Proper Quotes

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It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of… — James F. Cooper
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. — Michael Gove
My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class. — Anton du Beke
The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out. — Katy B
I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job. We've indulged you… — Kelly Brook
I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs. — Billy Crudup
My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless… — Billy Crudup
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship. — Juan Cole
I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an… — Jack Abramoff
Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions. — Anna Camp
I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press,… — Nick Clegg
There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make… — Thomas Cech
I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to… — Alan Davies
When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response is a horse-laugh.… — Jeff Greenfield
It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe, I can settle for being immortalised on screen. — Douglas Booth
I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had… — Tana French
All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down. — James Taylor
It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with… — Joan Robinson
I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito. — Ronald Ross
For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of… — Robert Hooke

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