Inappropriate Quotes - Page 10

• It was not just inappropriate behavior

  Bob Kerrey

  Stupid, Humorous, Inappropriate Behavior

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• Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reflection, Today, Glee

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• Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the nature of the offense and the incorrigibility of the offender and more on inappropriate and indefensible considerations: the political and personal inclinations of prosecutors; the defendant's wealth, race and intellect; the race and economic status of the victim; the quality of the defendant's counsel; and the resources allocated to defense lawyers.

  Gerald Heaney

  Race, Decision, Political

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

  Thinking, Talking, Use

  "TIME" Magazine, August 8, 2005.

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• Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

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• Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Falling In Love, Moving, Choices

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.52, A&C Black

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• We’ve educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren’t. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they’re really protecting themselves. Besides, you can’t protect children. They know everything.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Thinking, Spontaneity

  "The Paternal Pride of Maurice Sendak" by Bernard Holland, www.nytimes.com. November 8, 1987.

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• To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

  Gore Vidal

  Novelists, Adjectives, Nouns

  Gore Vidal (2007). “Point to Point Navigation”, p.2, Vintage

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• I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

  Marlon Brando

  Country, Brother, Thinking

  Marlon Brando's speech written for the Academy Awards, as it appeared in the New York Times, March 30, 1973.

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• Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

  Tom Robbins

  Finding Yourself, Pilots, Ships

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.103, Bantam

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• As a rider, you must slowly and methodically show your horse what is appropriate. You also have to discourage what's inappropriate, not by making the inappropriate impossible, but by making it difficult so that the horse himself chooses appropriate behavior. You can't choose it for him; you can only make it difficult for him to make the wrong choices. If, however, you make it impossible for him to make the wrong choices, you're making war.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, War, Choices

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• It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.

  Joko Beck

  Should Have, Guilt, Different

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• There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Running, Adventure, Weather

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• Grace is inexplicable, inappropriate, out of bounds, offensive, excessive, & given to the wrong people.

  Michael Spencer

  People, Grace, Offensive

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• There is nothing strange, creepy, or inappropriate about John Travolta .

  Scarlett Johansson

  Creepy, Strange

  "Scarlett Johansson: John Travolta is not 'creepy,' Oscars kiss was 'totally welcome'", www.foxnews.com. February 27, 2015.

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• It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

  Mike Farrell

  War, Administration, Trump

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• People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.

  Tobey Maguire

  People, Photographer, Sometimes

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• I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.

  Cliff Stearns

  Children, People, Pages

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• In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments.

  Jess Weixler

  Real, Stupid, People

  "Jess Weixler Is Comedy's Next Big Thing". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. March 28, 2013.

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• When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one of those guys that we used to watch, you know, I watched Clockwork Orange at an age that was incredibly inappropriate, but he sat there with me and he explained what was going on and you know, I came to appreciate it even if I was terrified at the time.

  Duncan Jones

  Dad, Kids, Orange

  Source: collider.com

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• One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.

  E. M. Broner

  Grain Of Salt, Needs, Spontaneous

  E. M. Broner (1999). “Bringing Home the Light: A Jewish Woman's Handbook of Rituals”, Council Oaks Distribution

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• We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Thinking, Spontaneity

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• I am hungry at the most inappropriate times.

  Calum Hood

  Hungry

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2014

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• Nations are an historic reality in Europe. They all have different histories, and they joined the EU at very different times and under widely differing circumstances. I was mayor of Warsaw for three years and always in favor of Poland joining the EU. But I also experienced how we had to implement EU regulations that were completely inappropriate to our situation.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Reality, Years, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The average student emerges at the end of the Ph.D. program, already middle-aged, overspecialized, poorly prepared for the world outside, and almost unemployable except in a narrow area of specialization. Large numbers of students for whom the program is inappropriate are trapped in it, because the Ph.D. has become a union card required for entry into the scientific job market.

  Freeman Dyson

  Jobs, Numbers, Average

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