Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 18

• When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only about what is there, the audience is drawn into the poet's world. Their imagination is stimulated, and a silent connection is established. I believe this is where the most important aspect of the Japanese sense of beauty lies.

  Naoto Fukasawa

  Lying, Believe, Writing

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• I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done; I'm just very uncomfortable with myself.

  Olivia Wilde

  Hate, Eyebrows, Looks

  "Olivia Wilde: Jason Sudekis Loves My Hair When It's". Interview with Carly Cardellino, www.cosmopolitan.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I love fast cars, loud guns and classic rock 'n' roll, but I'd never do any of it in
  flats. I love me a nice, big uncomfortable pair of heels and some big hair! Maybe
  it's a Southern thing, but I love dressing up. It's everything I can do not to leave
  the house in a goddamn prom dress every day.

  Amber Heard

  Nice, Gun, Hair

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• People feel like they know you when you're in their living room, weekly, for five years. But I always get uncomfortable when people know more about me than I know about them.

  Nina Dobrev

  Years, People, Rooms

  "Nylon loves Nina!". nylon.com. July 17, 2014.

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• Revealing yourself, physically or emotionally, to cast and crew is frequently uncomfortable. But it is essential if you want to to tell the truth. I felt more at ease being bold with some than I did with others. I was incredibly fortunate to have worked with Randy Harrison as Justin Taylor. We share enough taste in music and art to have had a real camaraderie, and luckily that evolved into a deep friendship.

  Gale Harold

  Movie, Art, Truth

  "Queer as Folk ‘s Gale Harold". Interview with lana Rapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2014.

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• I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself.
  Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.

  Max Irons

  Awkward, Video, Looks

  "Max Irons, Model/Actor, Thinks New York Is More Fashionable Than London" By Sarah Leon, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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• What I've realized is that when I walk into a club, I don't feel good, I feel uncomfortable. I wonder what to do, I look for my drink... it's not necessarily an enjoyable experience, so why would I put myself through that?

  Shiloh Fernandez

  Feel Good, Looks, Clubs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

  Walton Goggins

  Laughing, People, Lines

  "Walton Goggins Talks JUSTIFIED Season 3, Working with Daniel Day-Lewis on LINCOLN, G.I. JOE: RETALIATION and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 25, 2012.

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• But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements, yet not so simple. If they aren't met, they can be as devastating as physical hunger, as uncomfortable as a lack of shelter, as incapacitating as thirst. The frustration, isolation and anxiety brought about by unmet emotional needs can, like physical privation, produce death or a degree of living death - neurosis and psychosis.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Men, Emotional, Frustration

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

  Murong Xuecun

  Criminals, Calling, Difficult

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• I have a taste for the macabre. I really am not drawn to imagery that is pretty, things that are just pretty. I’m drawn to things that challenge you, that make you nervous, that make you uncomfortable.

  Pieter Hugo

  Challenges, Nervous, Imagery

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• In a world threatened by a famine of righteousness and spiritual starvation, we have been commanded to sustain the prophet. As we give heed to, uphold, and affirm prophetic word, we witness that we have the faith to humbly submit to the will, the wisdom, and the timing of the Lord. We heed prophetic word even when it may seem unreasonable, inconvenient, and uncomfortable. According to the world’s standards, following the prophet may be unpopular, politically incorrect, or socially unacceptable. But following the prophet is always right.

  Carol F. McConkie

  Spiritual, Giving, World

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• That’s how we often react when grace comes at us. It’s awkward. God offers us something that’s too good to be true—unearned, unmerited, total forgiveness—and we stand there, stiff and uncomfortable, waiting for the embrace to stop so we can get back to the business of earning our way into heaven. We need to embrace grace. We need to learn how to hug back.

  Judah Smith

  Waiting, Heaven, Grace

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.

  James Young

  Change, Trying, Suits

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• I have this little neighbor next door. He comes over and tells me about playing Call of Duty, and he's talking about, 'Aw yeah, I slit this guy in the throat and then I stuck a grenade up this guy's ass.' He's describing it in all this detail, and that makes me uncomfortable. I don't think that's good for him.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Thinking, Playing Games, Doors

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• It doesn't make much sense and it's nil premium. They're going to have co-CEOs...which is a very uncomfortable structure.

  Martin Sorrell

  Marketing, Structure, Premium

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• The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.

  Robert K. Merton

  Running, Risk, Mind

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• The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In each case, history entails the uncomfortable presence of earlier unresolved roles.

  Charles S. Maier

  Ukraine, Legacy, Roles

  Charles S. Maier (1998). “The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a new preface”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• I don't think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented itself. It makes me a bit uncomfortable, but at least she never sold the story before trial to the tabloids.

  Catherine Crier

  Opportunity, Thinking, Amber

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• I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Writing, Successful, Intelligent

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• Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too "cool" or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

  Barry Zito

  Sports, Thinking, Advice

  "Barry Zito Visits Athletics Nation". Interview with Papi Blez, www.athleticsnation.com. Mar 29, 2005.

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• I'm very uncomfortable in my own skin.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Skins, My Own

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• I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.

  Amanda Palmer

  Teenager, Thinking, Rocks

  "Amanda Palmer: 'Thank God my best friend's a therapist'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• A lot of people worry much too much about what their children are reading... If a child picks up a book and reads something she has a question about, if she can go to her parents, great. Or else they will read right over it. It won't mean a thing. They are very good, I think, at monitoring what makes them feel uncomfortable. If something makes them feel uncomfortable they will put it down.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Book, Reading

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• I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.

  Thomas Harris

  Rays, Drs, Found

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.11, Penguin

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