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• How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

  Will Durst

  Sex, Humorous, Dirty

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• But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Mean, Civilization

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• I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

  Venus Williams

  Friends, Sports, Party

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• No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and support views that are upheld and defended by many law-abiding citizens, the only way to tackle them is through democratic debate.

  Julian Baggini

  Views, Law, Evil

  "Speakers' corner" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2008.

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• Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long.

  Julian Baggini

  Fall, Long, Culture

  "The science of ignorance" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2008.

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• We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Viruses, Type, Influenza

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• I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

  Aldous Huxley

  Being Myself, Brave New World Happiness

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• There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, "Go in and do this nasty job." Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.

  James F. Amos

  Jobs, Marine, Mind

  "Reshaping Your Corps". Interview with Bob Drury, www.menshealth.com. June 2, 2011.

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• I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Dirty, Naughty

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• Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.

  Glenn Beck

  Morning, America, Four

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• A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

  Mel Brooks

  Mustache, Needs, Cinema

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• And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps on the breast, the coughs that have turned nasty. In the Marie Curie Ward on the fourth floor are the kids with cancer. Their bodies secretly and slowly being consumed. And then there's the mortuary, where the dead lie in refrigerated drawers with name tags on their feet.

  Jenny Downham

  Cancer, Lying, Kids

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• I met Pendragon when I made the journey to the far desert. He is from the tribe known as...as..." Loor was scrambling. Bokka didn't know about the Travelers. I had to bail her out. Yankees," I said. "The Yankees tribe." Hey, what can I say? It was the first thing that came to mind. "It's a strong tribe," I added. "Respected by all...except for our mortal enemies, the Sox tribe. They hate us. Especially the Red ones. Cannibals. Nasty characters.

  D. J. MacHale

  Strong, Hate, Character

  D.J. MacHale (2012). “Pendragon Books 6-10: The Rivers of Zadaa; The Quillan Games; The Pilgrims of Rayne; Raven Rise; The Soldiers of Halla”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

  Darren Shan

  Truth, Real, Hero

  Darren Shan (2012). “Vampire Blood Trilogy (The Saga of Darren Shan)”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.

  Julian Fellowes

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• You don't wake up in the morning and think, I'm going to be so bad today. I'm going to be a nasty villain to everyone. No, you just wake up and do your own thing.

  Stanley Weber

  Morning, Thinking, Wake Up

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• Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Bullying, Thinking, People

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

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• I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Thinking, People, Tea

  "Katherine Jenkins: this much I know". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.

  Joan Jett

  Crazy, People, Judgment

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• If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.

  Annie Lennox

  Powerful, Smart, Writing

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• I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.

  Christian Louboutin

  Men, Talking, Shoes

  "Sole Mate" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

  John Lydon

  Sorry, Rude

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• Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

  John Lydon

  Years, Cynical, Television

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• For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

  Djuna Barnes

  People, Life Is

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• The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

  Frank Miller

  Dirty, Hero, Artist

  "Fictional character: Penelope Garcia". "Criminal Minds: True Night" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2007.

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