My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
None of us should play party to any corporate warfare. We cannot become pawns in the hands of corporate giants’ warfare to constantly bully the government, to throw misinformation to the public, tell part-truth and part-story to the public.
Bully pulpit of the presidency is really tough to fight.
If a guy can bully you, he will bully you.
My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.
If a bully wants to beat you up, you have the choice of running away or standing your ground. In our society, we have police forces who try to control bullies, sometimes by force.
I’ve always been the biggest bully to myself.
You can’t stand for too many things. You can’t use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.
I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.
I got bullied so much at 11 and 12 that I became the bully. I didn’t want to get bullied no more. And that just carried on through my life.
I never want to be an artistic bully, and put myself above anyone else… or be more prestigious than anyone else. You like what you like, and you have to take that as you want it.
It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.
