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“There were more people against going into Iraq than there were going into the Falklands... but the shame I carry as a British resident, was that it was a war handled in the media as if it were a World Cup summer. Like when England go into the World Cup, there are Union Jacks on the papers, and you can look at headlines from the time and it sounded just like that. Ultimately, I was privy to footage from ITN archives - that wasn't shown on television - of the people we were fighting, and it was shameful. It was bullying. It was really horrible. How could we have been proud of winning that?”

People World War Fighting Winning Proud Summer Shame Horrible Bullying Shameful

Author:Shane Meadows

“It is true that ADs do not get a chance to get a chance to create or produce, almost never, because it's whole separate thing. Most creative producers you have to come up on the development side, you work with agents, you work with writers, you're in the office and then the AD's are on the set. But it's a real shame because part of - no decision in producing can be made correctly unless you have all the creative information you need but you also have all the budget and scheduling information you need.”

Real Chance Decision Creative Office Shame Producers

Author:Bruce Cohen

“"OK, well everyone makes a mistake, right?" But then when you think it probably happened again that's when you think: "Shame on you once and shame on me twice, or however that saying goes." But everyone's been down that road. It's not about the little things anymore, but the major things that tell you if you don't move on at that point then I'm a fool.”

Thinking Moving Mistake Fool Shame Little Things

Author:Michelle Monaghan

“My upbringing has been pushing and pulling my work my whole life. At first it pushed me away, as I sought to clean up my mind with a style that was slick and glossy, aspirational and wrapped in fantasy. That's still largely how I approach my fashion work. More recently it's pulled me back, particularly since Katrina, and as I get older and lose some of that shame that's inherited with poverty.”

Mind Poverty Fantasy Fashion Style Shame Whole Life Upbringing Katrina Slick

Author:Clayton James Cubitt

“I always kind of divided the gay guys I met up into two groups when I first started coming out. There were the guys who thought there was something fundamentally wrong with them and hated themselves and were so burdened with shame and internalized homophobia. It just really paralyzed and shredded them. And then there were guys like me who thought, "I'm fine, everybody else is crazy. My church is sick and the family's crazy, but me? I'm fine."”

Kind Guy Church Crazy Gay Sick Shame Hated Homophobia

Author:Dan Savage

“You know policy is driven purely in self interest. The Federal Reserve Bank and the commercial banks and the Wall Street banks are not acting in the interests of the population at large, they're acting purely in their own self-interest, which is a shame because they're actions dictate the reality for 300 million Americans. But they don't see it that way, they see it only as a way to preserve their own self-interest.”

Reality Action Interest Acting Policy Wall Shame Driven Self Interest Federal Reserve

Author:Max Keiser

“I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley. I think I'm more intrigued by characters who don't do the right thing and where we are allowed to identify with their shame/dishonesty/envy... whatever.”

Thinking Character Novel Shame Stranger Envy Right Thing Disgrace Dishonesty Intrigued Quicksand

Author:Danzy Senna

“In marriage people get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person. If you do want to hurt the other person, then shame on you - you're an asshole. My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.”

People Fighting Hurt Wife Shame Communicate My Wife Arguing

Author:Aaron Paul

“The urgency for me is to hurry up and become visible enough to either influence or shame other artists or corporations into understanding that there needs to be an equal starting block. You can't rush to make the changes. The rush that I have is to change the mindset of the people who can actually influence the situation in developed countries and in under - developed countries ... and not all under-developed countries need to develop. Maybe they just need to learn and be re - given the tools to understand how to use the land that they live on.”

People Country Enough Artist Understanding Situation Influence Equal Shame Mindset Block Urgency

Author:Aloe Blacc

“I'd love to make more money in America, that's the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It's a shame. I'm trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I'll be much happier.”

