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I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff.
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.
The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.
I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.
My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.
Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.
We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.
It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.
I would want like Leonardo Dicaprio's dirt, because he doesn't have any out there. We never see any bad press about him.
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.
What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.
I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.
The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.
When I was little, I asked my mom to move us to Los Angeles and get me an agent. She would say, 'Stop it. Go play in the dirt.'
The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.
I love mountain-biking or any form of bikes, like dirt bikes; I love getting out there, although obviously I have to be careful.
When I was a kid, I used to love to play 'Dig Dug.' It was, like, this little dude, where he digs in the dirt and makes tunnels.
The nature of life is to face us with ourselves, until we are able to handle the problems that knocked us into the dirt yesterday.
To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.
The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.
I just try to reflect the grittiness in New York. I try to protect the grit and the dirt that comes with it, which is a good thing.
I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old. And so grumpy.
I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.
My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.
I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.
You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
I want to sit and be less career oriented. Snowboard, dirt bike, mountain bike, surf. Just be human. To me, that's an important part of life.
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
I didn't have life that good coming up. I wasn't born with a lot of money. We weren't dirt poor, but we weren't rich. All I knew was struggle.
If you are walking through the hood and you notice the cracks in the sidewalk where all the weeds, pebbles, dirt and grit settle in, that's me.
I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.
'Dirt on My Boots' was pegged as the second single from 'California Sunrise' from the get-go, and we felt like it was just a fun song to go with.
I've often said there's no such thing as a track record in TV. I seen people who created things much more successful than mine treated like dirt.
I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.
I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'
My story, is how a kid that's born into really destitute poverty on a little dirt road in Florida winds up in one of the largest bands in history.
Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
I'm a typical dirt racer that wants to go try different lines. When the line goes to the top of the racetrack, I feel like I'm a little bit better.