Dirty Quotes - Page 24

• The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

  Francis Bacon

  Letting Go, Sun, Chastity

  Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.62, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I like movies that work on two levels - like The Simpsons, kids can watch it and adults can watch it. Teenagers can watch Hostel and if they want to see a blood and guts violent movie they're going to have a great time. They're going to scream and yell, it's a great date movie because they're going to squeeze their date and their date is probably going to be too scared to go home... so you take them home and put on Dirty Dancing and everybody wins.

  Eli Roth

  Teenager, Home, Kids

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Risk is not a dirty word.

  Walter Wriston

  Risk, Dirty Words

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• The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Average, Secret

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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

  Peter Cook

  Done, Dirty Words, Knows

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• To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression.

  Aleister Crowley

  Religious, Sin, Oppression

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• I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller - my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that's going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen's lavatory.

  David Niven

  Dream, Wall, Writing

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

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• Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido.

  William S. Burroughs

  Feet, Veins, Shame

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting?

  John Mayer

  Cameras, Gauges, Would Be

  "Nikon Podcast #3: Exclusive Interview with John Mayer". Interview Mark Ellwood, 2007.

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• My solo album is different from the Black Eyed Peas albums because I'm a singer first and foremost. There are more ballads and more intimacy between me and the listener because sometimes when you're in a group you don't have space to air out your dirty laundry.

  Fergie

  Air, Space, Black

  Source: www.billboard.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, Book, Reading

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• The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Law, Construction Sites

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• Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.

  Morris Chestnut

  Air, Perfect, Rooms

  "Interview: Morris Chestnut and Faizon Love". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 12, 2007.

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• I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Naughty, Mind

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• Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Special, Never Settle

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he’d have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children’s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What’s the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Running, Children, Father

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.303, Modern Library

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• That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it – the total passion for the total height – you’re incapable of anything less.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.572, Penguin

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• you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.

  Tim O'Brien

  Real, War, Home

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

  Banksy

  Role Models, Roles, Rats

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough.

  Robin Hobb

  Men, Rivers, Dwelling

  Robin Hobb (2013). “The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy: Shaman’s Crossing, Forest Mage, Renegade’s Magic”, p.102, HarperCollins UK

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• I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Strong, Hurt, School

  World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

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• There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

  Truman Capote

  Faces, Shame

  "In Cold Blood".

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• The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, War, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4181, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better." -said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X

  Malcolm X

  Glasses, Water, Muhammad

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• It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.

  Ayn Rand

  Courage, Pain, Discipline

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.571, Penguin

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