#acceptable

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s. ↗

— Alex North

#arts #certain #countries #culture #down

I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#also #american #beetle #collection #collections

I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#because #daughter #disorder #eating #hollywood

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#against #appeals #conduct #deaf #destructive

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#hypocrisy #most #politeness

I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#am #because #conservative #element #finds

It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#acts #constitutional #especially #last #last year

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit. ↗

— Judith Wright

#addictions #alluring #aspect #attain #cases

From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy. ↗

— Edward Grey

#being #could #crushed #europe #france

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#british #eccentric #fat #longer #politics