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“I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.”

People Want Shows Challenges Shame Fats Thought Provoking Provoking Disturbing Wrinkles Provocative

Author:Judy Dater

“I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.”

People Thinking Whole Doubt Shame Whole Life

Author:Dolly Parton

“I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.”

Made Matter Care Difficult Numbers Ego Shame Disappointed No One Cares Being Disappointed

Author:Christopher Walken

“You know, we'll hardly get our feet out of time [and] into eternity that we'll bow our heads in shame and humiliation. We'll gaze on eternity and say, 'My God! Look at all the riches there were in Jesus Christ, and I've come to the Judgment Seat almost a pauper!”

Knows Looks Jesus Christ Feet Judgment Jesus Christ Eternity Shame Riches Seats Bows Humiliation

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.”

People Ifs World Should Firsts Littles Play Jobs Information Shame Angry Impression Release Interviews Chests Google First Impression Job Interview

Author:Patrick Stump

“Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.”

Joy Creativity Struggle Shame Core Vulnerability Belonging Worthiness Birthplace

Author:Brené Brown

“We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer.”

Should School Prayer Shame Contemplative Contemplative Prayer

Author:Richard J. Foster

“I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist like me to think I am a better writer than Cole Porter. I think it is important to realize what my strengths are. I do like to write and I'm not shabby but I don't think I'm the most brilliant writer. I think it would be a shame and sort so egotistical to say I don't need these wonderful writers. These men created works of art and wrote hundreds of beautiful songs. It would be a mistake for me to say at this point in my career that I am so good.”

Thinking Men Needs Writing Art Important Would Be Beautiful Artist Song Realizing Mistake Careers Records Wonderful Shame Originals Brilliant Like Me Works Of Art Egotistical Shabby

Author:Michael Buble

“A lot of movements use women's involvement to shame men when recruitment is sagging.”

Men Use Movement Shame Involvement Recruitment Sagging

Author:Mia Bloom

“The Cuban public is hugely cinephile. It's a shame that most of the movie theaters are so deteriorated. The sense of spectacle has been lost a little, but even so, people continue to go.”

People Littles Has Beens Lost Theater Shame Cuban Movie Theater

Author:Fernando Perez

“The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.”

Secret Talking Loneliness Shame Vulnerability Hopelessness Antidote

Author:Jewel

“Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.”

People Want Hard Social Anxiety Shame Painful Illness Mental Illness Closeness Proximity Social Anxiety

Author:Adam Duritz

“Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the war. And that's what we set out to do. What was not ended by the anti-war movement was ended by the Vietnamese. That's our shame.”

May Long War Ends Running Streets Movement Tears Shame Gas Throwing Anti War Hippie Vietnamese Anti War Movement

Author:Bill Ayers

“In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.”

Shame Idleness

Author:Hesiod

“A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.”

Suffering Evil Shame Repentance True Repentance

Book:Aphorisms from Shakespeare

Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare

“A dog has no shame. If he can do it, you can watch.”

Ifs Can Do Watches Dog Shame

Author:George Carlin

“It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.”

Should Persons Form Law President Dangerous Shame Prison Guilt Guilty Shame And Guilt Guilty Person

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

“Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.”

Shame Hypocrisy Inward Acknowledgment

Author:Norm MacDonald

“It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.”

Knows Men Creatures Shame Living Creatures

Author:Faina Ranevskaya

“Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.”

People Lines Common Virtue Trouble Shame Guides Punishment Reform Rite

Book:Confucius: The Analects

Source: Confucius: The Analects

“Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.”

Individual Shame Judgement Barriers

Author:Rebecca Walker

“Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.”

World Asks Shame Competition Collaboration

Author:Amanda Palmer

“It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.”

Running Car Shame Cognitive Dissonance Cognitive Dissonance

Author:Lewis Black

“Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.”

Acting Doubt Shame Encounters Worth It Humiliation

Author:David Mamet

“There is no shame in preferring happiness.”

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Author:Albert Camus

“How vast the benefits divine which we in Christ possess! We are redeemed from guilt and shame and called to holiness. But not for works which we have done, or shall hereafter do, hath God decreed on sinful men salvation to bestow.”

Men Done Christ Divine Benefits Shame Salvation Guilt Holiness Hereafter Redeemed

Author:Augustus Toplady

“There's so much shame involved in not being like everyone else. But I learned that the things that made me unique were good. Dealing with problems can be awful. But in the end I got positive results. I don't think I would have been a writer if I didn't have anxiety.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Made Ends Problem Results Involved Anxiety Unique Shame Awful Positive Results Dealing With Problems

Author:Jenny Lawson

“People didn't feel so much shame around it and that they didn't feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing that people have given me a lot of feedback about - something I'm very excited about - is all the stuff around chemo as an "empathetic warrior."”

People Feels Given Stuff Shame Excited Warrior Humiliation Feedback Empathetic

Author:Eve Ensler

“I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.”

Ifs Feels Artist Secret Shame Embarrassed

Author:Mark Hoppus

“If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.”

