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• When it came to hip-hop... I don't know. Maybe I was insecure. You know, this is the early '90s. If you were a white guy, and you were rapping, that wasn't as accepted yet. I was scared of the quiet Northeast suburbs, so I couldn't embrace my full rapper self.

  Charlie Day

  Rap, Self, White

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality.

  Valerie Solanas

  Couple, Moving, Kids

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.

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• We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Epidemics, People

  Joyce Meyer (2016). “Overload: How to Unplug, Unwind and Free Yourself from the Pressure of Stress”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

  Doris Lessing

  Accepting, Uncertain, Certainty

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• It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.

  Yoko Ono

  Long, Important, Honest

  "When Sam Taylor-Wood met Yoko Ono". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.

  Dennis Quaid

  Stars, People, Guy

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• Dating is so insecure. My last relationship, I was always there for her and she dumped me. I told her about it. I said, "Remember when your grandma died? I was there. Remember when you flunked out of school? I was there. Remember when you lost your job? I was there!" She said, "I know

  Tom Arnold

  Jobs, Grandma, School

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• I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.

  Randeep Hooda

  Hero, Roles, Actors

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• It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiesce.

  Criss Jami

  Humble, Order, Loyal

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.41, Criss Jami

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• Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Heart, Mean, Loss

  Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).

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• I'll just get better as I go along because I'm open to getting better. If you have the goods, there's nothing to be afraid of. If somebody doesn't have the goods, they're insecure. I don't have that problem

  Jennifer Lopez

  Confidence, Get Better, Problem

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• Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Age, Youth

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.84

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• There's that confidence again, that semi-infuriating easiness of his, the tilt of his head and the smile. but today it's not infuriating. Today I like it, feel like it's somehow rubbing off on me, like if I was around him enough I would never feel awkward or frightened or insecure.

  Lauren Oliver

  Awkward, Today, Tilt

  "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

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• They’re always like, 'That’s not what happened in the books, so the show’s really bad now.' But really, they just feel insecure because they’re used to knowing what’s coming next.

  Maisie Williams

  Book, Knowing, Next

  "Guess What, 'Game Of Thrones' Snobs? Arya Stark Is Sick Of Your Spoilers" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. July 30, 2014.

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• Im not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, Wow.

  Margarita Levieva

  Girl, Wow, Saws

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• I'm pretty pale. In high school I was insecure and thought it'd be cool to go to a tanning bed. Now I just let it look the way it looks.

  Taylor Swift

  School, Bed, Looks

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• The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest out male is the dragqueen, but he, although different from most men, is exactly like all other dragqueens; like the functionalist, he has an identity - a female; he tries to define all his troubles away - but still no individuality. Not completely convinced that he's a woman, highly insecure about being sufficiently female, he conforms compulsively to the man-made feminine stereotype, ending up as nothing but a bundle of stilted mannerisms.

  Valerie Solanas

  Men, Individuality, Desire

  Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”

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• In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

  Nikki Reed

  School, Adults, Worst Times

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• All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in their imaginary worlds, because that's where they're in charge - where they're God. Did you know that Hemingway's mother dressed him as a girl until he was six years old?" I was not offended by Claudia's glib psychological theory. Like many glib psychological theories, it struck me as fundamentally correct.

  Philip Sington

  Girl, Mother, Believe

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• What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things. It’s about showing that you’re willing to accept them for whatever they are, that they should not feel insecure or self-conscious in your presence, which can be a hard task to achieve.

  Esther Earl

  Self, Tasks, Vulnerable

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• Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Lists, Grows

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Sometimes you're a psychiatrist and sometimes you're a group therapist. The dynamics in between people and the misgivings sometimes that artists have when they get into the studio because they're under a different level of scrutiny. A lot of them can be insecure about it. My job is not simply to make musical determinations but sometimes to just keep people from flipping out during the process.

  Todd Rundgren

  Determination, Jobs, Artist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Humans

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening and more numerous Slavs-the more insecure and dangerous nationalism becomes.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Southern, World, Threatening

  Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.52, Picador

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• I don't like girls who wear lots of make-up and you can't see their face. Some girls are beautiful but insecure and look much better without the make-up, but decide to put loads on. I like girls with nice eyes and a nice smile.

  Justin Bieber

  Beautiful, Girl, Nice

  "Justin Bieber: "Girls Look Better Without Make-Up"". MTV Interview, April 2010.

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