Appropriate Quotes - Page 9

• It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.

  Annie Lennox

  Children, Example, World

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• With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

  Laura Linney

  Pain, Character, School

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

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• Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Expectations, Age

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• I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Schedules, Detours, Dinner

  "Matthew McConaughey Throws Muscle Behind New Apparel Collection". Interview with Jean E. Palmieri, wwd.com. February 14, 2013.

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• There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.

  Danica McKellar

  Naked, Ifs

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• Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Engineering, Able, Social

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• There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

  Moby

  Doe, World, Exposure

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• Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Retirement, Age, Able

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes”

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• Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

  Albert J. Nock

  Spiritual, Men, Knowing

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• I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

  Henry Paulson

  Brother, Lines, Taxpayers

  "Investors Feel The Pain of Lehman Bros. Collapse". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. September 16, 2008.

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• There are times I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not really appropriate to have anything serious.

  Katy Perry

  Flirting, People, Serious

  "'Part of Me' is Katy Perry in all her glory, pain". Interview with Bryan Alexander, usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 4, 2012.

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• By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

  David Rockefeller

  Mean, Thinking, Museums

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

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• The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

  Mike Royko

  Cities, Criminals, Rehabilitation

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.313, Agate Digital

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• Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Used, Knows, Ifs

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 8 Jan. 2001. One of "Rumsfeld's Rules."

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• To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Existentialism, Destruction

  "Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Part 3: Being-For-Others, 1943.

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• America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.

  Bill Shuster

  Veterans Day, War, Blue

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• I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Differences, Judging, Prejudice

  "A Latina Judge's Voice". Address to the 'Raising the Bar' symposium at the UC Berkeley School of Law, www.berkeley.edu. 2001.

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• I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself.

  Willie Stargell

  Stars, Situation

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• People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Believe, Simple, People

  Jan. 27, 2004, www.imdb.com.

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• Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you're making your own judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet's diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that.

  Alison Sweeney

  Dog, Children, Mistake

  "'Biggest Loser' host, dog Winky battle pet obesity". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

  Emma Thompson

  Hate, Order, Trying

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• The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

  James D. Watson

  Essence, Bipolar, Levels

  "Watson retires". Prof. James D. Watson's statement on blacks and whites just before his retirement from the post of Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

  Jay Weatherill

  Government, India, Framework

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• If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.

  Andrew Weil

  Sleep, Hygiene, Quality

  "Why Dreams Are Vital to Emotional Health" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2012.

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• I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

  Debra Winger

  Parenting, Age, Roles

  "Book World: Debra Winger on 'Undiscovered'". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.

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