When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
It’s important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that’s a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.
My father’s favorite movie was ‘The Dirty Dozen.’
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
I think politics is a dirty game. We’ve seen the sides that they take; we’ve seen the commentary they have had on my father.
It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn’t dirty and it wasn’t horrible and wasn’t shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience.
I love the smell of clean laundry. Working in the garden and getting my hands dirty. Doing the dishes. These are the things that make me feel normal.
I’ve found that if you wear a beret, people think you’re either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
I watched all kinds of dirty movies as a kid. My parents were very liberal about that, and I was still an uber-nerd who never drank or did drugs. I don’t think it matters.
I tell the truth and they call me a fascist, a racist, an ugly, dirty, nasty, xenophobic populist.
Family vacations are the kind of enterprises you embark upon with hope and optimism, and return with a lot of dirty laundry and suffering extreme exhaustion.
I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don’t air your dirty laundry to people that aren’t your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn’t a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That’s just the way I was. I’m not sure. I might have been born with it.
I always remember my mom saying she wanted a son, so I basically filled that position, like, being outside and always having dirt underneath my nails. I was never afraid of getting dirty and grimy.
Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across the developed world and go straight to clean, distributed power.
In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.
We’re basically a rock band – guitar, bass, drums and vocals. But we take it further than that. We can be rotten, dirty, and heavy as anyone, but at the same time, we’ve got a lot of melody.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
I’m from Stratford, East London. I can get down and dirty. I just roll my sleeves up and get on with it.
How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.
Plenty of funds have fine long-term returns despite being tax-inefficient and generally costly. But a dirty secret is this: Average, no-load fund investors do much worse than the funds – or the market.
In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.
The Green New Deal is for elitists who live in their high rises in New York City and see a dirty world around them because they’re in New York City. I said New York City can pass a Green New Deal… Why not try it? Why not try it?
It’s a misconception that all singers need to portray a messed up, dirty look to prove their identity.
I’m doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it’s fantastic and it makes me very happy. I’m dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I’m working on a new tv show for cable and it’s not set up yet.
Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I’m thirsty, not dirty.
Dirty Projectors has always been a band that’s been card-carrying modernists in terms of pushing different kinds of abstraction to the fore and trying to take them to the center of the culture or something like that.
If I see something dirty or untidy, I have to clean it up.
The people may not be like that, but I think the media had a very dirty role in spoiling relations between us and India.
Justin Smith was one of the most underrated players in the NFL for what he did. He would sacrifice and do the dirty work, then someone else would clean up off it.
‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director – who were just fun.
In Hollywood, I was used to being on a dirty old sound stage, and the whole crew is just scratching themselves. They don’t care who you are.
The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I’ve been making it right for myself.
Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: ‘Son, you’re not going to have filthy hands like mine. You’re going into show business.’
In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a little while. And my best friend’s older brother would sometimes drive us home in this pimped-out truck, and he’d play all his dirty rap music. We thought we were really cool.
We’d get right up and go straight to the beach for practice. Afterward, we’d leave on our wringing, dirty clothes and jump in the ocean. Then we’d leave them drying on the beach. That was our laundry break. Then, we’d play all afternoon.
I’m kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don’t understand wanting to read about other people’s dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.
War’s dirty little secret is that some men love it.
You play a ‘lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain’t dead but I’m just supposed to be’ blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that’s what rock n’ roll did with it. So blues ain’t going nowhere. Ain’t goin’ nowhere.
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.
I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you’re supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it’s not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.
The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
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.
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
In Manhattan, my go-to bag is a black L.L.Bean tote it never looks dirty!
I’m a boots girl. I always wear boots. They only look better when they get dirty.
The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that’s incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.
Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?
Macaroni and cheese was my mother’s special dish. She’d also make jambalaya and dirty rice and bake a ham that would be incredible. And greens. But if you were looking for vegetables and healthy things, there weren’t a lot of those.
The band broke up because I couldn’t bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he’s a dirty little beast.
The Emmys are in good hands with Andy Samberg. Disgusting, dirty hands.
The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.
Republicans like to accuse Democrats of trying to ‘pick winners and losers.’ They say we should run government ‘like a business’ and let ‘the market’ decide important matters. When it comes to the declining fortunes of dirty fuels like coal, however, they quickly they abandon these principles.
I like doing slightly masculine, Savile Row tailoring. A nice jacket. Wearable – it’s almost a dirty word in fashion, wearable, but that’s what I do.
I just love getting dirty.
I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time.
