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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

— Will Rogers

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

— Hilarie Burton

I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.

— Mike Rowe

No one likes getting their nails done more than I do.

— Serena Williams

What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

— Franklin Pierce Adams

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

— John Rhys-Davies

If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

— Nikki Cox

I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

— Greg LeMond

I never go wild with nails.

— Abbey Clancy

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me to look at things politically or in any way as a project, to further my career. You're injected directly into the blood of the places in which you're living and what's going on there.

— Arundhati Roy

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

— John Mortimer