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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 had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic characters is a fundamental part of me too.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Character, Intelligent, Fundamentals

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

  Doris Lessing

  Accepting, Uncertain, Certainty

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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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• 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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• I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Thinking, Half

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• I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think?

  Andrew Sullivan

  Thinking, People, Pluralism

  "Of Modern Faith". "The Daily Dish", December 14, 2008.

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• Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Buddhism, People, Waiting

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• Gradually, by processing emotion and understanding the psychological action involved, you realize it isn't really complex. It may seem so at first, but that's because you still belong to your emotions and opinions--you think they're yours and that they're real. They aren't--they belong to the ego. The Infinite Self cannot be insecure.

  Stuart Wilde

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Stuart Wilde (1996). “Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power”, p.134, Hay House, Inc

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• Lovely girls are terribly insecure. They are convinced that their legs are too thick, and their bottoms are too big, and their bosoms are too small. They are conviced that their nose is the wrong shape, that their ears stick out, and that their eyes are too close together. They need a man who will tell them they are exactly right as they are. They do not believe him, but they need to hear it said.

  Richard J. Needham

  Love, Girl, Believe

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• The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

  Neil Diamond

  Keys, Shy, Kind

  "Neil Diamond Cuts Up". Interview with Richard Natale, articles.latimes.com. February 10, 2001.

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• I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty-I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.

  E. Lockhart

  Girl, Thinking, Fake

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.55, Hot Key Books

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• Old Testament, is really one of the most wickedest books you'll ever come across. God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby Knight and Suge Knight. He's got these anger issues that you can't believe. He's like John McCain if McCain could fart hail. He's pro-slavery, he's pro-polygamy, he's homophobic, he'll kill you for masturbating.

  Bill Maher

  Book, Believe, Issues

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceedin a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Ideas, Giving

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• How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.

  Athol Fugard

  Beach, Writing, Dark

  Athol Fugard (1983). “Notebooks, 1960-1977”

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• Middle school was what programmed me to be semi-insecure, like, all of the time. I didn’t fit in….I’d stand on the outside of the circle but I was never really in. That’s when I started to realize there’s this thing called rejection.

  Taylor Swift

  School, Circles, Rejection

  "Taylor Swift: Whole Lotta Love" by Lizzy Goodman, www.elle.com. February 11, 2013.

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• I'm still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of people. I assumed everyone hated me. Somehow that scowl has turned into an acting career.

  Norman Reedus

  Careers, People, Acting

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

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• I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Kids, Gone, Today

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• A lot of overdubs from the last couple of records had to do with me being insecure about the way my voice sounds or the way I play guitar. I would want to mask it with extra things, or keep every moment super exciting. With the newest record, I tried my best to back off, and if something wasn't interesting at every moment, or if my voice didn't sound that good, just let it go and accept it.

  Doug Martsch

  Couple, Interesting, Let It Go

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• Leinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers.

  Michael Jackson

  Beer, People, Crafts

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