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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.
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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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I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.
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Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be.
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It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
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The Europeans do tend to delegitimize Israel and turn Israel into a dirty word, which is unforgivable.
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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.
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The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
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I only fight clean fighters. I'll fight anybody in the UFC that's clean. Or dirty. Or clean.
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Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
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I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.
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I just love getting dirty.
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