Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kennedy

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

Robert Greene

A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo.

Richard M. Nixon

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Rian Johnson

Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.

RJ Mitte

I like to dirt bike ride, four wheeler, go-kart.

Tupac Shakur

Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats

Tupac Shakur

Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.

Tupac Shakur

I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.

Tupac Shakur

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

Tupac Shakur

If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that.

Sarah Jessica Parker

It's never been integral to the story that I take my clothes off. I've always had clauses in my contracts saying no nudity and no body doubles... I admire actresses who can do it without feeling exploited. As long as it's their own free will, I think it's great. It's not a moral judgement, I've just never felt comfortable doing it - I'm too modest.

Roseanne Barr

Don't call people names you dirty name caller you.

Roger Ebert

Dirty Love wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent I am not certain that anyone involved has ever seen a movie, or knows what one is.

Robin Morgan

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

Robert Smith Surtees

Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

Sara Sheridan

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

Wallace Stevens

Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.

William Least Heat-Moon

The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand.

Walter Wriston

Risk is not a dirty word.

William Jackson

The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.

Winona Ryder

I remember the whole thing with the word ambition. I was messed up for a while because I associated it with certain people who just want to be famous. I think, for a while, it was kind of a dirty word for women.

William Zinsser

It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, "launder" became a dirty word.

William S. Burroughs

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

William S. Burroughs

Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido...

Will Shetterly

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

Warren Farrell

Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. Use is a dirty word only when theres an imbalance in the relationship.

Warren Farrell

The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

Zach Parise

I don't score highlight reel goals. They come from work, from getting into the corners, getting a little dirty.?

Yulia Tymoshenko

The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?

Zac Posen

The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.

W. Somerset Maugham

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

Virginia Woolf

To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.

Wernher von Braun

In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount of this research and development work ourselves. We just have to keep our own hands dirty to command the professional respect of the contractor personnel engaged with actual design, shop and testing work.