Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"Throw dirt on my name, and I still come out clean"
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Dirt
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John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt."
Jay-Z
Rapper, Businessman
"I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt."
e. e. cummings
Poet, Painter
"Because you aren't afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)"
Larry Holmes
Boxer
"I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich."
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"Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower"
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"We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness."
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"Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt."
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"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles."
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"Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up."
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"What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."
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"When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND."
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"It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."
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"Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it."
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"To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar."
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"I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe."
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"Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?"
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"A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window."
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"As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful, and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger, unless they are an American."
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"What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds."
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"People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about."
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"The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers."
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"I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context."
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"Treat a man like dirt-he produces flowers."
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"If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab"
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