Cringe Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

  Idris Elba

  Stripes, Actors, Want

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• I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway.

  Steve Martin

  Way, Psychological, Knows

  "Steve Martin and Claire Danes". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 19, 2005.

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• I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Giving, Embarrassed, Give Me

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• I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Stupid, Watches, Interviews

  "Michelle Pfeiffer - What She Did for Love". Interview with Liz Smith, www.goodhousekeeping.com. June 4, 2007.

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• I feel cheesy when I see Silver Spoons. Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe.

  Ricky Schroder

  Kids, Cheesy, Looks

  "HuffPost Exclusive: Ricky Schroder Q&A". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2010.

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• I like sex writing that makes me think, makes me cringe, makes me angry, makes me look at it in a new way.

  Rachel Kramer Bussel

  Sex, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something." "Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?" I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"... "Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar.

  Veronica Roth

  Liars, Heart, Cutting

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• He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Feminist, Way

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1027, Dell

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• He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe," Joanna Hoffman said. "It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and know how to manipulate people. Knowing that he can crush you makes you feel weakened and eager for his approval, so then he can elevate you and put you on a pedestal and own you.

  Walter Isaacson

  Crush, Knowing, People

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess-fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men he cannot handle them. Neither can he influence them in his favor if he dislikes or scorns them. He must neither cringe nor sneer. He must have both self-respect and respect for others.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Respect, Fear, Men

  "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life". Forbes magazine, 1950.

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• When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer's character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation - an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example.

  Bill Roorbach

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Bill Roorbach (2000). “Writing Life Stories”, p.97, Writer's Digest Books

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• Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

  John Mason Brown

  Friendship, Names, People

  John Mason Brown (1950). “Still seeing things”

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• When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out.

  Kingsley Amis

  Strong, Writing, Wine

  "Toast of the town" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2006.

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• You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.

  Jane Roberts

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Helping Others

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.538, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Looks, Remember, Sometimes

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• I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

  Barack Obama

  Grandmother, Men, White

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.

  Thomas Jane

  I Can

  Interview with Ken P., ca.ign.com. February 20, 2004.

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• I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.

  Jude Law

  Actors, Want, Interest

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

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