Lecturing Quotes - Page 2

• My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about this, I tend to put it all down as habit or it's just acting.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Wife, Acting, Weak Spots

  "Anthony Hopkins Talks Fracture". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. April 17, 2007.

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• The truth is you cannot command the respect of the world when you spend years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends. Lecturing the American people about the Crusades while refusing to call Islamic extremism by name is an abdication of leadership.

  Mike Pence

  Islamic, Years, Names

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing at universities at 18, and I think that was mainly because web developing and management was a really young industry.

  Matt Mickiewicz

  Thinking, People, Age

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• My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reform, Use, Pay

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.54, Graphic Arts Books

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• I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Children, Long

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he's lecturing us about how America's gone "soft"? Really?

  Jonah Goldberg

  College, Years, America

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• Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

  William J. Clinton

  Family, Government, Politician

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• I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.

  Bel Kaufman

  Teaching, Writing, Long

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• Romney, Gingrich, Santorum spent their week lecturing America about the morality of birth control. You know, you guys don't need birth control, you are birth control.

  Bill Maher

  America, Guy, Needs

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• I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturing me, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He might be the wisest of men, or the most powerful - I should equally rebel and resent his interference.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Powerful, Men, Independence

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.614, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.

  Maureen Johnson

  Cat, Brooks

  Maureen Johnson (2013). “The Key To The Golden Firebird”, p.30, Hot Key Books

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• I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.

  James Patterson

  Fun, Believe, Reading

  Scholastic Book Fairs Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

  Simon Cowell

  Country, People, Forgive Me

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• I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.

  Simon Cowell

  People, Hated

  "Simon Cowell's Sun sermon decoded" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2010.

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• The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.

  Paul Krugman

  Feelings, United States, Investing

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• Don't come lecturing us about liberty. You need a reality check. Don't act like a spoiled rude child. Here you will only find dignity and sovereignty. Here we haven't invaded anyone. Here we don't torture like in Guantanamo. Here we don't have drones killing alleged terrorist without any due trial, killing also the women and children of those supposed terrorists. So don't come lecturing us about life, law, dignity, or liberty. You don't have the moral right to do so.

  Rafael Correa

  Children, Reality, Law

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• Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions." She was lecturing him, so she stopped. "Sorry. Hang around with Bran too long, and see if you don’t start passing around the Marrok’s advice as if he were Confucius.

  Patricia Briggs

  Sorry, Evil People, Long

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.147, Penguin

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• There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Writing, Unique, Men

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Expression, People

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• I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Art, Creating, Stories

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• Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend. All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II. Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?

  Adam Hochschild

  War, Years, Museums

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm a believer that there are three fundamental ways that you can think about education. They're being a professor upfront, lecturing, telling what's inside your head, some case studies in which you are in discussion and also an action based learning.

  Robert J. Dolan

  Thinking, Three, Fundamentals

  Source: bigthink.com

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• it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They inveigh against the governments of Europe, because, as they say, they favor the powerful and oppress the weak. ... [yet] you will see them with one hand hoisting the cap of liberty, and with the other flogging their slaves. You will see them one hour lecturing their mob on the indefeasible rights of man, and the next driving from their homes the children of the soil, whom they have bound themselves to protect by the most solemn treaties.

  Frances Trollope

  Children, Honesty, Powerful

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• My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mom, Zoos, Men

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• When your party is controlled by a billionaire rootless international financier who expresses 'no sense of guilt' for collaborating with the Nazis, you might want to ease up on lecturing the rest of us about the evil rich.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Evil, Guilt

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