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• I run; that's sort of my meditation. I've been to therapy in the past when I've had crisis moments in my life; I think it's very healthy. I think that's even a more acceptable attitude in America actually than it is probably back at home [in England].

  Natalie Dormer

  Running, Attitude, Home

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We have 23 million people unemployed. They're America's forgotten people. It's the damndest thing that this much collateral damage is acceptable to this [Barack Obama] administration.

  Lou Dobbs

  America, People, Damage

  "Fox Business Network's Lou Dobbs Says Candy Crowley 'Took Over' Debate (Q&A)". Interview With Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 21, 2012.

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• I didn't mind writing incoherently, up until about 1980, occasionally. But after that, I decided, might as well be articulate. And I found, though, that writing poetry affected my prose to the point where I never again wrote in one draft, and my prose just took longer and longer and longer. It took longer and longer to come up with an acceptable text. And that's probably one of the reasons that my output has slowed down.

  Richard Meltzer

  Writing, Mind, Might

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In my theater pieces, I would do "Tits on the Head" - Polaroid photos for $10 on the stage. There would be a line of folks paying me $10 for their turn. It was public prostitution. I turned my whole audience into johns. But because it was in a theater context, an art context, it was socially acceptable.

  Annie Sprinkle

  Art, Would Be, Pieces

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

  Rachel Zucker

  Girl, Halloween, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.

  Jasper Fforde

  Animal, Choices, Forever

  "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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• I don't understand why it's more socially acceptable to say that you are a shallow person than to just say this is not something you want to do. Especially because it's a really hard job. It's a really important job. And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind.

  Meghan Daum

  Jobs, Blow, Shallow Person

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal - of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania - but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place. Animals are far more flexible than we realize. IF they weren't, they wouldn't have survived. But my opinion about zoos came after research. Initially I had the opinion that most people have, that they are jails.

  Yann Martel

  Zoos, Animal, Jail

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• There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the paintings and they don't - they may go, "okay," and then look at it in a different sort of way. Instead of just looking at it as some type of wild art, they look at it in a historical perspective or context.

  Julian Schnabel

  Art, Perspective, Historical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rock and roll was a good way to, to first recognize the, the confluence of white artists with it but also to kind of pretty it up a little bit, clean it up a little bit, make it more acceptable to, to people.

  Cosimo Matassa

  Artist, White, Rocks

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• I know from my own experience that you've got to be ready on day one. There is just too much unpredictable threat and danger in the world today to try to just say wait, I'll get to that when I can. That is just not an acceptable approach.

  Hillary Clinton

  Waiting, Trying, World

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Now documentary evidence is acceptable. What does that mean? If you have documentary evidence that a person served as a guard in one of the death camps and the documents have been authenticated, that is grounds to charge the person with crimes against humanity. And that's why you see the spate of trials previously, for example, in the '70s and the '80s, even in the low '90s. That was not the case until the change in the law.

  Marvin Hier

  Mean, Law, Humanity

  "The Last Of Nazi War Convictions Will Not End Fight Against Anti-Semitism". "Weekend Edition Saturday" With Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 13, 2016.

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• Call-and-response style, yes, exactly. So whenever different groups get together then there has to be this long period of negotiation. How will we worship? What's acceptable? What's not? If I want to say "Amen" can I?

  Michael Emerson

  Long, Style, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Humans, Human Rights

  1995 Addressing the 4th World Conference on Women. Reported in the NewYork Times, 6 Sep.

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• I wasn't a pain in the ass when I was a kid. So I think being a screw-up as an adult is way more acceptable.

  Daniel Tosh

  Pain, Kids, Thinking

  "Mr. Daniel Tosh coming to NAU". The Lumberjack Interview, www.jackcentral.org. September 11, 2008.

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• I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that are perhaps not very morally acceptable. I'm not the only one.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Thinking, Directors, Asking

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to prevent non-Catholics from having abortions if they feel that abortions are morally acceptable. They can certainly only argue for what they believe to be right in the court of public opinion and try to persuade people.

  Andrew Solomon

  Believe, People, Abortion

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• There are cases in which somebody has demonstrated just such an outrageous disregard for the bounds of an acceptable decision that you want a measure of accountability.

  Deborah Rhode

  Decision, Accountability, Want

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• It's just like calling homosexuals 'gays.' Gay means happy! You know, it's just to try to dilute it so that it becomes socially acceptable, and if you say anything against homosexual marriage or anything - 'Oh, you're not tolerant.' So we're supposed to prostitute our principles, on behalf of tolerance.

  Ted Cruz

  Mean, Gay, Homosexual Marriage

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• In the end the privatisation of war is not acceptable. We shouldn't be issuing these sub-contracts to these contracting companies because the people who run them are making millions. There should be no relationship between ex-politicians and them, like John Reid and Malcolm Rifkind, who are now associated with contracting companies having been ministers of defence. That's unacceptable.

  Ken Loach

  Running, War, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think it's going to open up a wider place for a discussion about we ought to come together in our churches, in our neighborhoods, in our work places, in our clubs and our networks. I think it'll be more acceptable to talk about it. We'll see what happens. It'll take some time. But I think it will.

  Michael Emerson

  Thinking, Together, Church

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be competitively successful in this situation. But at the other end, where standard components assembled in standard ways can yield acceptable performance, you must outsource.

  Clayton Christensen

  Successful, Yield, Giving

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.

  Nelly

  Artist, Differences, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Bashing the Religious Right has become an acceptable political sport.

  Rick Scarborough

  Sports, Christian, Religious

  Rick Scarborough (2000). “Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement”

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• Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that's great. I've got to use that power to try and do what I can - or we have - to try to make the situations in Russia and Poland better.

  Elton John

  Couple, Russia, Trying

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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