Of course, when people work together, there can be tension and disagreement. But policing informal behavior makes it hard for people to speak freely for fear they will say the wrong thing. Even self-aware individuals can doubt their judgement and start to rely on the diversity trainer to judge if something is offensive.
I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I'm just mobbin like that.
I think with the kids I get to be a little more fun and goofy, which is kinda how I am all the time.
Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.
In my day-to-day life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like being comfortable.
I don't play the sport for fame. I don't try to win tournaments for fame. I don't do any of that. It's just me. I'm just Bubba. I goof around. I joke around. I just want to be me and play golf.
I'm pretty clean, hygienic and all that, but sometimes when I come home, I throw my coat over there, take one shoe off here, one shoe off there, but I'm not dirty.
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
I'm a sloucher, sort of, when nobody's looking.
I'm really casual.
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.
I must admit I like to muck around a bit; I always have.
Donald Trump is a pretty casual guy. He calls me Paul.
People read informality as, 'Do whatever you feel like,' and whatever you feel like might be disastrous.