- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disapproval Quotes
On facing disapproval - from family, society, and public protest.
These disapproval quotes explore how judgment shapes personal choices, from cultural shame around sex and contraception to family members disapproving of a parent's match. See Being quotes for more.
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- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Changing our consumer behaviour is similar to quitting smoking. Unless people are shocked into doing it, either by social disapproval or family disapproval or fear of the medical consequences, they'll just keep on smoking.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that group's 20/50 vision also had it tsking its disapproval about Michael Keaton as Batman and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at a Congress that has an 84 percent disapproval rating, that means that for the most part, the people of this country, and certainly California, are looking for new leadership.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is this rage on campuses about Donald Trump and - as someone who has written pretty explicitly about my disapproval of Trump - I can sympathize with that.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020