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• In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Sports, Athlete

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• It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

  Wangari Maathai

  Men, People, Feelings

  "I Will Disappear Into the Forest". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2005.

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• The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Goal, Champion, Viewpoints

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• The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Gdp, Focus

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• I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Found, Resignation, Offense

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• Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.

  Nas

  Baby, Race, Fear Mongering

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• Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable.

  Bill Murray

  Party, Fall, Fighting

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• Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong.

  Moby

  Hair, Shaving, Brushing

  "What I see in the mirror: Moby". www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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• To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

  Agnes Martin

  Giving Up, Mind, Progress

  Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz

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• A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

  Jena Malone

  Friendship, Religious, Buddhist

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• Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Birthday, Errors, Long

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• I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

  Frank Gehry

  Would Be, Building, Driven

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Fighting, Hands, Church

  Giuseppe Garibaldi, Jessie White Mario (1971). “Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi: Supplement”

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• Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

  Julie Burchill

  Suicide, Hollywood, Growing

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• I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.

  Jo Brand

  Thinking, Years, People

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• I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.

  Jo Brand

  Hate, Men, Years

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• I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

  David Bowie

  Birthday, Past, Age

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• The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable.

  Lewis Black

  Valentines Day, Holiday, Years

  "Lewis Black on the things he'll always love". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2010.

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• Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hypocrisy, Manners, Etiquette

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.184, University of Georgia Press

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• Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine," seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Attitude, Teaching, Wind

  "Homily of His Eminence Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Dean of the College of Cardinals". Remarks by Pope Benedict XVI during a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave of cardinals, www.vatican.va. April 18, 2005.

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• Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mean, Commitment, Government

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.109, Verso

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• I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.

  Herman Cain

  People, African American, Black

  "Herman Cain on Why 'The Black Guy Is Winning': Jeffrey Goldberg". Bloomberg, June 13, 2011.

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• Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Oratory, Persuasion

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• Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable.

  Jodie Foster

  Might, Truthful, Cruelty

  Jodie Foster's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 29, 1989.

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• Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Writing, Schizophrenia, Form

  Interview in "Writers at Work" (The Paris Review Interviews), 8th Series, 1988.

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