George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."
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Drake
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless."
Zora Neale Hurston
Novelist, Anthropologist
"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."
Ice Cube
Rapper, Actor
"If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that."
Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?" To this the famous preacher replied, "With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives."
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"Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty."
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"Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats"
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"But whats it all worth, cant take it when you under this earth Rich men died and tried, but none of it worked They just rob your grave, Id rather be alive and paid Before my numbers called, historys made Somell fall, but I rise, thug or die Makin choices, that determine my future under the sky To rob steal or kill, Im wondering why Its a dirty game, is any man worthy of fame? Much to success to ya, even if you wish me the opposite Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is."
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"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't."
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"A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste"
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"Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet."
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"Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it."
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"The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object."
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"You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children."
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"I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts."
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"I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean."
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"When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, "But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty." I told her that was just the point - mine wouldn't be."
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"Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already."
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"My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness—what old and hard-worked staleness, masquerading as the all-new!"
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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."
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"Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work."
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"Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about."
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"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters."
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"If we are pure at heart, we would not wish one person well and not another. We should see there is no difference between one person or another. Then our pure thoughts can be evenly spread between all people. Sunshine can reflect on clean water but not on dirty water. God's light will be reflected by those persons with a pure heart."
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