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“I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.”

People Knows Firsts Three Names Millions Ten First Time Shame Sells Albums Copies

Author:Gerry Beckley

“I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.”

Self Body Girl Three Pages Conscious Shame Frustrated Self Conscious

Author:Susannah Constantine

“An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not discovered. But our two-year-olds and our three-year- olds experience guilt feelings only when they feel or anticipate disapproval from the outside. In doing this, they have taken the first steps toward the goal of conscience, but there is a long way ahead before the policeman outside becomes the policeman inside.”

“One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.”

Men Two Law Political Three Shame Congress Useless Firm Law Firms

Author:John Adams

“My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.”

Source: War and Other Essays

“Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.”

People Ifs World Looks Today Three Half Six Shame Financial Population Billions Finance Gambling Globes Loan Financial System

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“The toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. It’s a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they do on films. It’s natural to make decisions that protect the toy business, but that’s not the best thing for making quality films.”

Film Three Natural Decision Quality Protect Shame Best Things Empires Toys Three Times

Author:Gary Kurtz

“As a people, we value family, education and success. Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies have demonstrated that even brief periods of hunger can permanently inhibit a child's mental, emotional and physical growth. Kids who are hungry do poorly in school and are unlikely to grow into productive adults. For families, experiencing hunger means living in a world of isolation and shame. Caring citizens must put an end to this disgrace.”

“If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.”

Ifs Needs Three Grows Silence Amount Judgment Empathy Shame Ingredients Dishes Secrecy

Author:Brené Brown

“I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.”

Knows Trying Hard Guy Three Equal Female Shame Comedian Staff Standing Out Female Comedian

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Don't be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone's bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don't hurt anybody, what's it matter how dopey your dream is? If I hadn't made TUSK? If I'd let it die as a podcast? I wouldn't have three other movies I'm now making within the span of a year. Some folks will try to shame you for trying something outside the norm; the only shame is in not trying to accomplish your dreams.”

Ifs Trying Years Long Made Matter Dream Dies Three Stuff Hurt Stupid Shame Folks Accomplish Your Dreams Norm Weird Stuff Trying Something

Author:Kevin Smith

“To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.”

Knows Men World States Character Three Practice Know How Knowing Draws Shame Three Things Benevolence Vigor Confucianism

Author:Confucius

“Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?”

May Mean Different Ends Three Sin Cases Shame Add Lust Sensuality Hopeless Weary Three Times Exceptional Dupes Recapitulation

Author:Remy de Gourmont