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• There's a lot of pressure on women to fulfill certain fantasies. They expect you to be a little bit of a tart, to flirt with all the men. A lot of women do it. But I'm not doing that. I talk with these guys about their wives and kids right away. When they say inappropriate things, I let them, because boys will be boys, but I'm not looking to participate in their conversations.

  Jessica Alba

  Women, Kids, Flirting

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• The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical phases and, when applied synchronically to the conditions of a bourgeois society that is industrially advanced and constituted as a social-welfare state, they fuse into a clouded amalgam. Yet the very conditions that make the inherited language seem inappropriate appear to require these words, however confused their employment.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Confused, Historical, Employment

  "Space, Place, and Environmental Ethics". Book by Andrew Light, 1997.

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• Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery for dummies in 21 days or whatever. It's just plain inappropriate, and it's intentionally out of people's reach.

  Erik Naggum

  Book, People, Association

  "Is LISP dying?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. July 15, 1999.

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• Men are shallow - we don't remember things like women do. Or we don't bring it up and blurt it out at inappropriate moments. When bridges are trying to be built, we don't detonate them.

  Steve Lillywhite

  Men, Bridges, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Cosmopolis is the movie of my life. I didn't consider myself an actor before, even if I had 10 years of acting behind me. I always felt like a fraud, and inappropriate. I doubt a lot. David Cronenberg gave me confidence in myself. He changed my way of acting and thinking in this industry.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Years, Doubt

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• Sometimes I will tweet things without an audience in mind at all, just because I want to say something that I don't feel I can say otherwise. Those tweets have a specific sense of desperation to them, because I write them when I feel like I don't have anyone else to talk to - as if Twitter is the only thing that will accept my insanely inappropriate thoughts without judgement.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Writing, Judgement, Mind

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.

  James H. Austin

  Self, Objectivity, Brain

  James H. Austin (2011). “Meditating Selflessly: Practical Neural Zen”, p.12, MIT Press

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• I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

  Bojana Novakovic

  Laughing, Humour

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• Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

  Winifred Holtby

  Animal, Names, Dumb

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• I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost was that I was chronically overloaded, weary, and short of time for politicking, smoothing ruffled feathers, and simply resting.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Thinking, Cost, Done

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.205, Grove Press

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• Dark humor appealed to me because it was a bigger laugh than you could get with anything else. Seeing people laugh at something inappropriate with their whole bodies, a guttural, visceral laugh beyond a mere "hah."

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Dark, People, Laughing

  "Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

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• In the light we can see what is and what is not. We know what is right and what is inappropriate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Dharma

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• I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment. For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society.

  Joe Biden

  Matter, Judgment, Moments

  "Meet the Press" with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. September 7, 2008.

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• We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.

  Hugh Hefner

  America, Mind, Church

  Source: nsarchive.gwu.edu

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• We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

  Carl Pope

  Oil, America, Lines

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• There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.

  Calvin Trillin

  Writing, Source, Plus

  "Not Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin" by Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were having a devil of a time selling it. It ended up in the hands of an editor of a children's publishing house, for which it was entirely inappropriate. She said, "Well, we can't publish this, but I think you should write something for children," which I thought was a really terrible idea.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Writing, School

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I apologize to everyone who was offended by my insensitive tweet about the situation in Egypt. I've dedicated my life to raising awareness about serious social issues, and in hindsight my attempt at humor regarding a nation liberating themselves against oppression was poorly timed and absolutely inappropriate.

  Kenneth Cole

  Egypt, Issues, Serious

  "Egypt protests". www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2011.

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• Under the current system, all children under 17 are treated equally. However, while some films may be appropriate for older children to see with parental accompaniment, some are inappropriate for younger children under any circumstances. This problem needs to be addressed.

  Rob Reiner

  Children, Needs, May

  "Senate panel rates entertainment ratings". www.cnn.com. July 25, 2001.

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• Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change.

  Richard G. Scott

  Selfish, Character, Thinking

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• If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, Superstitions, Too Much

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.298, Ballantine Books

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• Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Pride, Self, Healthy

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “A Leader's Heart: 365-Day Devotional Journal”, p.130, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that it’s inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are we protecting? Children who see their primary caregivers at ease expressing their affection (discreetly, within appropriate boundaries) are more likely to embrace sexuality with the healthy combination of respect, responsibility, and curiosity it deserves. By censoring our sexuality, curbing our desires, or renouncing them altogether, we hand our inhibitions intact to the next generation.

  Esther Perel

  Children, Kids, Responsibility

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• There is no bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Weather, Clothings, Bad Weather

  "6 Simple Tricks to Have a Better Winter" by Kayla Matthews, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2016.

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• Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reflection, Today, Glee

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