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• People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Self, People

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• It's not talked about, but you know how girls, as you get older, your boobs sag? Well, as men get older, their balls hang lower. It's called SBH: Senior Ball Hang. I think that's God's way of making sure guys get to feel insecure too.

  Cameron Diaz

  Girl, Senior, Men

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• It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

  Eve Ensler

  Guarantees That, Quests, Undoing

  Eve Ensler (2006). “Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World”, p.195, Villard

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• Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.

  Ben Affleck

  Real, Moving, Directors

  "This Is What 40 Looks Like" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 9, 2012.

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• Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything.

  Eminem

  Personality, Understanding, Body

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• There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.

  Nelson Mandela

  Democracy, Demand, Slavery

  Nelson Mandela, United Nations Centre Against Apartheid (1982). “I have done my duty to my people and to South Africa: statement from the dock, 7 November 1962”

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• Nearly 40% of all food in this country is wasted, and there are over 49 million food-insecure people in the United States. Clearly we have an enormous opportunity if we can find a way to retrieve the imperfect food and to feed the hungry.

  Dana Cowin

  Country, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I have faith that God will care for me, and God does provide my needs. I don't in any way feel insecure because I don't know where I will sleep at night, where or when I will eat next. When you have spiritual security, you have no more feeling of need for material security.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Sleep, Night

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.127, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• So anything that's not absolutely needed, we would cut it [footage] out, which would make me very insecure; everything has to work, and it's a water movie in 3D with a kid, animals. So the more I do that, the more I'm scared of "What if it doesn't go the way we want it?" But we had to do that to meet the budget, otherwise we wouldn't even have a start-date.

  Ang Lee

  Kids, Cutting, Animal

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing landscapes I felt insecure about painting in this style, and the dreams were like positive omens for me, and I've done a few paintings that were exact replicas of images that came to me in dreams.

  April Gornik

  Dream, Years, Play

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• Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.

  Jay Bell

  Powerful, Kids, Unions

  Jay Bell (2012). “Something Like Winter (m/m romance)”, p.47, Jay Bell

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• The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there is no security.....When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same....The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love Is, Men, Beauty And Love

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• When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, People, Feelings

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• If I'm a secure person, my online persona is going to be pretty similar to the person that I am. If I'm insecure, my online persona is probably very different from who I am in real life.

  Kim Stolz

  Real, Who I Am, Different

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I think real humans are so complicated, and often [characters] are written more one-dimensional without maybe even the writer knowing it. I've felt numerous moments in my life where my most confident moment and my most insecure moment were exactly the same time. There's nothing funny or interesting about perfection.

  Kristen Bell

  Real, Character, Thinking

  "Kristen Bell Talks Veronica Mars, the Show's Journey From the Small Screen to Theaters, Returning to the Character, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 13, 2014.

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• A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of life with all of its defining prejudices. It thereby provides an appropriate and legitimate outlet for one's anger. The authority of an inerrant Bible that can be readily quoted to buttress this point of view becomes an essential ingredient to such a life. When that Bible is challenged, or relativized, the resulting anger proves the point categorically.

  John Shelby Spong

  Fundamentalist Religion, Views, People

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks this Meaning of Script”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They want security. They even prefer war to the insecure expectation of a war with its threat of enemy surprise. This vague fearful expectation acts on their fantasies. They anticipate all kinds of mysterious dangers; they begin to provoke them. It is the evocation of fear and danger in order to escape the tension of insecurity.

  Joost Meerloo

  Hate, War, Order

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• I think it's a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Thinking, Comforting, Actors

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• There are sexual things that I do that aren’t for a man. I feel empowered sometimes by being sexy and being comfortable enough to be sexy on camera — a lot of woman [sic] struggle with that. But, there are some days that I don’t want anyone to see me. I’m just a regular girl. Some days, I’m super-strong; some days, I’m super-insecure. But, I don’t really identify with any particular label. I just speak my truth, and if people like it, they like it, and if they bash it, they bash it.

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Sexy, Strong

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• I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

  Maud Adams

  Thinking, Validation, People

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• Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.

  Sue Grafton

  People, Special, Opinion

  Sue Grafton (2012). “Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels”, p.206, Pan Macmillan

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• I was never really interested in studies and was hot-headed and rebellious in college, as I was totally confused and insecure but was not coming to terms with it.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Confused, College, Hot Headed

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• As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.

  Kelli Berglund

  Girl, Teenage, Who I Am

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• How many of those who are insecure seek power over others as a compensation for inadequacy and wind up bringing consequences down upon their heads and those around them? How many hide out in their lives, resist the summons to show up, or live fugitive lives, jealous, projecting onto others, and then wonder why nothing ever really feels quite right. How many proffer compliance with the other, buying peace at the price of soul, and wind up with neither?

  James Hollis

  Jealous, Wind, Soul

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• We're all human so of course there are days when I'm feeling insecure. When that happens, I take time to reflect on how far I've come and how far I will continue to go - it helps me feel empowered and self-assured.

  Demi Lovato

  Self, Feelings, Helping

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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