Rodrigo Duterte Quotes

I don't curse when I talk. Unless I'm mad.

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.

I've no problems with cuss words. All of us use them. Those who say they don't are lying. People can tolerate English cuss words but find the Hindi ones a bit revolting.

I know that cursing isn't for everybody, but it is definitely for me.

The metaphors exist for the stories.

Story is the language of the heart.

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.

Cussing ain't for everybody.

Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power.

I swear like a sailor.

One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.

Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency. The more words you know, the more you know... and the more colorfully you can express yourself, with nuance, metaphor, and emotion.

It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context and resolution so you reflect the way the world is in some way. It comes out of experience. I think it's OK to do that.

I like stories, and I really like words. So I like stories that rely on dialogue.

We are surrounded by story.

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but I go to the movies and then wonder - I asked myself the same question, and I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, why have we gone there? It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap.

If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is "poontang".

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

I do use the F word a lot, unfortunately.

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

There is something indecent in words .