Dirty Secrets Quotes

• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• You wanna look pretty though, in my video

  Ol' Dirty Bastard

  Hip Hop, Video, Looks

  Song: Got Your Money

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• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Sarcastic, Depressing

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• Still, it's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Nice, Secret, Persons

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• There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

  Chuck Tanner

  Leadership, Patience, Secret

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• When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

  Loretta Lynn

  Country, Dirty, Naughty

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.10, Vintage

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• Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret.

  Richard Jenkins

  Dirty, Secret, Adults

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• Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

  Ralph Nader

  Sex, Dirty, Reality

  "Talking Dirty". Book by Carole McKenzie (p. 46), January 2, 2014.

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• That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Dirty, Past, Secret

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• Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Dirty, Secret, Information

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• My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody."

  Patricia McConnell

  Husband, Dirty, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel. I haven't written very much of it. That's the dirty secret of the Cullman center: The writers don't write their fiction there, they just do their research.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Dirty, Writing, Historical

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.

  Robert McKee

  Art, Dirty, Writing

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• 'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

  Frank Miller

  Fun, Dirty, Naughty

  "Black and white and bloody" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2005.

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• We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

  Henry Cisneros

  Dirty, Racism, Secret

  1993 In US News and World Report, 19 Apr.

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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

  Dirty, Eye, Thinking

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

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• My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them.

  Steve Martin

  Dirty, House, Design

  Steve Martin (2004). “The pleasure of my company”

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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, Dirty, Cat

  "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 hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Hate, Dirty, Book

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