Dirty Work Quotes:

Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there's always beer.

- Norm MacDonald

source: "My Year Of Flops Norm MacDonald's Film Career Died For Your Sins Case File #133: Dirty Work" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 18, 2009.

topic: Beer, Self, Matter, Dirty Work, Bad Life

Note to self... Sex with blow-up doll is not as good as advertised.

- Norm MacDonald

topic: Sex, Blow, Self, Dirty Work, Note To Self

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

- Elizabeth Banks

topic: Dirty, Men, Rely, Dirty Work

If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.

- Neal Boortz

source: Neal Boortz (1998). “The Terrible Truth About Liberals”, p.48, Taylor Trade Publishing

topic: Dirty, Government, Needs, Dirty Work

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

- Jim Fowler

topic: Dirty, Naughty, Guy, Dirty Work

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

- Karl Marlantes

source: Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.127, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: War, Dirty, Kids, Matterhorn, Dirty Work

I don't know" means "NO!" "I don't know" means "I'm too cowardly to tell you the truth because I can't deal with confrontation." "I don't know" means please do the dirty work for me because I don't want to hurt your feelings even more then I already have.

- Greg Behrendt

source: Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.38, Harmony

topic: Hurt, Dirty, Mean, Dirty Work, Cowardly

And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?

- John Ruskin

topic: Dirty, Land, Bye, Dirty Work

I've learned how to be open and bold about my faith, but in terms of my influence, I just try to lead in a godly way. What that means for me is to serve them, whether it's just doing the dirty work, like cleaning up sweat on the floor, or deferring to other people, or carrying equipment bags.

- Jeremy Lin

source: "Jeremy Lin: Taking Harvard basketball to new levels". StudentSoul Interview, studentsoul.intervarsity.org.

topic: Dirty, Mean, Godly, Dirty Work

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

- Shane Claiborne

topic: Dirty, Community, Willingness, Dirty Work

Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary, to deport them, to expel and burn them, to have everyone hate us…

- Ariel Sharon

topic: Hate, Dirty, Israel, Dirty Work, Diaspora

I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. What you don't understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it.

- Ariel Sharon

topic: Jobs, War, Dirty, Zionism, Dirty Work

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.

- John Lewis

source: "The Long March of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

topic: Dirty, Hard Work, Should Have, Dirty Work

The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Dirty, Giving, People, Dirty Work

The recording process [ for 'Dirty Work'] took longer than anticipated, because we kept going on tour in between the recording process to make sure that we were still pleasing all the fans across the world.

- Jack Barakat

topic: Dirty, Fans, World, Dirty Work

I think the Sierra Club is the environmental group that has the best chance of really accomplishing things. It's well known, and it actually gets down to doing the dirty work of protecting the environment.

- Tom Scholz

topic: Dirty, Thinking, Environmental, Dirty Work

Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.

- Paul Feig

topic: Nice, Dirty, People, Dirty Work, Skates

Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Dirty, Buddhism, India, Dirty Work

I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Dirty Work

Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

topic: Dirty, Grateful, Men, Dirty Work

Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.

- Dave Barry

topic: God, Dirty, Kentucky, Washing Machines, Appliances

The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?

- Don Feder

topic: Running, War, Dirty, Beijing, Castro

I am tired of the warmakers making war with our children. I am tired of our tired troops being sent over to do the dirty work for mob bosses who are going to squeeze the life out of Iraq and not leave until every asset and every natural resource has been raped from the country. I am tired of seeing Iraqis burying their loved ones and hearing the reverberating screams of mothers all over our country who are being destroyed for the benefit of a very few.

- Cindy Sheehan

source: Personal Blog, January 15, 2007.

topic: Mother, Country, Children, Burying, Dirty Work

I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

- Nathan Fillion

topic: Dirty, Weekend, Hands, Dirty Work, Power Tools

Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

- John Ruskin

topic: Dirty, Pay, Pleasant, Dirty Work

If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.168

topic: Dirty, Men, Lawyer, Sweepers, Dirty Work

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

topic: Dirty, Naughty, Thinking, Dirty Words, Dirty Work

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

- Ted Nugent

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dirty, Naughty, Done, Dirty Work

The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

- Russell Baker

topic: Dirty, Government, Political, Dirty Work, Hangman