Bully Quotes - Page 12

• I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

  Max Baucus

  Fighting, Thinking, Incentives

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• Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.

  David Bowie

  Pain, Sadness, Chilly

  Song: Fame D Bowie J Lennon C Alomar, Album: Young Americans, 1975

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• When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.

  Grace Jones

  Childhood, Scary, Males

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.

  Nicole Beharie

  Brother, Children, Kids

  "Nicole Beharie ‘American Violet’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. April 13, 2009.

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• I'm not good with bullies and zealots.

  Charles Cumming

  Zealot

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• I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

  Nicole Anderson

  Teacher, Book, Pet

  "Hanging with Mean Girls 2 Nicole Anderson". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. January 25, 2011.

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• Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Soul, Machines, Erratic

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• Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

  Octavia Butler

  Bullying, Joining In, Laughing

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• I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.

  Johnny Ramone

  Way, Neighborhood, Felt

  Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.12, Abrams

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• The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons. ... Republicans: The No. 1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous.

  Garrison Keillor

  Christian, Party, Golf

  "We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore", These Times, August 26, 2004.

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• I've spoken in front of members of the U.S. Congress about a new dream of living in communities where everybody is welcome and everyone can live and go to school and work without facing the fear of bullies.

  Lauren Potter

  Dream, School, Community

  "On World Down Syndrome Day, Speaking Out on How Bullying Hurts and Kills Dreams" by Lauren Potter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

  Alex Kingston

  School, Wanted, Needed

  "I've never been an ingenue" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. September 02, 2008.

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• People tend to think that because I'm a performer and I don't go to a regular high school that I haven't personally been affected by bullies. But it's actually quite the contrary.

  Ariana Grande

  School, Thinking, People

  "Even Performers Like Me Get Bullied" by Ariana Grande, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• I've realized that you become a bully if you are just watching someone get bullied and you don't say anything. Speak up!

  Emma Roberts

  Say Anything, Speak, Bullied

  "Celebs' Best Advice For Dealing With Bullies". Slide 5, www.seventeen.com. October 17, 2014.

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• The best revenge against bullies is absolutely, resolutely, never to let them change who you are. Know that whatever bullies say or do - it comes from their weakness, not yours.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Revenge, Weakness, Knows

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• Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies.

  Matt Bomer

  Kids, Taught, Born

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Humans are threatened by anything different, and their response is to fight. They're bullies, picking on the weak, cowering from the strong.

  J.R. Ward

  Strong, Fighting, Different

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.221, Penguin

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• Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks... show off. To me, that's what bullying is, showing off. It's saying, I'm better than you, I can take you down. Not just physically, but emotionally.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Bullying, People, Stronger

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• We are all told to ignore bullies. It's something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies. One should stop them.

  Daniel Handler

  Believe, Mean, Should

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• ... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses of knowledge by the ruffian or the bully other than by suppressing the knowledge.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Science, Ruffian, Scientist

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• If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics.

  Charles Djou

  Bullying, Strong, Tactics

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• The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.

  Clarence Darrow

  Courage, Hippie, Bravery

  Clarence Darrow, S. T. Joshi (2005). “Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society”, p.89, Ohio University Press

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• There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Hate, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When I was 10, I beat up the school bully. His arms were in casts. That's what gave me the courage.

  Emo Philips

  School, Arms, Beats

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• Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharrassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world's resources.

  Toni Morrison

  Ignorant, Racist, World

  Toni Morrison (2009). “Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement”, p.2, Harper Collins

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