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• I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.

  Tony Parsons

  Bully, Coward, Behaviour

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• I think my heartbeat might be the Morse code for ‘inappropriate.’

  Rives

  Thinking, Might, Heartbeat

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• One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.

  A. N. Wilson

  Army, Reality, Black

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• Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.

  Joseph J. Ellis

  Crush, Sweet, Fire

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• When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you," she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That's the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, "We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does," that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I guess it happens. What - Marco actually gave me cover, because he actually said the same thing, and he said it during the debate, that he was lying. So, I just said you can't say things which are lies and claim Christianity. You just can't do it. I just don't think it's good. I'm not questioning his Christianity. I just think it's inappropriate to hold up the Bible and lie.

  Donald Trump

  Lying, Thinking, Debate

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.

  Douglas Adams

  Mistake, Animal, Self

  "Last Chance to See". Book by Douglas Adams, 1990.

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• I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do something wrong - if I say something inappropriate on a live tv show, for example - I half expect to have to deliver a note to Barbara Brand: 'Please come up to Channel 4 head office, Russell's done something despicable.

  Russell Brand

  School, Tv Shows, Office

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Loss, Firsts

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• Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?" "I find your attempt at levity inappropriate." "Consider me properly chastised.

  Ilona Andrews

  Rocks, Orange, Body

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• We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one else knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Dream, Pain, Real

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.359, Spectra

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• Most everybody had made at least one bad, drunken decision in their lives. Called an ex at two in the morning. Or perhaps has a little too much to drink on a second date and wept inconsolably while revealing how simply damaged one was, while nonetheless retaining an uncommonly large capacity for love. That kind of thing was, while regrettable, at least comprehensible. But waking up with someone generationally inappropriate, like your grandfather's best buddy?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Morning, Two, Decision

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.56, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

  Drew Barrymore

  Dad, Father, People

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

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• It's inappropriate for the queen of the dead to be afraid of ghosts.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Queens, Ghost

  MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unemployed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.134, Penguin

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• For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

  Anthony Weiner

  Past, Phones, Years

  "Breitbart: I Released Rep. Weiner Photos for 'Vindication'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2011.

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• After the tragedy of 9/11 we were on our way to becoming a fledgling Matriotic society until our leaders jumped on the bandwagon of inappropriate and misguided vengeance to send our young people to die and kill in two countries that were no threat to the USA or to our way of life. The neocons exploited patriotism to fulfill their goals of imperialism and plunder. This sort of patriotism begins when we enter kindergarten and learn the nationalist 'Pledge of Allegiance'. It transcends all sense when we are taught the 'Star Spangled Banner', a hymn to war.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, Stars, War

  "Matriotism" by Cindy Sheehan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2006.

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• I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.

  Robert Plant

  Dog, Men, Black

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• No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

  Hilda Solis

  Children, Health Education, Illegal

  "Protecting Children and Workers Around the Globe" by Sec. Hilda Solis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2010.

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• When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia - which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.

  Eric Holder

  Thinking, Philadelphia, People

  "Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'". www.politico.com. March 1, 2011.

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• It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.

  Rod Paige

  Running, School, Design

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• Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.

  Stanley Tucci

  Interesting, Feelings, Our Actions

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• If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Leadership, Real

  "A candid conversation with the sultan of software about outsmarting his rivals". Interview with David Rensin, tech-insider.org. July 1994.

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• It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is of another dimension altogether. For one thing, how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected? One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Needs, Dimensions, Moments

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.16, Vintage

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• Know your lover and what delights him or her, but also what he/she considers inappropriate. After all, you want to whet their appetite and create excitement, rather than make them upset.

  Laura Ramirez

  Sexy, Upset, Delight

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• I always, always want to make people laugh. In every situation. Even when it's inappropriate.

  Sharon Horgan

  People, Laughing, Want

  "The funniest woman you've never heard of" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2007.

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