Dirty Words Quotes

• There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

  Lenny Bruce

  Dirty, Mind, Dirty Minds

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• Many of the wonderful achievements of the 20th century were the result of the pursuit of profits. Unfortunately, demagoguery has led to profits becoming a dirty word. Nonprofit is seen as more righteous, particularly when people pompously stand before us and declare, 'We're a nonprofit organization.'

  Walter E. Williams

  Dirty, Organization, People

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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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• Please make sure everyone knows how much their messages mean to me. They have added greatly to my peace of mind. I only wish some of the writers would take a more positive approach to the menace of cancer. I've got it, sure; but I'm not afraid to use the word. Some of them act like it's a dirty word. That's the wrong attitude. We should all bring it out in the open, recognize that it exists, and fight it! Cancer is everybody's enemy. We can't 'think' an enemy out of existence by ignoring it.

  Gary Cooper

  Attitude, Cancer, Dirty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.

  Kevin Rudd

  Dirty, Compassion, Views

  Rudd's first speech as Labor leader, The Australian, December 5, 2006.

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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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• There's nothing wrong with options. Options are everywhere. In movies, in sports. Options is not a dirty word. I need to pay my overheads, you know. I invest a lot of money developing a fighter and then I deserve to reap the rewards.

  Don King

  Sports, Dirty, Boxing

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• Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.

  Ken Russell

  Dirty, Reality, People

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• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.

  Dan Stevens

  Fun, Hate, Dirty

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

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• The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations that are good unclean fun. A popular venture that is keen to paste—épater—everybody (not just the bourgeoisie), it is the art of the single entendre. Highly staged low life, it guffaws at the pious, the prudish, and the priggish. High cockalorum versus high decorum…. The introduction here, like the translator’s note, tells well the story of the comic tales, anonymous for the most part, usually two or three hundred lines long, of which about 160 exist.

  Christopher Ricks

  Art, Fun, Dirty

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• I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word.

  Nora Johnson

  Dirty, Divorce, Doubt

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• Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in jail. I wonder why that is? The only reason could be: To Serve the Devil - Pleasure! Pleasure, which is a dirty word in Christian culture.

  Lenny Bruce

  Christian, Dirty, Marijuana

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• On Girls I like being a mouthpiece for the issues I think young females face today. It’s always shocking when people question whether it’s a feminist show. How could a show about women exploring women not be? Feminism isn’t a dirty word. It’s not like we’re a deranged group who think women should take over the planet, raise our young on our own and eliminate men from the picture. Feminism is about women having all the rights that men have.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Dirty, Men

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• With the horses, you can’t let them call the shot part of the time and then you call the shot part of the time. They’re not really designed to be your leader, but they can be a great partner, but you need to lead, and they need to respect you and respond with respect. Don’t think of respect as a dirty word. You need to respect them as well.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Dirty, Thinking

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• When people talk about wanting to have children someday, what they really mean is that they want babies. Nobody wants an angry adolescent. Nobody wants an obnoxious seven-year-old trying to wear out dirty words they just learned in school that day. What they really want is cute, adorable babies who love you and need you. The bad stuff is just the price you agree to pay for having the good stuff.

  Paul Reiser

  Cute, Baby, Children

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• I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It's just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Believe, Dirty, Ambition

  Reese Witherspoon's Speech at Glamour's Women of the Year Awards, www.glamour.com. November 9, 2015.

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• Those who think profit is a dirty word should try to make one.

  James Cook

  Dirty, Thinking, Trying

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

  Ron Fournier

  Dirty, Naughty, Compromise

  "Why Gov. Christie Is Presidential Timber". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 9, 2013.

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• Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

  Don Hewitt

  Dirty, Naughty, Long

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• Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Dirty, Mean

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• My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Dirty

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