Ashamed Quotes - Page 8

• A lot of my own problems are because I'm so financially irresponsible. I'm so stupid when it comes to money. And I'm ashamed of it.

  Eef Barzelay

  Stupid, Problem

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I see myself as a human being. You're right, I am an American, I do live in Utah, and I am deeply ashamed about the decisions our President is making around the world, in our name: the war in Iraq, his continued denial about global warming, the wholesale degradation of the environment on every level. Since September 11, 2001, I have come to believe that there are many forms of terrorism, and environmental degradation is one of them. We have to transcend our government and relate to each other as human beings first and Americans second and feel both our local and global responsibilities.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  War, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: progressive.org

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• "Immigrant" has become a dirty word. It is not a bad word. It's not a curse or a swear word. It's not a dirty word and it's nothing to be ashamed about. I am proud to be a second generation immigrant. I am proud of my heritage. We are all immigrants and we need to start owning the concept.

  Nadine Shah

  Dirty, Proud, Curse

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I feel very strongly about letting people know I'm proud of who I am. I want people to know when they hear my songs it's coming from a specific place. The new record is specifically for us trans women: that we can sing about our pain, being ostracized by our lovers, who are ashamed of us in a way. There's no pop music like that for our community. I wanted to contribute in that way.

  Nomi Ruiz

  Song, Pain, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just feel like the country is guilty. I think we should be deeply ashamed for what we've done in Iraq, and we've gotta reconcile that, and we've gotta find some way to make peace with this, and we can't do that until we acknowledge what took place, and ultimately, I think that's the poison that is killing this administration. And I think there's a lot of people in the country who are guilty of allowing themselves to be duped in a very sloppy, sloppy manner.

  Aaron McGruder

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am convinced most Americans - yes even white Americans - are committed to justice and equality for all people. I am convinced that most Americans are disgusted and even ashamed that Nazism is alive and well in this country that fought to defeat its evil ideology.

  Erwin McManus

  Country, People, Evil

  "There Is No Neutral Ground Here,’ Erwin McManus Says to The Church". Interview with Alex Murashko, togetherla.net. August 14, 2017.

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• When you go into mama-bear mode and have no choice but to just go with the flow, that's kind of when I realized...it put life into perspective. Just seeing my little girls and knowing I was going to experience life all over again - I'd be able to take them to the same things that my mom did - it was beautiful. When you become a mom, you gain this vulnerability that is so beautiful. Just the fact that I'm vulnerable but I'm never ashamed is so cool.

  Ayesha Curry

  Beautiful, Girl, Mom

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke. An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

  Melissa Leo

  Struggle, School, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think a lot of acting is about the removal of self-consciousness. The actor is going to be in front of a lot of people, and will naturally feel self-conscious. So a lot of the preparation for that is the removal of that idea. Like you embody or are connected to this character, therefore you can present this character in a way that eventually, when you come back to see it, you feel not exactly ashamed of.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• It's true the Holy Spirit alone can reproduce the character of our Lord Jesus, and we must always abide in Christ. But the Bible also makes us active partners in the process, and we must be diligent to do our part. "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed".

  David Jeremiah

  Jesus, Character, Spirit

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Me and my sisters were taught that if our eyes worked and our legs worked, we were beautiful. We had so many kids in our family that if we all got in front of the mirror and were ashamed of browns and golds and yellows and whites, and we believed what society told us - that the darker people were less attractive and the lighter ones were prettier - we would have had sibling murders. My family, being half-rural and half-military, just came from a different place.

  Pam Grier

  Beautiful, Sibling, Kids

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• My parents are both lawyers, and my father always said his best cases have been returns, cases that come into his office from another lawyer. So he said, "Never be ashamed to take a return." All my best roles have happened because someone else dropped out at the last minute, and God bless those actresses for their queeny fits, their sprained ankles, their better job turning up, because that's how I've got my best work.

  Olivia Williams

  Father, Office, Parent

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.

  Wilhelm II

  Firsts, Shame, First Time

  Remark in November 1938 in regard to Adolf Hitler's Kristallnacht. "Our German Cousins: Anglo-German Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries" by John Mander, p. 219, 1974.

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• I wouldn't be ashamed to sell my own art for a lot of money.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Art, My Own, Lots Of Money

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• The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

  Horatio Nelson

  Mean, People, Would Be

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.88, Cambridge University Press

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• Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.

  Robert Hass

  Writing, Would Be, Sometimes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm ashamed of what has happened to Canada. And I'm not leaving a $1.5 trillion deficit to my kids. No chance in hell is that happening.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Kids, Leaving, Canada

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If you have HIV, I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of. Get treatment and don't think that you're out of options or resources because you're not.

  Jay Ellis

  Thinking, Hiv, Resources

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of teaching people being ashamed of their sexuality.

  Hozier

  Teaching, People, Church

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Middlemarch, Eliot, Felt

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I remained basically anonymous for almost 17 years. I, in those 17 years, I tried to commit suicide a couple of times. I was very ashamed of what I had done, and I was looking for forgiveness not only from God but from myself.

  Norma McCorvey

  Suicide, Couple, Years

  Source: www.epm.org

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• There was sort of a negative association with the military. Maybe growing up in the South or being in a family with members of the military, I didn't have that negative connotation, but I did have this 'separate' connotation. I was ashamed to realize I had it and did not realize I had it until I was [in Iraq]. I was so impressed by the people I met over there and there was just a sense of connection and gratitude towards those people.

  Stephen Colbert

  Gratitude, Growing Up, Military

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Children, Survival, Adults

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.211, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre and some of them are bad. If they're really bad and I'd be ashamed of them, I throw them out, but if they're mediocre and they'll serve the purpose for which they're designed, that is, a mixing bowl or a soup bowl or a plate or whatever, I sell them. And this income from the sale of these pots permits me to go on and make other pots. It's even more important now that I've quit teaching, because I do not have a teacher's salary to fall back on.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Teacher, Fall, Teaching

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I'll tell you one thing, when you have young men and women in combat operations and they lose their friends, one thing you quickly learn not to be ashamed of is tears.

  Rick Hillier

  Men, Tears, Operations

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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