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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• 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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• Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.

  Wayne Brady

  Everyday, Happens

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• Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Doors, Noise, Disputes

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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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• Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

  Federico Fellini

  Real, Lines, Imaginary

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• Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery, women from exploitation. Businesses can be started, homes built, communities formed, religions practiced, educations pursued. But liberals aren't very interested in such real and material freedoms. They have a more innocent - not to say toddlerlike - idea of freedom. Liberals want the freedom to put anything into their mouths, to say bad words and to expose their private parts in art museums.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Art, Real, Home

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• He said a bad word. Do you want to know what it was? It started with F. It's not the one you're thinking of, though. To the other one. The one that ends with P. do you want to know what it was? It was troop." She frowned. "Wait that's not a word.

  Derek Landy

  Thinking, Waiting, Want

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• Granny Weatherwaz was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, not if he wanted to wake up in the morning the same shape as he went to bed.

  Terry Pratchett

  Morning, Bed, Wake Up

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Fang laughed as he shoved Vane away 'Man, quit hugging on me. You are a perv." Vane punched him in the arm. "You're such an a**hole," Trace gasped. "Daddy said a bad word!" Fang said "You tell him pup. Keep your daddy straight.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Daddy, Hug

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• Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place. Naughty-naughty" Twinkle said. Oh shut up!" Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. "Why don't you grow up?

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Growing Up, Naughty, Light

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• and then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi

  Ally Carter

  Doubt, Said

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• There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

  George Carlin

  Intention, Bad Thoughts, Bad Intentions

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• It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Billions

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• As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.

  Tom Felton

  Names, Dames, Nervous

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• If you have only a little capital and are young today, there are fewer opportunities than when I was young. Back then, we had just come out of a depression. Capitalism was a bad word. There had been abuses in the 1920s. A joke going around then was the guy who said, 'I bought stock for my old age and it worked - in six months, I feel like an old man!' "It's tougher for you, but that doesn't mean you won't do well - it just may take more time. But what the heck, you may live longer."

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, Opportunity, Men

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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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• If God does exist, it's in music and in art, I think there's more spiritually in what I do than in a lot of religious groups judging, especially in the way they've treated me in the past couple of years. I've grown tired of talking about religion. It's time for me to move on. I'm trying to redefine the idea of spirituality and make it now such a bad word for myself, because I find that I sound really stupid saying it sometimes

  Marilyn Manson

  Religious, Art, Couple

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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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• A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

  Orson Welles

  Encouragement, Needs, Colleagues

  Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.

  Neil Gaiman

  Block, Believe, Knowing

  "Interview with Neil Gaiman". Writers and Artists Interview, www.writersandartists.co.uk.

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