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• How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them. Do they not see the harm resulting from excess in certain gymnastic exercises and sports not suitable for virtuous girls? What sins are committed or provoked by conversations which are too free, by immodest shows, by dangerous reading. How lax have consciences become, how pagan morals!

  Pope Pius XII

  Girl, Sports, Reading

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• The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

  Margaret Atwood

  Ignorant, Way, Shame

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• London was like that too. It was that time of year when all the rich kids with the oil money have their cars shipped over. Some of the most beautiful cars I've ever seen - with the worst paint jobs! It was just this hilarious, disgusting display of wealth. The shamelessness of it. To be that shameless about your money when you're a guest in a country was astounding to me. But I saw the humor in it.

  Bill Burr

  Beautiful, Country, Jobs

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Writing, Cradle

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

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• --nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

  Philip Roth

  Fate, Vanity, Fool

  Philip Roth (2004). “The Plot Against America: A Novel”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How many girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them.

  Pope Pius XII

  Girl, Sheep, Feelings

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• My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Sweet, Air

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• It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want. Especially in this age of blatant, shameless gerrymandering.

  Gene Weingarten

  Party, Together, Age

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Summer, Real, Night

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• Thanks [Donald] Trump for exposing evangelicals as 'shameless hypocrites'.

  Bill Maher

  Hypocrite, Thanks, Trump

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• I've had so much fun working on 'Shameless.'

  Robert Knepper

  Fun

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• In his writings, Patton was shameless about his ambition to woo Lena to be his bride. He detailed the gradual progress he made, playing music for her on his violin, writing her poems, beguiling her with stories, engaging her in conversation. It was clear that he obsessed over her. He knew what he wanted and never relented until she was his.

  Brandon Mull

  Writing, Ambition, Progress

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2009). “Grip of the Shadow Plague”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.

  Janina Gavankar

  Musical, Care, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.

  Bhartrhari

  Pride, Fire, Land

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• I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my home. I'm glad that I had the courage to go on record as opposing that illegitimate, shameless flea-bag that now shares my bed and board. You abstainer, you!

  Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

  Home, Giving, Lazy

  FRANK B. GILBRETH JR. (1948). “CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN”

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• Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Memorable, Thinking

  "The Television Program Transcripts: Part III". www.pbs.org.

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• I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my patent leather shoes and my new lunch box. I hope the teacher will like me :)

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Teacher, School, Night

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.44, A&C Black

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• If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.

  Aristophanes

  Cat, Men, Tails

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• I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had "crazy mothers." We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Crazy

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• I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

  Amy Bloom

  Perseverance, Team, Winning

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Where The God Of Love Hangs Out”, p.55, Granta Books

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• The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and even more intolerably to the pious, he manages to do so with shameless enjoyment.

  John Carroll

  Independent, Law, Moral

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.26, Taylor & Francis

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• The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

  James Wolcott

  Party, Reality, Tea

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• My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Self, Interesting, Diaries

  W.N.P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man: & A Last Diary”, p.363, Courier Dover Publications

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• I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide everywhere, but the leaders kept boasting about their great achievements and bright tomorrows. I saw all this and tried to show it in my pictures as simply and straightforwardly as I could. All I wanted to do was record how all these poor people adapted to lies and suffering, how they got used to it, how, in fact they were bound to miss it when it was over.

  Antonin Kratochvil

  Suicide, Country, Lying

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• We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Ignorant, May, Lost

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Everything and Nothing”, p.98, New Directions Publishing

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