Bullying Quotes - Page 16

• It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

  Veronica Roth

  Cowardice, Prove, Recalls

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.77, Harper Collins

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• You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.

  Junot Diaz

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.177, Faber & Faber

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• (To the haters)You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, your're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Light, Graves, Burying

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• We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Girl, Pain, Mean

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• I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend who became a bully. I took a stand and took it upon myself to separate from her. I couldn't be associated with her because it wasn't the type of person I wanted to be.

  Amber Riley

  Best Friend, School, Type

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

  Thomas Browne

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Wonder

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• I want to help with bullying because there are girls who can't just up and homeschool and focus on their career.

  Demi Lovato

  Girl, Careers, Focus

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• This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.

  Trent Reznor

  Lasts, Right Now

  "Report: Nine Inch Nails" by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 24, 2009.

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• I changed schools a lot when I was in elementary school because some girls were mean. They were less mean in middle school, because I was doing all right; although this one girl gave me invitations to hand out to her birthday party that I wasn't invited to.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girl, Party, Mean

  "I beat the bullying bitches… now I steer clear of suck-ups" by Emily Fairbairn, www.thesun.co.uk. March 07, 2013.

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• I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art...I was an outcast in a lot of ways...but everything that you get picked on for or you feel makes you weird is essentially what's going to make you sexy as an adult.

  Justin Timberlake

  Sexy, Football, Art

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• I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.

  Chris Colfer

  Phones, Cells, Thank God

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• You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they admire. Also, when you get made fun of-when people point out your weaknesses, it's an opportunity for you to rise above.

  Zac Efron

  Inspirational, Fun, Opportunity

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  All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

  Bob Dylan

  Purpose, Can Do, I Can

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.

  Tom Hiddleston

  People, Firsts, Classic

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• I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Kids, Trying, Break Out

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• The Republican Party, I really believe, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from years and years of bullying and taunting. The Republican Party is Jonathan Martin. The Democrat Party and the media are Richie Incognito.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stress, Party, Believe

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• Everyone has the bully or the mean girl or the ex-boyfriend who tried to bring them down.

  Demi Lovato

  Mean Girls, Ex Boyfriend, Exes

  "Demi Lovato's Second Chance". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2011.

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• I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.

  John Lydon

  Believe, Inspiration, Passive Resistance

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.

  Zachary Quinto

  Kids, Gay, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

  Stevie Wonder

  Life, Success, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, People, Autism

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

  Felix Dennis

  America, Definitions, Empires

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• The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Reality, Views, People

  "Between Time and Timbuktu". Movie script by Kurt Vonnegut et al. Preface, 1972.

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• People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all -- we were wet.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Father, School

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

  Leif Enger

  Pie, Peaches, Apologetic

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly Press

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