Trying Heart Shame

Author:Marianne Faithfull

“Shamefully, Mexico isn't a country that provides opportunities equally and democratically to everyone. Although there is a myth as well about that, because if you have something to tell, you will find a way to do it. You might get frustrated doing it but hey, that's the country we live in. I want the chance to live and experience the country that I come from. I keep struggling and fighting against these very seductive offers that require that I live somewhere else. It is a shame that it has to be like that. But you are young. If you don't have a family then there's no excuse. Try, at least.”

Trying Country Fighting Opportunity Chance Struggle Shame Excuse Myth Frustrated Seductive No Excuses

Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“I think it's a shame when pop culture forgets that theatricality is a big part of it. When Neil Young is fumbling around in his pocket looking for the right harmonica, it doesn't matter that he's a dude in the hat who is a man of the people - there's a theatricality there. You don't have to be David Bowie or the Kabuki theater to have that theatricality going on.”

People Thinking Men Culture Forget Shame Pop Culture

Author:Johnny Marr

“We need more than simply financial education. We need to re-orient ourselves mentally, in terms of what the American Dream is, and how we fit into it. And we have to adjust ourselves to understand that finances are not everything in life. That would go a long way, towards changing this winner-and-loser mentality. We have to - Allow people to feel that sense of success, so they won't feel the sense of shame.”

People Long Dream Term Fit Shame Financial Finance Mentality American Dream

Author:Neal Gabler

“People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when they are in a relationship? Shame, guilt, ignorance, reservation, prudishness, all kinds of different cultural systems and social stereotypes shroud sexuality in secrecy and in silence. And there's the romantic notion. "If I say in the beginning, that I am missing something, you are instantly going to think that means you are not enough."”

People Thinking Kind Mean Different Enough Silence Growing Up Missing Ignorance Shame Guilt Silent Sexuality All Kinds Stereotype Secrecy

Author:Esther Perel

“I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.”

Thinking Men Kind Situation Laughing Equal Difficulty Shame Election Presidential Dramatic Presidential Election

Author:Ai Weiwei

“When I was hospitalized in 1992 with severe clinical depression I thought I was the only one. I didn't know of one other Christian struggling with any form of mental illness. What I didn't know then was that there are thousands and thousands of men and women who love God yet are struggling alone, in silence, full of shame. This has to end. It's time to shine the brightest light into the darkest corners of the church”

Men Christian Church Silence Struggle Men And Women Shame Shining Illness Mental Illness God Love

Author:Sheila Walsh

“If guilt tells us that we've done something wrong, then shame tells us that we are something wrong. So many people feel isolated, not good enough, defined by the labels they wear rather than the identity they have in Christ. The love of Christ tells us that we're accepted; that we belong.”

People Done Enough Christ Identity Shame Guilt Accepted Good Enough Not Good Enough

Author:Sheila Walsh

“Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.”

Firsts Stills Light Beautiful Certain Dark Beauty Shame Relative Beautiful Women Light And Dark

Book:Paul Klee

Source: Paul Klee

“A lot of Manchester now - it's creating jobs and that's great, but some of the character is getting sucked out. There's good and bad, but our personal perspective is that it's just a shame. You in Chicago protect your buildings, we don't have that. You'll find a good building will get replaced by a horrible looking thing.”

Character Building Perspective Protect Shame Horrible Replaced Good And Bad

Author:Jez Williams

“I think there's over-telling sometimes, in fiction. For instance, I'm a big fan of horror movies, but I could always lose the last third of them. There's the brilliant exciting scary thing that's going on, and then they have to show you the monster, and the monster turns out to be a giant spider from space and then you push it over and it's dead. It becomes mortal and it has human needs and it always sort of feels like a shame. Maybe because of all the cop shows and such, we're a generation that needs to have problems solved for us in fiction.”

Thinking Sometimes Problem Horror Exciting Shame Scary Brilliant Cop

Author:Evie Wyld

“Healthy things grow, and growing things change. If we allow fear or doubt or shame or insecurity to hold us back from something new God is calling us to do, we may miss out on his greatest purpose for our life. As believers, we go from strength to strength, from glory to glory. And in order to keep expanding God's kingdom, we have to keep growing and trying new things.”

