Insecure Quotes - Page 13

• I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent.

  Beth Orton

  Brother, Trying, Female

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

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• Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.

  Mike Leigh

  Acting, Needs, Actors

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• I have faith that God will care for me, and God does provide my needs. I don't in any way feel insecure because I don't know where I will sleep at night, where or when I will eat next. When you have spiritual security, you have no more feeling of need for material security.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Sleep, Night

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.127, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.

  Nelson Mandela

  Democracy, Demand, Slavery

  Nelson Mandela, United Nations Centre Against Apartheid (1982). “I have done my duty to my people and to South Africa: statement from the dock, 7 November 1962”

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• It's not talked about, but you know how girls, as you get older, your boobs sag? Well, as men get older, their balls hang lower. It's called SBH: Senior Ball Hang. I think that's God's way of making sure guys get to feel insecure too.

  Cameron Diaz

  Girl, Senior, Men

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• I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, Actors, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of music are the same--tormented and intolerant. Yet some arts not only make the artist social but make him depend upon sociability in order to succeed. Painting is one.

  Paul Theroux

  Art, Order, Friendly

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was never really interested in studies and was hot-headed and rebellious in college, as I was totally confused and insecure but was not coming to terms with it.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Confused, College, Hot Headed

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• The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They want security. They even prefer war to the insecure expectation of a war with its threat of enemy surprise. This vague fearful expectation acts on their fantasies. They anticipate all kinds of mysterious dangers; they begin to provoke them. It is the evocation of fear and danger in order to escape the tension of insecurity.

  Joost Meerloo

  Hate, War, Order

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• A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of life with all of its defining prejudices. It thereby provides an appropriate and legitimate outlet for one's anger. The authority of an inerrant Bible that can be readily quoted to buttress this point of view becomes an essential ingredient to such a life. When that Bible is challenged, or relativized, the resulting anger proves the point categorically.

  John Shelby Spong

  Fundamentalist Religion, Views, People

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks this Meaning of Script”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I think real humans are so complicated, and often [characters] are written more one-dimensional without maybe even the writer knowing it. I've felt numerous moments in my life where my most confident moment and my most insecure moment were exactly the same time. There's nothing funny or interesting about perfection.

  Kristen Bell

  Real, Character, Thinking

  "Kristen Bell Talks Veronica Mars, the Show's Journey From the Small Screen to Theaters, Returning to the Character, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 13, 2014.

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• If I'm a secure person, my online persona is going to be pretty similar to the person that I am. If I'm insecure, my online persona is probably very different from who I am in real life.

  Kim Stolz

  Real, Who I Am, Different

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, People, Feelings

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• As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.

  Kelli Berglund

  Girl, Teenage, Who I Am

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• I did bully somebody. I was insecure.

  Matt Lauria

  Bully

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• I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.

  Lily Cole

  Thinking, Supermodel, Models

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

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• I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side. I've felt ugly and insecure.

  Irina Shayk

  Men, Thinking, Ugly

  "Cristiano Ronaldo's former girlfriend Irina Shayk admits to feeling "ugly" next to Real Madrid star" by Gerard Couzins, www.mirror.co.uk. March 8, 2015.

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• For instance, people who have to walk miles for water - and we just turn on the faucet and let it run. Or people right here in our country [USA] who are food insecure, and yet we as a nation throw out an inconceivable amount of food.

  Joy Bryant

  Running, Country, Usa

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• The first thing I thought [when I read the script] was that Frasier was an intellectual at some points but also an Everyman - flawed and very insecure.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Intellectual, Scripts, Firsts

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• No matter what we say, entertainers are usually quite insecure, wobbly characters underneath, and maybe that bit of glory or that bit of expression or whatever it is compensates in some area.

  Robert Plant

  Character, Expression, Matter

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

  Ilka Chase

  Agency, Today, Peculiar

  Ilka Chase (1942). “Past Imperfect”

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• Democracy is an insecure landscape.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Democracy, Landscape

  Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “The Open Space of Democracy”, p.24, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.

  Helene Deutsch

  Soul, Insecurity, Facts

  Helene Deutsch (1944). “The psychology of women”

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• The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there is no security.....When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same....The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love Is, Men, Beauty And Love

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• Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.

  Sue Grafton

  People, Special, Opinion

  Sue Grafton (2012). “Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels”, p.206, Pan Macmillan

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