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• In Poland, some people think that I'm kind of scandalous because I'm a woman who should stay at home with her kids instead of making movies about what I want and, even worse, addressing Polish taboos like church, homosexuals and history.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Kids, Home, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• People don't understand that my films is not about being scandalous - it's about being critical of our own society.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  People, Film, Critical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When you go to that other country you realize that in France and in England, you don't ask somebody what they do for a living when you meet someone. A lot of the obvious things, the shortcuts we take in America - in America you can talk about money all you want. You can ask how much they make, rent they pay, how much their house costs and how much their car costs, and they'll feel comfortable telling you. But it's scandalous to ask anyone in England or France a question like that.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Obvious Things, America

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• When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Fall, Church, Cry

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.22

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• The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Whispering, Way

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Love Among The Artists (Autobiographical Novel): A Story With a Purpose”, p.181, e-artnow

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• People stopping you in the street, though, is very different from being hounded by the press, which is the kind of attention that celebrities get, and I'm probably too old for that kind of thing to happen anyway. I think it happens more when you're dating all sorts of different very handsome actors or something. They want gossip and scandal, and they know they're not going to get it from me because I'm too old to be scandalous. Of course, they could read the book - although it's not really a scandalous book.

  Grace Coddington

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Patriotic, Judging

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• It’s scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.

  Amartya Sen

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians?

  William Greider

  Government, Political, Dollars

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Foundation, Scandal, Tales

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, J. W. Lake (1838). “The school for scandal: a comedy in five acts”, p.65

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• ...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.

  Shane Claiborne

  Kings, Believe, Teaching

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.314, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I hear in the big city, girls dress up like sexy witches and sexy vampires and sexy Easter bunnies, and go to parties where they do all sorts of scandalous things," Kami said. "Luckily you and me, we got to walk around our town looking at our neighbours' gardens and remarking 'My, that's a good-looking scarecrow' to each other. I guess this is why our natures are so beautiful and unspoilt.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)”, p.12, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Church, World

  Song: Black Jesus

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• We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity.

  David Brooks

  Gay, Two, People

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• This is a very fashionable charge to bring against a company. This is one of the consequences, in this country, of being in the Internet industry. I think it's quite scandalous, they brought the weakest charges they had.

  James Hunt

  Country, Thinking, Internet

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• One of the scandalous things I did was as I read them afterward I would burn them. I loved them, but for practical reasons I had to lighten the load. I burned favorites, like William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying." There's a whole list in the back of my book. It's me,[Adolf] Hitler, [Benito] Mussolini, and Pol Pot. We're the book burners.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Book, Dying, Lists

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 2, 2013.

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• In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development. I came back from New York yesterday and I took the fastest train in the country, the Acela. My wife and I took the New York-Boston train sixty years ago - it wasn't called the Acela then - and I think it's improved by about fifteen minutes since then. Any other country in the world would be about half the time. In fact when it's riding along the Connecticut turnpike it's barely keeping up with traffic, which is just scandalous.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, New York, Thinking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital punishment would be administered with fairness and justice. Instead, the promise has become a cruel and empty mockery. If not remedied, the scandalous state of our present system of capital punishment will cast a pall of shame over our society for years to come. We cannot let it continue.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Years, Punishment, Justice

  Thurgood Marshall (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, Chicago Review Press

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• The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flirty, Husband, Flirting

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.17

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• Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.

  Thomas Pogge

  Get Better, Poverty, Becoming

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Credit, Favors

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• For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam and dark lipstick, to the'60s Hong Kong heroine of In the Mood for Love. I wanted to capture that fascinating, exquisite and slightly scandalous femininity.

  Tom Ford

  Dark, Past, Mysterious Woman

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• The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Spiritual, Age

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• For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.

  Vera Nazarian

  Daughter, Order, Imagination

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• We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Real, Care, Privilege

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