Shy Quotes - Page 38

• I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Girl, Oxford, People

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• I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.

  Mos Def

  Crazy, People, Rude

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• I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Men, Immature

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• I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!

  Jennifer Hudson

  Eye, Singing

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• Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

  Michael Jackson

  Father, Dark, Mirrors

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• No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Ideas, Directors, Want

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• There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

  Christian Louboutin

  Sexy, Witty, Men

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• A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

  Christian Louboutin

  Sexy, Witty, Shoes

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• 'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is; whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.

  Angie Stone

  Dream, Song, Positive Inspirational

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• I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Want, Shame, Used

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Home, Names

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• I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Fun, Mysterious, Adventurous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.

  Emile Hirsch

  Thinking, Shells, Half

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

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• Whether you're gay, straight, black, white, we all deserve the same rights. If there's anything I can do to champion the cause and further it, I will, shy of getting arrested.

  Nick Symmonds

  Gay, Rights, White

  "Nick Symmonds blasts Russia on gay rights at Moscow track championship" By Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. August 16, 2013.

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• The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

  John Lanchester

  Personality, Type, Standards

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• Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

  Donna Summer

  Reality, Men

  "Donna Summer Revealed Her #1 Sex Fantasy & U Won’t Believe What She Said!". Penthouse Interview, www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com. September 13, 2015.

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• The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose.

  Russell Wilson

  Issues, Domestic Violence, Loses

  "Let’s Talk About It". www.theplayerstribune.com. October 2, 2014.

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• Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

  Omar Suleiman

  True Friend, Offending, Risk

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jan 28, 2013

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• Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Real, Thorough Knowledge, Looks

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings”, p.309, Shambhala Publications

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• I think I do become someone else. In real life, I’m very shy, but people think I’m this angry, sexy kind of... god knows what they think! And there I am in front of them, nervous and blushing and stuttering and whatnot. So I’m definitely not the person you see in pictures. I mean, in pictures, you look like something you’re not.

  Lara Stone

  Sexy, Real, Mean

  Interview with Marc Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2010.

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• I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

  Taylor Swift

  Records, May, Facts

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• Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Fear, Heart, Doors

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• Finally I want to say this: If you are a kid and you are out there and you are chubby and not so cute and nerdy and shy and invisible and in pain, whatever your race, whatever your gender, whatever your sexual orientation, I’m standing here to tell you: You are not alone. Your tribe of people, they are out there in the world. Waiting for you.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Cute, Pain, Kids

  Shonda Rhimes (2015). “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Growing Up, Ambition, Kids

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• A Man who is Shy and Modest, is An Amazing Character, but a Women who is Shy and Modest is Beyond Amazing.

  Abu Bakr

  Islamic, Character, Men

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