Ifs Humans Persons Moments Realizing Ordinary Shadow Consequence Shame Encounters Concrete Burned Discomfort Hiroshima Complicity Ordinary Person

Author:Chris Abani

“I'd listen to things that felt really good in the moment and realize they were clouded by enthusiasm or caffeine. And things that I was struggling to get out ended up being really compelling. It's an emotional roller coaster; there's exhilaration and there's shame.”

Moments Felt Realizing Struggle Emotional Shame Enthusiasm Being Real Compelling Caffeine Roller Coaster Coasters Clouded Exhilaration

Author:Annie E. Clark

“FAQ regarding my book were not about my use of commas or how the images went berserk, but about the political situation in Bosnia, about guilt and shame, about victims and perpetrators, about reasons, arguments and beliefs that led to the conflict in the first place, etc. All of this needed and still needs answering and ongoing discussions, but I mostly felt overwhelmed and unqualified to articulate anything worth more than personal experiences of the siege, of fear and refuge - all the things which I wrote about anyway.”

“That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you should have considered that before you hopped into bed with a writer.”

Ifs World Should Said Knowing Possibility Bed Should Have Shame Filled

Author:Kevin Keck

“Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?”

Ifs Thinking World Way Book Different Used Existence Responsibility Moral Audience Reader Picks Shame Different Ways Realms Lazy Moral Responsibility

Author:Kevin Keck

“That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.”

People World Ends Would Be Able Poverty Worst Shame Hungry Global Poverty

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“If there's not someone in your social circle who doesn't look like you, then shame on you.”

Ifs Looks Social Like You Shame Circles Shame On You

Author:Leigh Anne Tuohy

“We're talking about everybody's free right to have choice. And so what we're also getting are interesting messages like you really need to obey the command of Allah and put a scarf on your head. And what we caution well-intentioned Americans and others to think about is whether the scarf matches their own values related to issues of honor and shame.”

Thinking Needs Wells Values Choices Interesting Talking Issues Like You Honor Messages Shame Command Related Caution Scarves

Author:Asra Nomani

“These nutbags, like Santorum and Bachmann, who make these people and especially young gay kids feel miserable, shame on them. They're quacks. I would never vote for them. I wouldn't even listen to them because there but for the grace of God go they.”

People Feels Kids Young Grace Gay Vote Shame Miserable Grace Of God Quacks

Author:Howard Stern

“I have received many touching letters and emails from people who live in the most religious parts of the country, in places like rural Texas, saying it is so good to see someone be able to say I am an atheist without shame.”

People Country Able Religious Letters Shame Atheist Texas Touching Email

Author:Susan Jacoby

“I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.”

Thinking Men Should Humans Bits Human Beings Men And Women Shame Worthy Consistent Bitterness Angst Respect Each Other

Author:Delia Sherman

“I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it.”

World Want Years Grows Growing Up Shame Judged Twins Holding Back Being Judged

Author:Rib Hillis

“Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week." It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame.”

Knows World Want Persons Hands School Lasts Stuff Week Figures Politician Republican High School Shame Democrat Compromise Petty Pointing Juniors Junior High

Author:Ice Cube

“And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's based on sexual transmission. And it's still shame-based. And until people feel strong enough and feel loved enough to actually open up and say, listen, I'm HIV-positive, then we are facing an uphill battle.”

People Feels Years Stills Enough Strong Changed Battle Disease Shame Strong Enough Hiv Stigma Transmission Hiv Positive Uphill Battles

Author:Elton John

“But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].”

People Battle Shame Aids Tested Uphill Battles

Author:Elton John

“There's a level of shame attached to our history, and we need to replace that shame with pride and own our history. These are our superheroes. These are our people, and I would love to see us own this side of our history with pride.”

People Needs Sides Levels Pride Shame Superhero

Author:Jurnee Smollett

“We just did a bunch of songs, and there was a lot of enthusiasm for the songs that we made. We didn't feel like we had to do Miike Snow. We just did it because, I mean, I guess we felt like it would be a bit of a shame to leave it where we left it.”

Feels Mean Made Would Be Song Left Felt Bits Shame Bunch Snow Enthusiasm

Author:Andrew Wyatt

“Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal shame, something it seems she would want us to forget (but no one would forget). (Maybe an interesting "discussion question" for readers of Complicated Grief might be, "What do Terry Barton and Miss Havisham have in common?"?)”

“Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of the disease - and the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic is edifying, isn't it? Shame shuts down productive thinking, and I'd like to open the doors. It's a first step.”

Thinking Firsts Names Steps Doors Disease Shame Cancer Aids Cures Ashamed Productive First Steps Epidemics Trajectory Aids Epidemic

Author:Laura Mullen

“Child abuse is one of those issues that's very difficult to talk about because it's surrounded by guilt and shame and so on, but us avoiding that issue doesn't help those kids in need out there who need support.”

Needs Children Helping Kids Difficult Support Issues Abuse Shame Guilt Child Abuse Avoiding

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.”

Thinking World Kind Different Country Would Be Influence Rocks Unique Advantage India Shame Jazz China Pops Classical Music Pop Music Rock Music Pretension Different Countries World Music

Author:Rokia Traore

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