Dirty Words Quotes

• There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

  Lenny Bruce

  Dirty, Mind, Dirty Minds

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• I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.

  Barbara Bush

  Hate, Dirty, Naughty

  "Early Start" with Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin, edition.cnn.com. March 6, 2012.

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• Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

  Miranda Richardson

  Dirty, Feminism

  "Miranda Richardson: 'I hate our sneering attitude to success'". Interview With Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2013.

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• Socialism isn't a dirty word; it just means sharing. Really, it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity.

  Russell Brand

  Dirty, Mean, Arms

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.257, Ballantine Books

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• Busy is an opportunity, not a dirty word.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Dirty, Opportunity, Busy

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• I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Dirty, Looks, Politician

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• Its important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know thats a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.

  Louise Leakey

  Dirty, Past, People

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• Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

  Steven Erikson

  Dirty, Ambition, Compromise

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.17, Random House

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• Well, at least I’m not a stubborn, button-pushing, Prius-driving, chip-on-your-shoulder-holding, ‘stay-at-home-mom’-is-the-eighth-dirty-word-thinking feminazi!

  Julie James

  Mom, Dirty, Home

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• It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Dirty, Naughty, Thinking

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• Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

  David Nicholls

  Dirty, Thinking, Hollywood Films

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• I didn't know dirty words could be done that artfully.

  Peter Cook

  Dirty, Done, Knows

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• When you're in @#*!#-ing hell, your forehead can feel a wee bit feverish. (By the way, that's the way my wife actually curses. She doesn't use dirty words; she'll literally say "asterisk, pound sign, exclamation point, the-letter-'A'-with-a-circle-around-it, asterisk, asterisk, asterisk.")

  Paul Reiser

  Funny, Dirty, Exclamation Points

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• We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.

  Alice Cooper

  Education, Dirty, Math

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• When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Smart, Dirty, Frustration

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• You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes.

  Tommy Smothers

  Dirty, Political, Atheism

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• Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. Use is a dirty word only when theres an imbalance in the relationship.

  Warren Farrell

  Dirty, Men, Worry

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• When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

  Lina Wertmuller

  Freedom, Real, Dirty

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• Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dirty, Self, Kind

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene”, p.172, Oxford University Press

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• Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Dirty, Faces, Happenings

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• Power is America's last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex - than it is to talk about power.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Sex, Dirty, Power

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• Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Art, Dirty

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• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Dirty, Men, Thinking

  "Totally Awesome 80s: A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of that Decadent Decade". Book by Matthew Rettenmund, October 15, 1996.

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• I hate how box office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don’t see a box office failure blamed on men. I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that. I guess it’s because we live in a patriarchal society, where feminism is a dirty word.

  Ellen Page

  Hate, Dirty, Destiny

  "I don't want to sound like a piece of poop, but". Interview with Helen Pidd, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2008.

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• Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.

  Kevin Rudd

  Dirty, Compassion, Vocabulary

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