Frustration

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• The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts - squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dad, Real, Hands

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

  Thomas Jordan Jarvis

  Drinking, Dirty, Men

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• When youre in that scene, you really wonder if this is all youre ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.

  Willie Aames

  Wonder, Scene, Knows

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• Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Ideas, Body, Nobility

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 6, 1799.

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• This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.

  A. L. Rowse

  Hate, Century, Guts

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• The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Cities, City Streets, Failing

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• I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

  Larry Holmes

  Agriculture, Dirt, Rich

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• And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.

  Erich von Stroheim

  Self, Rumor, Sincerity

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• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

  Fidel Castro

  Fake People, War, Hypocrisy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Maturity, People, Language

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Aug 18, 2013

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• Comedy today is definitely skewed to the filthy side, but it's not as hard today as I am more mature as a comedian and a person. I'm a grown up now doing a kid's job. Being a more mature Christian these days makes it easier than when I first started. Now I get to do shows of my choosing and a lot of folks attending the shows know my work and expect a clean show.

  Henry Cho

  Christian, Jobs, Kids

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• My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

  Marilyn Manson

  Desire, World, Ugly

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• Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Home, House, Coal

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.5, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, Imagination, Political

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.153, Harper Collins

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