Inappropriate Quotes

• Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.

  Will Ferrell

  Inappropriate Behavior, Laughing, Make Me Laugh

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• Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, People, Liberty

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• Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

  Julie Burchill

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  "The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations". Book by Mark Water, p. 111, 2000.

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

  Lauren Bacall

  Talking, Acting, Actors

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

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• 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

  Memorable, Use, Vulgar

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

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• Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

  Wallace Stevens

  Literature, Source, British

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.256, Vintage

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• There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

  John Stott

  Ambition, Cherish

  John Stott (2000). “Sermon on the Mount”, p.74, InterVarsity Press

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• I can be inappropriate at times.

  Leslie Easterbrook

  I Can

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

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• The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Positivity, Negativity, Negative

  "Bergman talks of his dreams and demons in rare interview". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

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• What's most interesting to me is when [Tony DiNozzo] is just madly inappropriate.

  Michael Weatherly

  Interesting, Most Interesting

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• I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. It did not need to exist.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Pyramids

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

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• It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.

  William J. Clinton

  Christian, Religious, Teacher

  Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1083, Best Books on

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• If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contrevention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering involves rejecting inappropriate elements.

  Mary Douglas

  Unique, Order, Hygiene

  "Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo". Book by Mary Douglas, 1966.

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• My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.

  Aaron Levie

  Mom, Snacks, Would Be

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• I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment. I'm 23 years old and despite the successes I've had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner people have come to expect from me. For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again.

  Michael Phelps

  Sorry, Years, People

  "Phelps admits 'bad judgment' after marijuana-pipe photo". www.cnn.com. February 2, 2009.

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• I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.

  Don Mazankowski

  Humorous, Thinking, Profound

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• The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mean, Hands, Farmers

  "Vandana Shiva: 'Seeds must be in the hands of farmers'". Interview with Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2013.

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• There is nothing that you can do that is worse for yourself, than to do something that you believe is inappropriate. And so, get clear and happy about whichever choice you make. Because it is your contradiction that causes the majority of the contradiction in vibration.

  Esther Hicks

  Believe, Choices, Vibrations

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires”, p.385, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.

  Ted Nelson

  Views, Years, Defining

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• I start to back away before I do something wildly inappropriate, like jump on top of him.

  Lauren Oliver

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• [T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.

  Jared Diamond

  People, Triumph, Stubbornness

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• Dani," Decker said firmly. "Trust me, this is not a dream." "Why is it you men always say trust me before spitting out something completely unpalatable?" she asked, irritation flickering through her. "Vampires aren't supposed to be real. And how come you had to be a cute vampire? You should be a dog. All evil, vile people should look as ugly as they are inside." "We aren't ev--" Decker halted his denial, and then did something she hadn't yet seen him do and lifted his lips in a very rare-and in her opinion, totally inappropriate-grin as he asked, "You think I'm cute?

  Lynsay Sands

  Cute, Dream, Dog

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• Hagrid, look what I’ve got for relatives!” Harry said furiously. “Look at the Dursleys!” “An excellent point,” said Professor Dumbledore. “My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers, but did Aberforth hide? No, he did not! He held his head high and went about his business as usual! Of course, I’m not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been bravery. . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Bravery, Usual

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• Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor to glare at the two of them. "Excuse me," he said, "but when did my lab become appropriate for snogging?" "What's snogging?" Shane asked. "Ridiculous displays of inappropriate affection in front of me. Roughly translated. And what are you doing here?

  Rachel Caine

  Book, Two, Bangs

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.36, Allison & Busby

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• She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappropriate future moment.

  Gail Carriger

  Insulting, Moments, Excellent

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