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• It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religion

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

  Faye Dunaway

  Daughter, Mother, Passion

  Faye Dunaway, Betsy Sharkey (1998). “Looking for Gatsby”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Wind, Challenges, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  "Still I Rise" l. 1 (1978)

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• Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

  John C. McGinley

  Character, Doctors, Two

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• Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Comeback, Insult

  Phoenix "Pornography and Obscenity" ch. 3 (1936)

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• If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

  Mike Schmidt

  Baseball, Effort, Black

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• I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

  Terry Gilliam

  Country, Lakes, Swamps

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• I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Awful, May, Common

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• Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Air, Years

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• I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.

  David James

  Break Up, War, Rocks

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.

  Willis Gaylord Clark

  Poverty, Reason Why, Should

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• In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Nature, Bird, Swamps

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• Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

  Charles Olson

  Roots, Clear

  Charles Olson (1997). “The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems”, p.106, Univ of California Press

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• Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Expression, People

  "Walking on Thin Ice: A Career-Spanning Conversation With Yoko Ono". Interview with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, www.spin.com. November 06, 2013.

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• Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

  George Eliot

  Children, Pain, Ignorance

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.109, ShandonPress

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• I like to dirt bike ride, four wheeler, go-kart.

  RJ Mitte

  Four Wheelers, Bike, Four

  "Actor RJ Mitte from Breaking Bad". "Ouch" with Mat Frazer and Liz Carr, www.bbc.co.uk. November 10, 2008.

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• You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

  Ben Vereen

  Light, Long, People

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• Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

  Theodore Roethke

  Giving Up, Breathing, Breaths

  Theodore Roethke, “Root Cellar”

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• I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Mother, Children, Should

  "Jeremy Clarkson lifts 'pointless' injunction against ex-wife" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2011.

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• What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

  Lord Byron

  Mind, Clay, Delicacy

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• I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

  Walt Whitman

  Looks, Want, Soil

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

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• Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.

  DMX

  People, Want, Treats

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 25, 2004.

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• Of all the paths you take in life,
  make sure a few of them are dirt.

  John Muir

  Nature, Hiking, Path

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• We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Dog, Cat, Army

  Witold Gombrowicz (2011). “Cosmos: A Novel”, p.104, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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