Ashamed Quotes - Page 37

• Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

  Susana Martinez

  Dream, American Dream

  "Susana Martinez RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I'm not ashamed to say that I really loved some of the hair metal bands of the '80s.

  Chris McCaughan

  Hair Metal, Band, Metals

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My imprint is there for the world to see. I don't try to hide it with my hair or a high collar. When I got ready for school this morning, I kept thinking of Sean. How proud he appears. Unapologetic. And I want to be like that. I don't want to look cowed or ashamed. I may not want to be this, but I don't want to be that girl, either. I don't want to be afraid.

  Sophie Jordan

  Girl, Morning, School

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• Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.

  Paula Creamer

  Mean, Care, Want

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• One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.

  Eric Schlosser

  Grief, Reality, Murder Victims

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• I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

  Cindy Sheehan

  Socialist

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• You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.

  Robert Thurman

  Suffering, Should

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Apr 06, 2017

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• Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

  Tom Rachman

  Book, Reading, Meditation

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• I am ashamed of my nation.

  Djemal Pasha

  Genocide, Armenian Genocide, Nations

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• "I take my leave of you, Mr. Creakle, and all of you," said Mr. Mell, glancing round the room, and again patting me gently on the shoulders. "James Steerforth, the best wish I can leave you is that you may come to be ashamed of what you have done today. At present I would prefer to see you anything rather than a friend, to me, or to anyone in whom I feel an interest."

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Best Wishes, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (2015). “David Copperfield: Classic English Literature”, p.96, 谷月社

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• I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

  Bedrich Smetana

  Mother, Mean, Able

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• I love the traditional music of all our islands - Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales , but I suppose I'm viewed pretty much as an English songwriter and I'm going to try and do an English album, and I wouldn't be ashamed or embarrassed to do Scarborough Fair and Spencer the Rover and stuff like that.

  Ralph McTell

  Islands, Scotland, Trying

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• I have since talked to some of my girlfriends sexual assault and found out that they had their own experiences that they never shared at the time. It was never talked about it. And I think it's because of that normal response - you feel badly, you feel responsible, you feel guilty, you feel like you did something wrong, you feel ashamed.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Normal

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  People, Poverty, Wealth

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• Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, People, Should

  "Deepak Chopra may be wealthy, but even he knows that's all an illusion" by Sue Blackmore, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I am not ashamed of the Gospel.

  Mark Driscoll

  Twitter post from Mar 12, 2013

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• Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.

  Frederick Douglass

  Brother, Slave, Should

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner (1975). “The life and writings of Frederick Douglass”

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• To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Causes, Misery

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• I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care.

  John McCain

  Pork, Subsidies, Care

  "McCain picks up Thompson endorsement". www.cnn.com. August 18, 1999.

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• The more people come out, the less it will be an issue. Of we are ashamed of ourselves, how the hell can we expect the rest of the world not to be ashamed of us?

  Martina Navratilova

  Issues, People, World

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• I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

  Don DeLillo

  Next

  Don DeLillo (2004). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.

  Anthony Hopkins

  War, Mean, Israel

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• There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Pieces, Cry, History Of Music

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I started writing a novel from the monster's point of view. It has its own difficulties but, I'm ashamed to say, it's much easier writing from a psychopath's point of view than from that of their empathetic opposite.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Writing, Views, Opposites

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Bad Writing, Language

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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