Dirty Quotes - Page 29

• Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.

  Francois Truffaut

  Masterpiece, Linen

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• You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with the dirty ones - and now you want to have sex?

  Lorrie Moore

  Sex, Want, Clean

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.202, Faber & Faber

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• Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Men, White, America

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

  Russell Baker

  Government, Political, Dawn

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.

  Phil Taylor

  Baseball, Cheer, Eye

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• The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.

  Vinod Khosla

  Hands, Firsts, Venture

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• It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sex, Writing, Impossible

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Second Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.195, Vintage

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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

  Prejudice, Common, Reason

  "Go Set a Watchman". Book by Harper Lee, July 14, 2015.

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• One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it are largely phantom profits. They are artifacts of currency devaluation, not an increase in efficiency or production of goods and services.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Secret, Rising, Littles

  "Phantom Profits Will Vanish As The Dollar Strengthens" by Charles Hugh Smith, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2012.

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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

  Organization, People, Achievement

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• My definition of art is whatever an artist calls art. Us speaking could be an artwork, us sitting in the near-dark in your kitchen beside the dirty dishes and smoking, me thinking of what to say next.

  Matthew Brannon

  Art, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was dirty and hot, and you're on a horse, all day. It was physical work, but there wasn't one of us - cast or crew - who didn't have a smile on our face. Even when it got real hard and tempers would rise because things would get difficult and the day would get late, we all loved the job and loved doing it. When you finished that day of work, everyone was looking around and going, "Yeah, that was a good day, man."

  James Badge Dale

  Horse, Jobs, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a physical person. That's why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all, and get real down and dirty.

  Paula Patton

  Real, Down And, Action

  Source: collider.com

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

  James Cook

  Thinking, Trying, Should

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• When a defiled man is born again, his habits are changed, his thoughts cleansed, his attitudes regenerated and elevated, his activities put in total order, and everything about him that was dirty, degenerate or reprobate is washed and made clean.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Attitude, Men, Order

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• A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks.

  Sharon Stone

  Beautiful, People, Rivalry

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• Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hands, Missing, Target

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• I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer.

  Klaus Nomi

  Jobs, Boys, Grocers

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• Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.

  Terence McKenna

  Buddhism, India, Crafts

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• The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way.

  Paul Schrader

  Silly, Emotional, Race

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• The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.

  Robert McKee

  Art, Writing, Keys

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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, Ambition, Thinking

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

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• War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  War, Hero, Mean

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

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• Don't call people names you dirty name caller you.

  Roseanne Barr

  Names, People

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• I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not. There are elements in the stories that I have no rapport with. I see dirty language, I see sleazy backgrounds; I see it reflected in the movies, the movies are comics to me. And I don't see a sleazy world. I see hope. I see a positive world.

  Jack Kirby

  Looks, Stories, Elements

  Source: kirbymuseum.org

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