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It's vulgar, but not like grabbing your crotch, not that bad an obscenity.


Joseph Gannascoli

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JUSTICE WILLIAM O DOUGLAS IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
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NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE To see not just one, but a number of persons running out of the vehicle and grabbing open your door ...
JASON BOGLE A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
WILLIAM HAZLITT pretty low, but not vulgar.
RICHARD TYLER To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
THOMAS CARLYLE And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
BIBLE It's not for them to decide whether it is relevant or not. It's for Judge [Joseph] Condon to decide....
MARK GUMMERSON To have the comfort of sharing and laughing with genuine people who actually care is like taking a n...
GARY F EVANS... I like my stomach, but it's really annoying because apparently, now, you're not allowed to show your...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by ap...
HERBERT MARCUSE Rap has so many possibilities that need to be explored. There are different factions of rap, but som...
MICHAEL FRANTI One goal on nine shots is not bad, but that should be your first period, not your whole game.
BRIAN JONES Money gives you the luxury of not caring about it. You can affect to find it crass and vulgar, but s...
IRVINE WELSH There's definitely a trashy, x-rated vibe to our live set. It's mainly to put off homophobes, but al...
GERARD WAY You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...

So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But t...
MARY MACLANE As an actor, you want to do something challenging. And I wanted something that would break me out of...
JOSEPH GANNASCOLI Vito has a lot of things going on through his mind. Should he end it all? Should he protect himself?...
JOSEPH GANNASCOLI Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home...
DAN QUISENBERRY Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When...
WERNER HERZOG What is not yours always chirps for its master.
SPANISH PROVERB We don't know what the damage is, per se. We don't know if its salvageable or not. But while the bui...
DANNY WUERFFEL It is often that a cow does not take after its breed.
IRISH PROVERB It's not my fault, its everyone else's......losers!
JACKIE MCQUILLAN In life there are many thing's you may not like or want but is necessary for stability and sustainab...
ANONYMOUSE Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The trick with a truly successful intimidation is not to rely on volume or obscenity, but to cultiva...
CLAIRE NORTH The slave is not the one that labours like an animal for its master, but the mirror of non-humanity.
MARIANA FULGER Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish witho...
LAO TZU Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.
TOM HODGKINSON Yes Im young,We Belong,Love Is Sung,By the peaceful Song...Listen Please, You'll fall to your knees,...
NOT YER TYPICAL DORK It's not quite as bad as a gambling addiction but it's like that.
GREG JARBOE They are vulgar and dirty-minded and alien to grace, and I would not, if I could, which I hasten to ...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE It's not bad to cough. But cover your mouth when coughing. It's not bad to complain. But cover your ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Your mouth says "No," but your eyes say, "Fuck me until your dick breaks off inside me and fuses int...
ROBERT KIRKMAN Measure your life not by its duration but by its contribution.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed ...
ANGELINA JOLIE Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part
PROVERB In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste...
J. W. FULBRIGHT In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste,...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT 'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. A...
WARREN LITTLEFIELD Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their...
GEORGE GILDER Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Sm...
HUGH NIBLEY We like to play an up-tempo, aggressive style. That's how we're built. We're not built on clutching ...
GLEN WESLEY If you don't recognise the person in the mirror its time to update your residual self image. People ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Mora...
JOHN OWEN Condom an item which is bad to hear when not use correctly in a situation or conversation. But truly...
EINSTINE ORLINE G. NERCUIT An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping an...
SAMUEL BUTLER we might not ever need to look at that option, but its one of our options.
VLADIMIR PUTIN If you are unsure whether or not a site can support a subdomain on its own, it can't,
DANNY SULLIVAN It's not the load that breaks you down - its the way you carry it
LOU HOLTZ And We did not show them a sign but it was greater than its like, and We overtook them with chastise...
QURAN We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Just by writing this story, I thought that I am the real monster, I had the feeling that I am doing ...
DEYTH BANGER Bad planing on your part does not necessarily constitute an automatic emergency on my part.
UNKNOWN What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?
NERO WOLFE A bad dream can ruin your night, but a dream not chased can ruin your life.
CONNOR CHALFANT It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well.
ANDREW SEAN GREER So it's just not about, you know, vulgar nudity,
MARK BADGLEY Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.
TONY LA RUSSA Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll alw...
TONY LA RUSSA The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.
DAVID MITCHELL Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your i...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
JEF I. RICHARDS True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
ALFRED WHITEHEAD True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
WHITEHEAD One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always ...
OSCAR WILDE A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common
WILLIAM NAZLITT A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
WILLIAM NAZLITT Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner ...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR. Not bad”? Are you kidding me? He looks like that and his kissing skills are “not bad”? You’r...
KRISTINA ADAMS Obscenity comes from grime.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of...
THOMAS MOORE A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.
JAMES INHOFE The good thing about bad news is that it reaches in the last to the person it is about.
WOHI PURANA You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its mommy. And ri...
AL FRANKEN Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
ARISTOPHANES A hare is like an ass in the length of its ears, yet it is not its son
PROVERB Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's no...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Live your life. Live your dream. Live like no tomorrow. Dont let others influence your life. Because...
FABIO MARAFIOTI Sometimes your fall is not caused by your enemies, but it is caused by your stupid actions, behavior...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS Ron White may be a little vulgar, but he's an all-around good comedian.
KEVIN SELOVER A fool is like the big drum that beats fast but does not realize its hollowness
MALAYAN PROVERB Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it...
JEF I. RICHARDS Bundy was correct in saying that most serial murderers are addicted to hardcore pornography. FBI rec...
JAMES C. DOBSON If it's by luck that u lose,it's not because of your bad luck but one having better luck stands befo...
KANUPRIYA SAXENA I really believe that before its over, its not going be a cruise missile or a bomber that is going t...
DONALD RUMSFELD It's not so much that there is an increase, but that more of its users are becoming adults rather th...
ANN SMITH All of its dimensions, in fact, are similar to the other mesas. It's not exotic in any way.
JIM GARVIN The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN China does not intend to stray away from its commitments.
ZHU RONGJI Ko-Thi has not scored well. As its income has gone down, its UPAF appropriation has gone down.
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JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subs...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means pr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRAD To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through ...
JOSEPH STOWELL For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each ...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken...
JOSEPH ROUX He is great enough that is his own master.
JOSEPH HALL Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good ...
JOSEPH ROUX Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
JOSEPH PARKER All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN Children need models rather than critics.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
JOSEPH JOUBERT