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• I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall.

  Elle Macpherson

  People, Used, Shows

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• I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

  Chavela Vargas

  Men, Bed, Way

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• I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.

  Walther Funk

  Taken, Fate, Dark

  "The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Random House, p. 85 (To Leon Goldensohn, April 14, 1946), 2010.

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• I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.

  Alice Bag

  Want, Proud, Ends

  "The Rumpus Interview With Alice Bag" by Niina Pollari, therumpus.net. May 25, 2012.

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• So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.

  George Monbiot

  Odds, Identity, World

  "Sick of this market-driven world? You should be" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.

  Pope Francis

  Touching, Suffering, Trying

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• I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Growing Up, Real

  John Taylor Gatto (2000). “A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling”

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• I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

  Charles Bukowski

  Race, Add, Want

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.48, City Lights Books

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• So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

  Izaak Walton

  Ignorance, Long, Ignorant

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• There's nothing to be ashamed of here. Everyone's been with Carlito's sister!

  Triple H

  Wwe

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• The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

  Albert Ellis

  Hate, Self, Taught

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• Around 2010 - I took a long look at everybody I had around me because I wanted to make sure they were aligned with how I felt. I'm not ashamed of who I am or where I came from or the size God gave me. There was a large percentage of people who weren't [on the same page]. So I really shook up my team.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Team, Long, People

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• I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Mother, Father, Glad

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• Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed.

  David K. Shipler

  Struggle, Fall, America

  David K. Shipler (2008). “The Working Poor: Invisible in America”, p.300, Vintage

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• The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Hatred, Black History

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• I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

  Christina Ricci

  Character, Thinking

  "Christina Ricci Interview SPEED RACER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 3, 2008.

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• I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Two, Like You, Younger Sister

  "Khloe Kardashian On How She Plans To Spend Valentine’s Day With Lamar Odom". Interview with Sarah St. Lifer, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed - all there is cold, cold as ice.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Heart, Emotional, Ice

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1866). “The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791)”, p.252

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• A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.

  Confucius

  Gentleman, Deeds, Outrun

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.

  George Blake

  Country, Fighting, Kgb

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• To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.

  Eve Ensler

  Dream, Pain, Women

  Eve Ensler (1998). “The Vagina Monologues”, Villard Books

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• Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.

  Gautama Buddha

  Character, Men, Views

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• I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.

  Henry James

  Memorable, Simple, Eggs

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.11484, Delphi Classics

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• The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Powerful, Law

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.137, Ignatius Press

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• Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Home, Night

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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