Dirty Quotes - Page 19

• Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids has grown up thinking trance is the shittiest music since country and western.

  Paul van Dyk

  Country, Kids, Thinking

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• And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?

  John Ruskin

  Land, Bye, Earth

  John Ruskin (1865). “Sesame and Lilies, etc”, p.69

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• Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

  John Ruskin

  Pay, Clean, Pleasant

  'Sesame and Lilies' (1865) lecture 1 'Of Kings' Treasuries' 30, note

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• Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"

  Frank Herbert

  People, Leave Me Alone, Letters

  "Introduction" to "New World or No World" by Frank Herbert, 1970.

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• I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

  John Lennon

  Girl, Boys, Parent

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• Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who took his dirty money, voted for his corrupt leadership, or sat silently while their party has sold our government to the highest bidder.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Government, Issues

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• As a girl, I was always told I was nasty or dirty if I was sexual in any way. Americans are such prudes.

  Jessica Alba

  Girl, Prudes, Way

  "Fantasy figure" by Allison Glock, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• There were nude pictures... a lot of it is erotic or sexual. But I don't view my collection as dirty in any way. I view it as art.

  Paul Reubens

  Art, Views, Erotic

  "Pee-wee actor denies paedophile claims". www.abc.net.au. April 1, 2004.

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• America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Reality, America, Accountability

  "Pssst... Nobody Loves a Torturer". www.newsweek.com. November 13, 2005.

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• Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Angel, Mafia, Hell

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 128), 1975.

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• A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Clever, Letters, Matter

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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

  Library, Information, Helping

  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 am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot tell what I want. My feet are sunk in the black swampy land, but I am a lover. I love life. In the end love shall save me.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Love Life, Land, Feet

  Sherwood Anderson (2006). “Mid-American Chants”, p.3, Quale Press

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• Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Hunting, Looks, Wells

  'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 21

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• Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.

  Edna Ferber

  Baseball, Men, Skulls

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• Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Hail, Masters

  My Lady's Lamentation" l. 165 (written 1728)

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• The pigeons are shitting on George M. Cohan. I shoo them off. They fly up and perch on his hat. Cohan would've never given his regards to Broadway if he saw how dirty they kept his statue in Duffy Square. New Yorkers walk right by. Nobody cares.

  John Lahr

  Squares, Pigeons, Saws

  John Lahr (2013). “The Autograph Hound: A Novel”, p.58, Open Road Media

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

  William Zinsser

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Irony

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

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• Sometimes magazines will take artist's creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos. For example: the whole "Dirty" thing. Do you think I wear chaps to the grocery store?

  Christina Aguilera

  Artist, Thinking, Choices

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• By giving women training to sue a company for a 'hostile environment' if someone tells a dirty joke, we are training women to run to the Government as Substitute Husband (or Father). This gets companies to fear women, but not to respect women. The best preparation we can give women to succeed in the workplace is the preparation to overcome barriers rather than to sue: successful people don't sue, they succeed.

  Warren Farrell

  Running, Husband, Father

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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• In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount of this research and development work ourselves. We just have to keep our own hands dirty to command the professional respect of the contractor personnel engaged with actual design, shop and testing work.

  Wernher von Braun

  Moon, Hands, Order

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• If the windows of your spirit are dirty, and streaked, covered with matter foreign to them, then the world as you look out of them will be dirty and streaked and out of order. … Go wash your windows.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Order, Looks, World

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• The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber was fired for continuing to use the traditional term "ballcock" for the toilet flotation unit, instead of the new politically correct term, sanitized of sexual suggestiveness. This is insane. We are back to the Victorian era, when table legs had to be draped lest they put the thought of ladies' legs into someone's dirty mind.

  Camille Paglia

  Hands, Mind, Insane

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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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, Asking, Want

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• I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Book, Reading

  "Bananas". www.imdb.com. 1971.

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