Cringe Quotes - Page 3

• I always want my standup act to appeal to everybody in the room, and when I started standup, and I would see people talk about their kids and their wife, and I'd always cringe a little bit, like, 'I can't get a date, I don't know what you're talking about.'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Kids, Talking, People

  "Interview: Jim Gaffigan Talks Family, Food And Dad Is Fat". Interview with Samantha Abernethy, chicagoist.com. May 10, 2013.

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• The word "theatrical" makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

  Zola Jesus

  Believe, Singing, Opera

  Interview with Elliott Sharp, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2011.

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• The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pride, Men, Treats

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• It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.

  Michael Kiwanuka

  Annoyed, Bits, Hard

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Shadow, Sun, Turns

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• Being honest, if I had a daughter I wouldn't want her listening to a Nicki Minaj CD until she was a certain age. Even when I meet my fans and they tell me they are 12, I cringe a little. I always say, 'Listen. I don't want you saying the bad words, put school first.'

  Nicki Minaj

  Daughter, School, Cds

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• Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they can stand. They are afraid to find out how tough they are. Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich. Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her, she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Horse, Hands

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• When I look back now I wouldn't say that I cringe, but I start to realize how naive I was then. I feel much better suited for the job now. 
  (on being Manchester City manager)

  Stuart Pearce

  Jobs, Cities, Looks

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• The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

  Ida B. Wells

  Running, Home, Men

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'

  Tom Ford

  Want, Firsts, Designer

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• I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose-paid but good. It is now your turn to reap.

  Anne Lamott

  Stars, Energy, Noses

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• I guess I cringe, because sometimes I don't even watch my live performances back. When I edit, it's this feeling of seeing my mistakes. It's always a mixture of loving characters, but being the artist that created it and not trying to go too deep in criticizing myself.

  Kalup Linzy

  Mistake, Character, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list of attributes that he would be looking for in a woman. I would replace compatibility with dialectic.

  James Ellroy

  Males, Would Be, Lists

  Interview by Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 9, 2010.

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• Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving Up, Generosity, Understanding

  Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.286

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• Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Writing, Sometimes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I talked to some of Donald Trump supporters and they, say, yeah, sometimes he makes me cringe, but I still like him, and I still think he's the right thing for America.

  Don Gonyea

  Thinking, America, Sometimes

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• It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Years, Looks

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing poetry for a long time, since I was about eight, but I remember my first one that I put to chords. I was really trying to be like the psychedelic era Beatles, I was obsessed. All I could think about was Beatles and Hendrix. So I tried to write a psychedelic song, and it was the worst. I couldn't even... If I read it now - I still have the book somewhere - it makes me cringe out loud. It was just about psychedelic stuff.

  Ladyhawke

  Song, Book, Writing

  "Coup De Main x AllTracks | Ladyhawke". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2016.

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• When we put too much hope in a candidate or a party we set ourselves up for disappointment. When I see a poster with [Barak] Obama's image with the word "hope" under it, something in me cringes - our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness, the old hymn goes, all other ground is sinking sand.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Disappointment, Party

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• I can play a song for somebody, and when certain parts come on, I cringe. I might not like my vocal or the way I sang a certain word. Playing intimate shows is when I feel the most vulnerable; you can hear and see everything. Those are the most rewarding as well.

  T. Mills

  Song, Play, Might

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• In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

  Chris Carmack

  Wings, People, Television

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

  Jean Lorrain

  Blood, Ice, Everyday

  Jean Lorrain (2002). “Nightmares of an Ether-drinker”

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• People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Two, People, Flattery

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1701). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself”, p.211

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• Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Character, Mouths, Berlin

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.

  Kalup Linzy

  Anxiety, World, Emotion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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