"All of my friends are saying Forbes is calling around to dig up dirt on me, " he barks into the phone.

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"I remember hearing the tire tracks pulling onto the dirt road behind me, " she said.

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They finally HAMP- modified me last September but only because I paid a consultant a large amount of cash to get down in the dirt and fight for me.

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He was a dirt dog, he informed me, and he was going to get a ball.

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After like 2 hours, my grandmother came into the bathroom and proceeded to tell me this story about a prince covered in dirt that could only travel via soap bubbles and how he stayed in the bath too long and ended up washing away before he could get the princess.

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President LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA (Brazil): (Through translator) My mother, who was poor, would make me and my brother lift up the sofa so she could clean the dirt that no one saw - just like my government - we expose the dirt that had been pushed under the rug and we never stopped an investigation.

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Lying on the dirt floor of my room looking up at the night sky, I would pray, "Please let me have a pretty doll, " whenever I spotted a shooting star.

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