Humiliating Quotes - Page 7

• A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

  Amelia Barr

  May, Poverty, Painful

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.246, Library of Alexandria

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• If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

  Adam Savage

  Dignity, Mythbusters, Has Beens

  "MythBusters". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.

  Mike Tyson

  Risk, Embarrassing, Occasions

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• It's naturally kind of humiliating and strange to have a microphone; when you're young you just make movies, you don't worry about all the peripheral stuff that comes with it.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Worry, Stuff, Strange

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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• I know sometimes tragic or humiliating events propel you into a better life, I've experienced that for sure, but it still hurts. It still burns. I think sometimes it hurts more because you can't wish it had never happened. It improved your life in the long run.

  Autumn de Wilde

  Running, Hurt, Thinking

  Autumn de Wilde (2007). “Elliott Smith”, p.61, Chronicle Books

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• It's humiliating to have to explain your value.

  Christine Vachon

  Values

  "Producer Roundtable: 6 Filmmakers on 'Compton' Threats, Tarantino Outbursts and the Truth Behind a 'Star Wars' 'Firing'". Interview with Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2015.

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• Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Revenge, Gains

  Q Magazine Interview, April 1, 2003.

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• Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of America is 232 years old and we're having to go to mom for money.

  Argus Hamilton

  Mom, Brother, Jobs

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• It would've cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid all the bills. Celtic means the same to me as it does to other fans. I identify with the club and wish to be proud of it.

  Fergus McCann

  Soccer, Football, Mean

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• The Sexual Revolution offered us women this deal: you can particiapate in higher education and the labor market, as long as you agree to chemically neuter yourselves during your twenties, and endure expensive, humiliating, and possibly dangerous infertility treatment during your thirties and forties.

  Jennifer Morse

  Long, Twenties, Revolution

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• It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.

  Jessica Lange

  Military, Iraq, United States

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• Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Government, Space

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

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• Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Knows

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• Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil.

  Toni Morrison

  Names, Devil, Littles

  "'I Regret Everything': Toni Morrison Looks Back On Her Personal Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 20, 2015.

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• I will watch a ton of movies while I'm writing for inspiration. "Postcards from the Edge" was one. I love the mother-daughter relationship and all the hard humiliating stuff she has to go through. Or thinks she has to go through.

  Zoe Cassavetes

  Mother Daughter, Inspiration, Writing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and it was nothing I had planned to do. It was just one of those beautiful moments, the alchemy of acting that is so mysterious, where you sort of go, "How did that come out of me?"

  Sarah Paulson

  Beautiful, Upset, Acting

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.

  Sarah Silverman

  "Sarah Silverman: Playing The Dummy For Laughs". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 31, 2010.

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• All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

  Ilka Chase

  Heartbreaking, Youth, Realizing

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in the empire. A motive of superstition prevented the execution of the design which Julian had frequently meditated, of relieving his head from the weight of a costly diadem; but he absolutely refused the title of Dominus or Lord, a word which was grown so familiar to the ears of the Romans, that they no longer remembered its servile and humiliating origin.

  Edward Gibbon

  Years, History, Design

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.648, Modern Library

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• I think the fear of humiliating yourself on stage always motivates me to give at least 90 percent. I've definitely been guilty of leaning on the mic stand, but you can only do that so long before you're like, "Jesus, I'm bombing." The fact that people pay to come see me, that's really just out the window.

  Bill Burr

  Jesus, Thinking, Giving

  Interview with Matt Wild, www.avclub.com. June 15, 2011.

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• If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Effort, Atheism, Would Be

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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• What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?

  Walter Kirn

  Cold, Bones, Chickens

  Walter Kirn (1993). “She Needed Me”

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• Early on, girls begin to menstruate, which is dramatic but not obvious to their playmates. They grow taller and rounder, but underneath their makeup they are still recognizably themselves. For boys it is far more disorienting. Puberty comes later, sometimes much later, and its delay is humiliating. While the tall round girls are getting themselves up like grown women, the prepubertal boys, with their featureless, hairless bodies, are just dirty little kids who could pass for the children of the hypermature girls.

  Frank Pittman

  Girl, Children, Dirty

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• I just think it should be illegal to call someone fat on TV... Because why is humiliating people funny?

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking, People, Tvs

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• Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

  Nicole Kidman

  Ideas, Actors, Way

  Interview with Lee Daniels, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 29, 2015.

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