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“I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.”

Persons Motivational Guy Found Speak Player Safe Basketball Shy Skinny Reserved Safe Places Place In Life

Author:Bill Walton

“I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.”

Kids Basketball Originals Shy Ghetto Depraved

Author:Bob Cousy

“I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.”

People Mean Matter Sound Shy Mean People Inhibitions Captivating

Author:Eric Clapton

“So where did these cravings come from? I concluded it's the baby ordering in. Prenatal takeout. Even without ever being in a restaurant, fetuses develop remarkably discerning palates, and they are not shy about demanding what they want. If they get a hankering, they just pick up the umbilical cord and call. 'You know what would taste good right now? A cheeseburger, large fries, and a vanilla shake. And if you could, hurry it up, because I'm supposed to grow a lung in a half hour.'”

“Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school.”

People Feels Should Firsts Ends School Mother Born Ability Daughter Advantage Welfare Shy

Author:Gwen Moore

“Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.”

Animal Cat Shy Secretive

Author:Leonard Michaels

“The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the useable process, the medicine, the machine. The shy fruit of pure science is understanding.”

Science Process Understanding Pure Machines Accounts Aim Medicine Fruit Shy Harvest Pragmatic Applied Science

Author:Lincoln Barnett

“I was so shy. Instead of waiting in line with other kids at lunch, I'd go to a corner and buy a pretzel and orange juice. I think I had that for lunch the first three years of high school.”

Thinking Years Firsts Kids School Three Waiting Lines High School Corners Shy Lunch Three Years Orange Juice Orange Juice Pretzels Waiting In Line

Author:Peter Facinelli

“The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, not should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred.”

“From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.”

Character Girl Struggle Trouble Maturity Shy Frightened Resolute Shy Girl

Author:Anna Dostoyevskaya

“Mother my friends are no longer my friends And the games we once played have no meaning I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why So they've left me to my own daydreaming.”

Mother Games Left My Own Gone Figures Serious My Friends Shy Daydreaming Friendship Lyrics

Author:Suzanne Vega

“I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.”

Born Scared Complicated Shy Chests Retiring Provocative

Author:Dorothy Allison

“One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.”

Names Bears Memorable Shy Ballet Undertakings Questionable

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded.”

Wells Order Nature Secret Backgrounds Shy Halfway Guarded

Book:The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

“Don't be shy about believing in your ideas - even if folks around you think you're crazy.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Ideas Business Crazy Folks Entrepreneurship Shy

Author:Tim Westergren

“Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.”

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.”

Men Friendship Active Peaceful Lazy Shy Modest Prudent Magnetism Impetuous

Book:Vanity Fair

Source: Vanity Fair

“I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.”

Persons Hands Type Shy Hipster Shy Person

Book:An Abundance of Katherines

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a good idea. Because, you know, it's very shy, too. But once you've got the essence of them, you can work songs and improve them. You see if there's a better word, or a better change.”

Ifs Knows Ideas Might Happens Song Too Much Magic Essence Shy Songwriting Good Ideas Intangible

Author:Tom Petty

“Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.”

Artist Mets Like Me Shy Engineers Introvert Inventor Introverted Working Alone

Book:iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon

Source: iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon

“I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.”

Feels Children Would Be Party Fine Nervous Birthday Shy My Birthday Birthday Party

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.”

Fun Mysterious Shy Adventurous Fun Loving

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause”

Causes Shy Embarrassing Good Causes

Author:David Cook

“I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.”

Ifs I Can Guy Speak Red Shy Embarrassing Because I Can Guy I Like

Author:Silvia Colloca

“Im a shy person. I contradict my own profession, because Im an introvert in a very glamorous world.”

World Persons My Own Profession Shy Introvert Glamorous Shy Person

Author:Deepika Padukone

“I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.”

Ifs Years Hollywood Damn Shy Shyness

Author:Lucille Ball

“I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.”

Long School Doubt Long Time Teenager Shy Frightened Freak Inhibitions

Author:Winona Ryder

“I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.”

People Kids Quiet Shy Toys Introvert Hanging Around

Author:Christian Slater

“I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.”

Thinking I Can Sometimes Half Depends Shy Shells

Author:Emile Hirsch

“If you're shy, get the hell over it: You're slamming the door in your own face.”

Ifs Faces Hell Doors Shy Over It

Author:Kimora Lee Simmons

“I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.”

People Trying Said I Can Overcoming Shy

Author:Ben Whishaw

“I'm hideously shy as myself but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.”

I Can Running Stage Fishes Naked Shy Bites

Author:Laurie Metcalf

“I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.”

People Crowds Shy Not Happy

Author:Glenn Close

“I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.”

School Boys Crush Shy Lively

Author:Blake Lively

“I'm definitely shy, so it was definitely acting for me to drop a trench coat and be in a bikini and try to get my cousins out of trouble by using my body. That was definitely acting.”

Trying Body Acting Trouble Shy Coats Cousin Trenches My Cousin Bikinis Trench Coats

Author:Jessica Simpson

“There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.”

Actors Rooms Acting Mets Connections Intimacy Shy Polite Immediate Connection

Author:Jessica Chastain

“I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.”

Sometimes Strong Voice Clear Shy

Author:Hakeem Olajuwon

“I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.”

Guy Tough Shy Squash Shy Guy

Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“I’m just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I’m happy. Not sad. I’m just shy and nervous.”

Kind Persons Real Dark Yeah Nervous Shy Loner

Author:Clea DuVall

“I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, without really being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, 'I've got something on the stove, gotta go!”

People Persons Appearance Kitchen Shy Being There Stoves Making People Happy Shy Person

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus”

Ifs Way Want Whole Happens Jobs Used Focus Fame Shy Arena Publicity Tabloids

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.”

Kind Children Attention Shy

Author:Little Richard

“I say I’m not shy, but… Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you’ve got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.”

Acting Vulnerable Shy Judged Putting Yourself Out There

Author:Shemar Moore

“I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.”

People Ifs Easier Cameras Communicate Shy

Author:Dennis Hopper

“I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'”

Thinking Want Sometimes Pockets Shy Handkerchiefs Showy

Author:Jude Law

“In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.”

Years Home School Comedy Quiet Shy Freak Juniors Junior Year Junior Year Of High School

Author:Dane Cook

“Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.”

Children Bits Shy Flamboyant

Author:Catherine Tate

“A bunch of six nicer people, I couldn’t be more fortunate to call my family — from Lee Pace, who is so dear. When I first saw him, I said he’s like a Gary Cooper. He’s bashful, he’s shy, he’s sensitive, he’s a great actor, he’s beautiful, he’s delicious.”

People Firsts Said Beautiful Actors Saws Six My Family Dear Bunch Fortunate Sensitive Shy Pace Delicious Great Actors Gary Bashful

Author:Ellen Greene

“People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.”

People Thinking Persons Stage Shy Outgoing

Author:Joel Madden

“I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.”

Thinking Way Acting Break Special Shy Belonging Shyness Break Out Being Special

Author:Michael C. Hall