Trying Purpose Doubt Missing Healthy Glory Shame Believer Insecurity Something New Things Change

Author:Christine Caine

“You know, the elites always want to shame the poor - right? - and everyone else. I mean, the fact is, this economy is based on 70 percent of the people driving consumer demand. If people do not purchase goods and services, this economy will grind to recession. And that is why, if you are going to do a tax cut, it ought to really be aimed at low-income and middle-income people.”

People Mean Poor Economy Cutting Taxes Shame Driving Grind

Author:Keith Ellison

“It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.”

Should Matter Morning Bird Shame Awake Caliphs

Author:Abu Bakr

“A refusal of shame about sexual assault and the prioritization of speaking your mind while using your real name - instead of a pseudonym given to you by a journalist. Those ideas were soon taken up by Lena Dunham, Lady Gaga, and Kesha. And now, with Harvey Weinstein's unmasking, they've spread to the top of Hollywood.”

Mind Real Taken Shame Spread Journalist

Author:Vanessa Grigoriadis

“You look worldwide for the great leaders, and they're pretty thin on the ground, and of course the problem is unless you're squeaky, squeaky clean, something is going to come out of the cupboard. Most people aren't squeaky clean. Most people have fallen by the wayside once or twice in their lives, and because the world is so transparent now, I think they're very fearful of running for office. It's a huge shame, because often people who have really lived and are amazing people can be brought down by a past indiscretion.”

People Thinking World Problem Running Past Leader Office Shame Fallen Fearful Great Leader Amazing People

Author:Jeremy Irons

“The problem is when you become so well known that everyone is watching you and you don't have an opportunity to observe. It's something that I don't want to lose. I like being unnoticed when I don't feel like being noticed. It's not like I crave attention all the time. Something that I've always loved and appreciated is the chance to see something about someone's character, observe and kind of retain it, and study it without feeling like I'm studying it. I have an intense curiosity. And it would be a shame if I lose the ability to do that.”

Kind Character Feelings Problem Opportunity Chance Ability Attention Study Shame Curiosity Intense Well Known Appreciated Unnoticed

Author:Adrien Brody

“It's easier for our brains to have a list of rules and say, "If we keep these rules, we're in, and if we don't keep these rules, we're out." The problem with grace is that it doesn't play by the rules. It covers sin, and it washes away shame. It releases you from self-hatred. You then realize, through grace in Jesus, and believing in Jesus, and agreeing with Jesus, that you evidently were worth dying for.”

Believe Problem Jesus Realizing Sin Brain Grace Dying Shame

Author:Mark Lowry

“Growing up, I was constantly reminded to not to air our family's dirty laundry. Part of why domestic violence is allowed to continue is because there is often an unwritten rule in many families of abuse: Don't ask. Don't tell. Keeping quiet does no good. I found that sharing my story liberated me from my past. There is power in storytelling and, in that, healing. Owning my truth also empowered me. I will no longer be manipulated or controlled by guilt or shame.”

Past Healing Growing Up Violence Quiet Abuse Shame Guilt Storytelling Dirty Our Family Domestic Violence Empowered My Past Laundry

Author:Kambri Crews

“My father told me, "Don't do anything that would bring shame to the family." I was always mindful of that. When I told him I wanted to pursue a career as an actor, my father said, "Look at what you see on television at the movies, is that what you want to be doing? Do you want to make a life out of that?" And I said, "Daddy, I'm going to change it".”

Father Shame Daddy

Author:George Takei

“As a singer, I've always said, "Yes, I smoke weed," when I'm asked. Of course I say yes, because why wouldn't I smoke weed? There are many reasons not to, though not that many compared to the reasons to do it. I've always been open about it ... but people go, "Hippie! No, not listening to you," and I think that's a bloody shame.”

