Bad Word Quotes

• We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

  John Guare

  Past, World, States

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• I like people who can make you laugh without using vulgarity, or bad words.

  Michael Jackson

  People, Laughing, Vulgarity

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• Bad words don't exist, but words with bad intentions behind.

  Roberto Fontanarrosa

  Intention, Bad Intentions, Behinds

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• Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Elites

  "Aaron Sorkin At Golden Globes: 'Elite Is Not A Bad Word, It’s An Aspirational One'". www.mediaite.com. January 17, 2011.

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• I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

  Ellen Page

  Powerful, People, Feminist

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• I don’t want to react because I don’t want them to know it’s a bad word, but I want to encourage them to talk so I’m like, ‘That’s good!’

  Jerry O'Connell

  Want, Knows

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• A bad word that I can't say that starts with f.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  I Can

  "Overheard backstage at the Oscars" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.

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• I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

  Hugh Jackman

  Dad, Selfish, Gentleman

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• It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

  Toni Morrison

  Love You, Humans, Human Beings

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• John McCain from the very beginning has been unflinchingly loyal to Sarah Palin. He has never thrown her under the bus. He has never conceded it was a bad decision to pick her. He has never ever said a bad word against her.

  Rachel Maddow

  Decision, Loyal, Said

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad word.' You know bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions.

  George Carlin

  People, Groups, Use

  "George Carlin (1937–2008): Legendary Comedian Challenged Status Quo Throughout 50-Year Career". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 24, 2008.

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• When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

  Lois Lowry

  Divorce, Racism, Attention

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• "Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it. Jazz is a process. Jazz is a creative process. It's not so much a genre, but a way of expression.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Creative, Musician, Jazz

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• In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

  Helmut Newton

  Art, Vocabulary, Two

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• I wouldn't let anyone say a bad word about Cheryl Cole.

  Luke Pasqualino

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• Being honest, if I had a daughter I wouldn't want her listening to a Nicki Minaj CD until she was a certain age. Even when I meet my fans and they tell me they are 12, I cringe a little. I always say, 'Listen. I don't want you saying the bad words, put school first.'

  Nicki Minaj

  Daughter, School, Cds

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• For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

  Edmund Spenser

  Evil, Deeds, May

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• Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term; drop it from your vocabulary; trust nothing to luck, nor expect anything from it; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune.

  John Angell James

  Mean, Fate, Errors

  John Angell James (1851). “The young man's friend and guide through life to immortality”, p.180

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• "Immigrant" has become a dirty word. It is not a bad word. It's not a curse or a swear word. It's not a dirty word and it's nothing to be ashamed about. I am proud to be a second generation immigrant. I am proud of my heritage. We are all immigrants and we need to start owning the concept.

  Nadine Shah

  Dirty, Proud, Ashamed

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.

  Gloria Steinem

  Long, Humanist, Understood

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Names, People

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I will never say a bad word about 'One Tree Hill'. The entire shape of my world changed because of that show, so I'll always be very affectionate toward it.

  Hilarie Burton

  Tree, World, Shapes

  "EXCLUSIVE Hilarie Burton on 'Tree Hill' exit: 'It wasn't a rash decision'". Interview with Michael Ausiello, ew.com. May 14, 2009.

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• I want to start saying bad words all the time!

  Chelsea Handler

  Want

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• Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

  Dennis Hopper

  Art, Taken, Names

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• I grew up in a very responsible, social, Democratic community, and destruction was a bad word. But, in California, destruction is a rad word. The juxtaposition of the two is really what made me into who I am today, in my battles with how fun it is to be bad, and how wrong it is to be bad.

  Rie Rasmussen

  Fun, Who I Am, Two

  Source: collider.com

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