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• Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Inappropriate Behavior, Levels, Lord

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• How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and uplift those around you. Profane, vulgar, or crude language and inappropriate or off-color jokes are offensive to the Lord. Never misuse the name of God or Jesus Christ. The Lord said, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain" (Ex. 20:7).

  Thomas S. Monson

  Uplifting, Jesus, Color

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• I'm known for my slightly inappropriate remarks.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Remarks, Known

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• I wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate but all-out. If I'm going to be sad, I might as well be the saddest a girl can get. And if I'm happy, I want to be the happiest. The trouble is, I feel highs so ecstatic that just being normal feels like a thousand-mile drop and being unhappy is excruciating.

  Emma Forrest

  Girl, Dancing, Unhappy

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Isabelle and Sebastian? Hardly. Sebastian’s a nice guy – Isabelle only likes dating thoroughly inappropriate boys our parents will hate. Mundanes, Downworlders, petty crooks…” “Thanks,” Simon said. “I’m glad to be classed with the criminal element.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Nice, Boys

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.866, Simon and Schuster

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• You've asked me out tons of times." "Not really. I've made inappropriate suggestions and frequently pushed for nudity. But I've never asked you out on a real date.

  Richelle Mead

  Real, Rose, Suggestions

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.261, Penguin

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• Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

  Bill Nye

  Teaching, Class, Alternatives

  "Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy’ Talks Creationism Critique, Religion, Education". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I have a lot of Twitter rules. I never swear on Twitter, and if anybody's inappropriate, I block them. I have young followers.

  Rachel Nichols

  Block, Followers, Young

  "Rachel Nichols Talks ALEX CROSS, How She Got Involved, Playing Strong Women, Fight Training with Her Co-Stars and Matthew Fox’s Transformation". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 19, 2012.

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• There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.

  Wentworth Miller

  People, Acting, Interaction

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• If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

  David Mamet

  Jobs, Writing, Political Opinions

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• I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about it now, and I think, 'Well, that may be inappropriate,' but it was great!'

  Margaret Cho

  Teacher, Art, School

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• I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

  Kathy Griffin

  Artist, People, Laughing

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• You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

  Jamie Dimon

  Looks, Lobbying, Way

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• When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Oscars, Fantastic

  "It's all gone widescreen". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2006.

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• I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

  Sandra Bullock

  Bending, Comedy, Gender

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• I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite, and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.

  Kirk Cameron

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• For the record, surgeries aren't pretty. there's a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking in on a naked parent. Only there's more gore. Bits are exposed that just shouldn't be out in the open, and they're covered in blood. Its embarrassing, disgusting, and unsettling all at the same time." Harry Dresden, Turn Coat.

  Jim Butcher

  Blood, Parent, Naked

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• Magnus shrugged. "He also made inappropriate amorous advances to a startled grandmotherly sort selling flowers, an Irish wolfhound, and innocent hat stand in a dwelling he broke into, and myself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flower, Dwelling, Hats

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.588, Simon and Schuster

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• The Beast Lord walked out of the warehouse. The screen went dark. My knight in furry armor. Saiman opened his mouth. "This is why I didn't. Personally, I think your smile is inappropriate.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dark, Thinking, Knights

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.169, Penguin

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• What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles, making her feel like a teenager being quizzed on her homework. Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word, they displayed towards her an attitude that was so antediluvian it was almost comical. You shouldn't worry your pretty head over complex matters, little girl.

  Steig Larsson

  Girl, Attitude, Teenager

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• Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, 'Wow, Really! You don't even know me and I don't know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.'

  Dwayne Johnson

  Tonight, Want, Wow

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• During the Prince's visit, King Timahoe will be referred to only as Timahoe, since it would be inappropriate for the Prince to be outranked by a dog.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Dog, Kings, Would Be

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• With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs.

  David Coverdale

  Song, Purple, Enough

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• The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries to protect its doctrines and institution instead of nurturing the evolution of consciousness. If one is not careful to distinguish the genuine insights of a religion from its irrelevant accretions, one can go through life following an inappropriate moral compass.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Faith, Business, Ideas

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.118, Penguin

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• Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, People, Kind

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