Inappropriate Quotes

• Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.

  Will Ferrell

  Inappropriate Behavior, Laughing, Make Me Laugh

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• Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, People, Liberty

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• Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

  Julie Burchill

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  "The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations". Book by Mark Water, p. 111, 2000.

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• When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

  Lauren Bacall

  Talking, Acting, Actors

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

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• It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Use, Vulgar

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

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• Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

  Wallace Stevens

  Literature, Source, British

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.256, Vintage

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• There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

  John Stott

  Ambition, Cherish

  John Stott (2000). “Sermon on the Mount”, p.74, InterVarsity Press

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• I can be inappropriate at times.

  Leslie Easterbrook

  I Can

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

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• The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Positivity, Negativity, Negative

  "Bergman talks of his dreams and demons in rare interview". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

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• What's most interesting to me is when [Tony DiNozzo] is just madly inappropriate.

  Michael Weatherly

  Interesting, Most Interesting

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• I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. It did not need to exist.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Pyramids

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

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• It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.

  William J. Clinton

  Christian, Religious, Teacher

  Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1083, Best Books on

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• If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contrevention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering involves rejecting inappropriate elements.

  Mary Douglas

  Unique, Order, Hygiene

  "Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo". Book by Mary Douglas, 1966.

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• My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.

  Aaron Levie

  Mom, Snacks, Would Be

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• Most everybody had made at least one bad, drunken decision in their lives. Called an ex at two in the morning. Or perhaps has a little too much to drink on a second date and wept inconsolably while revealing how simply damaged one was, while nonetheless retaining an uncommonly large capacity for love. That kind of thing was, while regrettable, at least comprehensible. But waking up with someone generationally inappropriate, like your grandfather's best buddy?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Morning, Two, Decision

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.56, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

  Dennis Prager

  Writing, Speak, Occasional

  "A Letter to Young Voters" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

  Liz Phair

  Summer, Rocks, Clothes

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• I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.

  Tony Parsons

  Bully, Coward, Behaviour

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• Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor to glare at the two of them. "Excuse me," he said, "but when did my lab become appropriate for snogging?" "What's snogging?" Shane asked. "Ridiculous displays of inappropriate affection in front of me. Roughly translated. And what are you doing here?

  Rachel Caine

  Book, Two, Bangs

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.36, Allison & Busby

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• Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?" "I find your attempt at levity inappropriate." "Consider me properly chastised.

  Ilona Andrews

  Rocks, Orange, Body

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• We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one else knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Dream, Pain, Real

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.359, Spectra

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• I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Loss, Firsts

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• Adrian opened his mouth, undoubtedly ready with some inappropriate and mocking comment. Lissa gave him a sharp headshake that kept him quiet. "Aren't there any, I don't know, sleeveless options?" The saleswoman's eyes widened. "No one has ever worn straps to a funeral. It wouldn't be right." "What about shorts?" asked Adrian. "Are they okay if they're with a tie? Because that's what I was gonna go with." The woman looked horrified.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Ties, Funeral

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.16, Penguin

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• I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Inappropriate Behavior, Charm, Trays

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.484, Macmillan

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• I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I guess. I like to have fun as much as the next person but I tend to do it in private and just hang out with close friends. If I'm going to go out, I'll just do it with my really good friends.

  Emma Roberts

  Best Friend, Fun, Good Friend

  "Q&A: Emma Roberts & Freddie Highmore Are More Than Just 'Getting By'". Interview with Breanne L. Heldman, www.mtv.com. June 16, 2011.

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