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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life. -- Cameron Diaz
Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free. -- Anthony Wayne
Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably. -- Meg Ryan
I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists. -- Brigitte Bardot
I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so. -- Colin Farrell
He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts. -- George Carman
I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy. -- Jim Sturgess
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? -- Jeff Goodell
My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic? -- Betty Ford
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'. -- Elizabeth Bishop
My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod. -- Steve Ballmer
My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved. -- Honor Blackman
It's important for me to treat a girlfriend with respect. My mum would be horrified if I behaved any differently - and I have sisters, and would hate for them to be treated badly by guys. -- Louis Tomlinson
It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices. -- Antony Beevor
When I was younger, I behaved a bit strangely sometimes - lost my temper, did silly things - but little by little, I've gotten better. As a chef, I think you need to do a lot of work on yourself and your temperament. -- Alain Ducasse
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness. -- David Nicholls
Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse! -- Nicole Scherzinger
I'm no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of performance and owning a song but I've never behaved like one in terms of the negative connotations of the word. -- Nicole Scherzinger
I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through. -- Rupert Murdoch
I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly. -- Caroline Knapp
I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet. -- Robert Redford
All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him. -- John Wayne
I have never stated Russia is an energy superpower, but we have more reserves than almost anybody else. We have always behaved, and we will continue to behave, in a responsible way. We intend to participate in the elaboration of common rules in the energy sector and to abide by rules which are developed together. -- Vladimir Putin
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear. -- Greg Boyle
Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family member or friend of the victim. When a young child is the victim, the attack almost always occurs in the family home, and the perpetrator is usually a 'good' dog that had not previously behaved in a menacing way. -- Jon Katz
I am not particularly well-behaved. -- Justin Welby
Well-behaved women seldom make history. -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
A well-behaved woman seldom makes history -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Well behaved women do not make history. -- Mae West
What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? -- Henry David Thoreau
If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive. -- B. F. Skinner
Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved. -- Sean Patrick Maloney
Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food. -- Calvin Trillin
I've always been told I was extremely well-behaved as a kid. -- Prince Andrew
Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening. -- Mason Cooley
Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. -- W.S. Gilbert
A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious. -- Mason Cooley
I'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up. -- Lesley Nicol
Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved. -- Winifred Holtby
The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors. -- Estelle
The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors. -- Estelle
You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. -- Douglas Conant
Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner. -- Pope Leo XIII
Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly. -- Aldous Huxley
You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into! -- Stephen Covey
I'm a disciplinarian. I'm the tough love pet owner. I believe in very well-behaved animals. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness. -- William Shenstone
English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are. -- Deborah Harkness
If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets. -- Tennessee Williams
No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved. -- Storm Jameson
I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans. -- Herman Wouk
Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important. -- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring. -- Helena Bonham Carter
... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet. -- Kurt Vonnegut
My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority. -- Jamelia
I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved. -- Allen Carr
I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved. -- Allen Carr
Part of obedience to the Golden Rule is knowing how to respond once you've behaved in an unloving way. -- Doug McIntosh
Groundhog Day is a lot like a rock concert but the people are better behaved and there's a groundhog involved, -- Tom Chapin
I challenge you to be the best you can be! I challenge you to behave in ways you've never behaved. -- Eric Thomas
We must stop being polite and behaved, and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority. -- Eve Ensler
When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse. -- Zoë Heller
I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry. -- Jose Carreras
The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events. -- Hans Frank
Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved. -- Peter S. Beagle
When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse. -- Zoë Heller
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out of it. -- Douglas Conant
The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say. -- Bui Diem
I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center. -- Deb Caletti
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. -- Aldous Huxley
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly. -- Lew Wallace
Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased. -- Francine Prose
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better. -- Anne Lamott
Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy. -- Ernestine Rose
It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult. -- Karen O
My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved. -- Robert Winston
That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to. -- Scott Westerfeld
if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well? -- Henry David Thoreau
A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave. -- Jack Donovan
I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did. -- Tom Sizemore
Iâ??m not interested in meeting management todayâ?¦ Iâ??m more interested in finding out how a person has behaved in the past. -- Bruce Berkowitz
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. -- Anne Lamott
Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women! -- Medea Benjamin
India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child. -- Karisma Kapoor
The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the skyâ??as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment. -- Kurt Vonnegut
When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren. -- Philip Yancey
My daughter always behaved in restaurants. And if she didn't, she's going out. I mean, one of the parents is going to take her outside. Immediately. -- Anthony Bourdain
In the morning fix thy good purpose; and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought. -- Thomas a Kempis
I fell a bit in love with Celtic, because the atmosphere was amazing and the crowd was magnificent, the way they behaved with the Porto fans. -- Jose Mourinho
Christ would not vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved, -- Alan Keyes
When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card. (Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington) -- Sophie Kinsella
If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it. -- Randall Terry
The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up. -- Amy Chua
The dog has behaved himself quite well all day, and the show is doing fantastically well in the ratings... I have no reason to be sad! -- Robert Stack
One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever behaved like a pop star. -- Chris Lowe
I don't think I've made a mistake. I think I have behaved in ways that I am proud of; I think I've behaved in ways I'm not. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another. -- Harry Mathews
That's my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn't like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better. -- Paula Hawkins
I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary. -- Marv Albert
What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm kind of desperately looking for those things that will... you know, sort of show my wilder side, in a way, my much more irreverent, badly behaved side. -- Rosamund Pike
I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass. -- Ronald Reagan
The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence. -- Malcolm Gladwell
But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking. -- Woody Allen
Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects. -- Elizabeth I
By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all. -- Claire Tomalin
I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different. -- Radha Mitchell
Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit. -- J. K. Rowling
I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could. -- Peter DeLuise
The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport. -- Kelley Armstrong
My parents are very well-behaved. If anything, if my Mom were here right now, she would hug and kiss every one of you hello, and then she would feed you. -- Tina Fey
I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change. -- Mickey Rourke
Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task. -- Emily Post
Mr. Speaker, there are some in this Chamber who believe that Christians, like well-behaved children, should be seen and not heard... Christians will not remain silent. We are here to stay. -- Tom DeLay
On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that. -- Octavia Butler
I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl, I shut the book. -- Beverly Cleary

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