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• The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

  Bono

  Stupid, Dear, Wells

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• You can put your TV in the garage, avoid movies altogether, and use earplugs to spare your hearing from the sounds of hip-hop or heavy metal, but these forms of entertainment will still change your life through their influence on everyone else in society. Though you may struggle to protect your own kids from music that encourages violence or drugs or irresponsible sex, you can't possibly protect them from all the other kids in your community who have received full exposure.

  Michael Medved

  Sex, Struggle, Kids

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• A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Democracy, Wonderful, Responsible

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• I think this is irresponsible preaching and very dangerous, and especially when it is slanted toward children, I think it's totally irresponsible, because I see nothing biblical that points up to our being in the last days, and I just think it's an outrageous thing to do, and a lot of people are making a living—they've been making a living for 2,000 years—preaching that we're in the last days.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Children, Biblical, Thinking

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• If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.

  Sheri Holman

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.89, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Suicidal, Luxury, Glory

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.359, Baen Books

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• Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Taken, Sunshine, Dancing

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.9, e-artnow

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• The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough for me. I would do it all over again without changing the beat, although I have never recommended it to others. That would be cruel and irresponsible and wrong, I think, and I am none of those things.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Son, Thinking, Opposites

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• We would sit in the living room, drink a case of Busch beer, and throw the empty cans into the kitchen for no reason whatsoever, beyond the fact that it was the most overtly irresponsible way for any two people to live.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Beer, Two, People

  Chuck Klosterman (2010). “What Happens When People Stop Being Polite: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool!

  Stephenie Meyer

  Selfish, Fool, Idiot

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• For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Years, Wish

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• I may be irresponsible but I am a good irresponsible.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Funny, May

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• Instructions for Adam Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your door keyes. Laugh. Eat pot-noodles for breakfast. Miss lectures. Be irresponsible.

  Jenny Downham

  Doors, Drunk, Laughing

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• The problem is that the way [President] Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents - number 43 added $4 trillion dollars by his lonesome - so that we now have over $9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back. [That's] $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Men, Numbers

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• If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Rocks, Use

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks on Post-‘Cosmos’". Front Row Features Interview, frontrowfeatures.com. June 8, 2014.

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• The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We can be wantonly irresponsible, or we can be caring and compassionate. God says, "I have set before you life and death... Choose life."

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Home, Caring

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• Everybody has a gas-guzzling car because people like SUVs. They would like SUVs if they were hybrid vehicles that had the same horsepower and used less gasoline. Instead, what the auto manufacturers are doing is building SUVs that are hybrid vehicles that use the same amount of gasoline because they up the horsepower. That's a decision that they make to market irresponsible economic behavior. The American people like the SUVs, they have kids, they, they need them, they get around in them, but we have options.

  William J. Clinton

  Kids, Car, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The veto is a President's Constitutional right, given to him by the drafters of the Constitution because they wanted it as a checkagainst irresponsible Congressional action. The veto forces Congress to take another look at legislation that has been passed. I think this is a responsible tool for a president of the United States, and I have sought to use it responsibly.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Thinking, President, Looks

  Jimmy Carter, United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration, Gerald R. Ford (1978). “The Presidential campaign, 1976”

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• Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Needs, Veils, Behavior

  Interview with Jeff Sweat, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Anyone who says network news cannot be profitable doesn't know what he is talking about. But anyone who says it must "always," make money is misguided and irresponsible.

  Dan Rather

  Talking, News, Making Money

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• Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.

  Michelle Rhee

  Leadership, Education, Money

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• Gossip is irresponsible communication.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Communication, Gossip

  Rita Mae Brown (1976). “A plain brown rapper”, Diana Pr

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• The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'

  Donald Miller

  Cute, Cat, Two

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• the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

  Agnes Repplier

  Actors, Littles, Theater

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