Dirty Quotes
Lines that admit the messier, less polished truth.
"Dirty" here mostly means honest rather than clean: a wry joke about disgusting hands, a candid admission that ordinary fund investors often significantly underperform the funds they're actually invested in, and a young writer's ambition to produce a great, unvarnished American novel. For more sharp-edged wit, see Dirt.
I like golden-era hip-hop because they were recording on a 2-inch tape. There was dirty, raw sampling. It's nasty. It has a vibe to it.
The testimony of former abortion workers can help persuade lawmakers to create fair laws that protect women from dirty abortion facilities.
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Dirt Quotes
I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.
Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be.
Dirtiest Quotes
The Europeans do tend to delegitimize Israel and turn Israel into a dirty word, which is unforgivable.
I was influenced by American movies of the '60s and '70s, especially Don Siegel's 'Dirty Harry' and the films of Sam Peckinpah. And, of course, a lot of the film noir movies of the '40s.
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
I only fight clean fighters. I'll fight anybody in the UFC that's clean. Or dirty. Or clean.
Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
Dirty Work Quotes
I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.
Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are illicit; they're dirty.
A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
Messy Quotes
We are not a trading company. We are a midstream asset company: pipe, storage and terminals. It's an unsexy, dirty business. It's not rocket science.
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