Mary Whitehouse Quotes
Bad language coarsens the whole quality of our life. It normalises harsh, often indecent language, which despoils our communication.
Mary Whitehouse
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
Paige VanZant
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
Abraham Lincoln
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
Kate Mosse
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
Jack McBrayer
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
Vera Farmiga
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
Yoshihiko Noda
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.
Nancy E. Turner
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I feel like only now in my life do I really get it -- do I feel that sense of calm. And I feel very grounded. I feel much more confident. I feel, you know, sexier, more intelligent, more to offer, more wisdom, more life experience to draw from.
Sela Ward
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The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
Alastair Campbell
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Lawyers can make the worse appear the better cause, as though they were fresh from Leontine schools, and have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.
Lawyer
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Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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Bad language coarsens the whole quality of our life. It normalises harsh, often indecent language, which despoils our communication.
Mary Whitehouse