People Thinking Reason Listening Shame Weed Bloody Hippie

Author:Joss Stone

“Sometimes a poem starts because I feel the urge to write about something from which I carry a great deal of shame, and I try to sketch out in writing how I am complicit in whatever dynamic it is I am illuminating. And sometimes it comes later, when I step back and challenge myself - am I being honest here?”

Writing Trying Sometimes Challenges Honest Shame Being Honest

Author:Bao Phi

“I'll never, never understand why people think it's their business to comment on other people's bodies. I go to a spa in LA sometimes, a Korean day spa, and all the women there are nude. And I've never felt so in love with the human form as when I'm walking around and seeing all those bodies, thinking, Oh my god, we're all just built so differently. And every single body is beautiful. I will never understand that shame, and the reinforcement of that shame. It's crazy.”

People Thinking Sometimes Beautiful Crazy Walking Shame Comment Korean

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“Sexuality is so much more complex than our boobs. My sexuality isn't me as an object to be looked at. It's the way I say "hello" to somebody, the way I sit with somebody. A body is just a body. But we're really afraid of bodies. They hold a lot of power - I think that's why people can try to shame them so easily, because they are so powerful.”

People Thinking Trying Powerful Shame Sexuality Hello

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having. Where I would usually backspace, I stop and say, "You know what? This is important, that I say how I feel and don't sugarcoat it, and don't avoid it." In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.”

Writing Trying Kind Important Shame Writing Process

Author:Morgan Parker

“When I was asked: "Will shame do it?" Meaning: Will welfare people be shamed into getting respectable work? And I said that shame plays the biggest role there is: The biggest shame is that there is so much abundance around but that so many have so little and so few have so much. That's the shame.”

People Shame Welfare Abundance Respectable

Author:Studs Terkel

“A Dirty Shame was a crazy movie. I don't understand that movie at all. I don't get it, but I'd work with John Waters again in a heartbeat. He's just a delight.”

Water Crazy Shame Dirty Heartbeat

Author:Selma Blair

“It's hard to appreciate success in modeling, because it's not something you feel like you've earned, so there is a little bit of bread of shame that comes with that. It's like somebody giving you a puzzle that's already put together.”

Giving Feels Littles Hard Together Bits Like You Little Bit Appreciate Shame Bread Puzzles Modeling

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music, you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have.”

Ifs Thinking Matter Young Actors Acting Havens Terrible Fame Musician Ethics Shame Bottom Crafts Work Ethic Great Work Terrible Things Young Actors Great Work Ethic

Author:Denis Leary

“The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.”

Today School Shame American History Curriculum School Curriculum

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.”

Harder Shame Work Harder

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.”

Feels I Can Terrible Dating Shame Guilt Disappointment Punishment Nightmare Persecution Reproach

Author:John Mayer

“To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.”

Mean Able Decision Ego Shame Surrender Godly Falsity

Author:James McGreevey

“The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.”

Desire Hate Voice Ignorance Prejudice Anger Shame Ignored Biased

Author:Karl A. Menninger

“Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.”

Shows Attitude Behavior Shame Blame Disgrace Reproach Disrespectful Disapproval

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.”

Thinking Feels Trying Has Beens Ideas Ends Hate Culture Space Sadness Taught Grew Grew Up Connections Towns Shame Aesthetic Sentimental Promoting

Author:Mike Mills

“Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.”

Ifs Important Problem Felt Our Lives Sadness Bigger Shame Important Things Ashamed Unattractive Bigger Problems

Author:Mike Mills

“Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?”

Men Doe Dog Gratitude Shame Ungrateful Benefactors

Book:Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

Source: Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

“Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.”

Should Dog Should Have Shame Coaches Enthusiasm Boundless Life Coach

Author:Moby

“Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.”

Thinking Speak Shame Ashamed Candor

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.”

Feels Humans Might Levels Fields Shame Keep Going Being Human Compelled Transparent Playing Fields Level Playing Field

Author:Alanis Morissette

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