Dirty Words Quotes - Page 2

• The jokes were perfect! Then George Carlin started talking about the seven dirty words you can't say on television, then it evolved into social commentary.

  Jay Mohr

  Dirty, Talking, Perfect

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

  Camilla Lackberg

  Dirty, Book, Years

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• "Exercise" is such a dirty word in my household that whenever I even think of it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Inspirational, Dirty, Exercise

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• For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.

  Johnny Depp

  Dream, Dirty, Ambition

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• Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing. If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don't like.

  Betty White

  Retirement, Dirty, Asking

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• I think if we can't use the word feminist, if it's some kind of taboo or dirty word, or means you're ugly, or you're angry, or you're not dateable [laughs], then you've just reduced the language by a whole concept.

  Ani DiFranco

  Dirty, Mean, Thinking

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview by Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• It's a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon "launder" became a dirty word.

  William Zinsser

  Sarcastic, Dirty, Sarcasm

  "On Writing Well". Book by William Zinsser (Chapter 7: Usage, p. 47), 1976.

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• I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.

  Edward Kennedy

  Dirty, America, People

  Edward M. Kennedy' Speech at Liberty Baptist College, www.washingtonpost.com. August 26, 2009.

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• In obstetrics and gynecology, the term abortionist is still a dirty word.

  Joe Thompson

  Dirty, Gynecology, Term

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• I'm most enthused by the younger people...and I wouldn't have said that two years ago.  I spoke at two college campuses (in Wisconsin) and the students weren't interested.  Public Service was a dirty word to them. Now they see it differently.  They see you can come together and have a positive impact.  I'm encouraged because they now see that we can win on these issues.

  Ed Garvey

  Dirty, Winning, College

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• Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

  Harper Lee

  Dirty, Prejudice, Common

  "Go Set a Watchman". Book by Harper Lee, July 14, 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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• 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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• For Christmas when I was about four I got given 'Can the can' by Susie Quatro, so that was the first record I got. And I got Skyhooks "Ego is not a Dirty Word.... I was sorta listening to the Beatles and stuff the whole time since I was about ten anyway, then I started getting into Kiss and David Bowie at the same time

  Bernard Fanning

  Dirty, Kissing, Ego

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

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• Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of depth. I'm sure this is true in some cases, but on the whole I can't accept this as a vision of art. There's something so cynical about assuming your audience is unintelligent or that artists shouldn't care about their viewers.

  Dario Robleto

  Art, Dirty, Reflection

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior, and excesses have occurred in the opposite direction, in de-regulating other types of behavior. As a matter of fact, if they continue to regulate the airlines, we might have safer skies, and if they slack off on the radio, we might have better radio. If they just use it as a threat, eventually there's going to be another test case like the one that the 7 dirty words ruling came out of, and basically, its extortion.

  Frank Zappa

  Dirty, Opposites, Sky

  Source: afka.net

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• Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Dirty, Library, Information

  Henry Mintzberg (2009). “Managers Not Mbas: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a lot of people like you. It's become a dirty word, and I don't necessarily think it needs to be.

  Phil Collins

  Dirty, Mean, Successful

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book - the pleasure it bring us, something too many boil down to a dirty word: FUN.

  Jim Trelease

  Fun, Dirty, Book

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• Risk is not a dirty word.

  Walter Wriston

  Dirty, Risk

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• I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be labeled a feminist. I consider myself a person who has throughout my entire life stood up for myself. It's never been my ambition to be someone who takes a backseat to anything. I'm not a male basher at all. I divide people into assholes and non-assholes, and that's genderless. I encounter sexism everyday.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Dirty, Ambition, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Real, Dirty

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Dec 17, 2015

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