Sleazes Quotes

• Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.

  Dick Cavett

  Trying, Bags, Mccain

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.173, Macmillan

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• There but for the grace of God, goes God.

  Winston Churchill

  Sarcastic, Grace, Insult

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.

  John Bradford

  Grace, Insult, God Is Not Great

  "Problems in the Relations of God and Man" by Clement Charles Julian Webb, (p. 107), 1911.

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• To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Office, World, Socialism

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.76, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

  Mason Cooley

  Elegance, Refutation, Vulgarity

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• Once a decision is made to be tasteful and risk-free, all spark, soul, variety, sleaze, spontaneity and fun go right out the window

  Cintra Wilson

  Fun, Decision, Soul

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• Gore Vidal said "Nixon is us, we are Nixon." I think we have to acknowledge that combination of idealism and sleaze; we want to be better than we are, and we sometimes don't face up to the real questions.

  Oliver Stone

  Real, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I had a very important personal point to make with this song [I Want Your Sex]. I just hated the idea that lust and forbidden excitement could only come with sleaze and strangers.

  George Michael

  Song, Sex, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

  Rick Owens

  Together, Literature, Opera

  "Rick Owens Interviews Eugene Rabkin, Founder of StyleZeitgeist, On the State of Fashion". Interview With Rick Owens, www.highsnobiety.com.

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• People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.

  Marc Almond

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• How about this John Edwards thing? Imagine that, a personal injury attorney who turns out to be a sleaze ball. Who could have seen that coming?

  Jay Leno

  Balls, Imagine, Injury

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• Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.

  Edward Abbey

  Law, Space, Alaska

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

  Bette Midler

  Tacky, Ease, Lasts

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• This is a sleaze bag murdering dog and he [O.J. Simpson] has played us for fools. And the worst thing he did was exacerbate the racial divide in this country. He divided black and white America.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Country, Dog, Black And White

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

  Chuck Eddy

  Hair Metal, Radio, Albums

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• Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

  Frank Zappa

  Media, Guy, Politics

  Song: The Central Scrutinizer

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• Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label "Senator Sleaze." D'Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. "There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues," he said.

  William Greider

  New York, Punishment, Grace

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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