Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 13

• That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Pain, Self

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.162, Random House

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.

  Lena Horne

  Gratitude, Way, Bitterness

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• Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

  M.I.A.

  Order, Bullshit, Silence

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• I'm not there to be the token sexy girl.  I don't know that I would ever be able to pull that off.  It's nice that those characters I've played feel uncomfortable as well because it's so much more realistic.

  Emma Stone

  Girl, Sexy, Nice

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• I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?

  Alan Alda

  Atheist, Book, Simple

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• Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Desire, Needs, Levels

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• It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.

  Halle Berry

  Reality, Matter, Faces

  "Diabetes didn't get us down" by Suchitra Bajpai Chaudhary, gulfnews.com. November 18, 2012.

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• I don't like anything that's too confining. I'm sort of a control freak, so anything that makes me feel like I'm out of control is a bit uncomfortable. But you know how it is, sometimes it's good to live a little!

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Littles, Freak, Sometimes

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• I'm talking to a journalist and I really have nothing to say anymore, this is already uncomfortable. I feel the pain coming already. The brutal pain, when one day I should read your edit of whatever I say, because no matter what I say, no matter how I say it, no matter its tone, its frequency range, its decibel level or the way in which I put the words together, no matter my intentions and no matter the truth. What I'll read one day will be a chastised, manipulated abortion of your misunderstandings, your manipulations, your agenda and your amateur use of the English language.

  Vincent Gallo

  Pain, Talking, Abortion

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• I was very uncomfortable with all the attention when it first started happening to me. I retreated quite a bit from the world, both physically and emotionally. But then you just accept that you can't control what the rest of the world thinks or does.

  Dennis Quaid

  Thinking, Doe, Attention

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• I'm very uncomfortable with my body, and I'm not interested in people seeing it on screen.

  Alicia Silverstone

  People, Body, Not Interested

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• I've always sort of admired and respected one's ability to be comfortable with other people's discomfort or, you know, their being comfortable making other people uncomfortable.

  Timothy Olyphant

  People, Ability, Discomfort

  "Timothy Olyphant: 'Justified' In Laying Down The Law". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 28, 2011.

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• I cant stand those food cult people who bring their own food into the house. All those little thermoses and paper bags-it makes the other guests uncomfortable.

  Paul Lynde

  People, House, Bags

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• I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.

  Melissa Joan Hart

  People, Friendly, Done

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• Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.

  Rodney Mullen

  Eye, Night, Talking

  "Rodney Mullen Skates Central Park" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.

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• People think pop is rock, and the lines are getting blurred. Now Rihanna's wearing f-ckin' leather jackets, and it's really annoying . . . (My style is) high-class hooker. I dress for myself. Clearly, it's provocative, but it makes me feel good. And if the only reason it makes someone uncomfortable is because I'm 17, then that person's a scumbag because it shouldn't matter.

  Taylor Momsen

  Thinking, Rocks, Leather Jackets

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• Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.

  Patrick Stewart

  Believe, People, Important

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• I believe that many professing Christians are cold and uncomfortable because they are doing nothing for their Lord; but if they actively served him, their blood would begin to circulate spiritually, and it would be well with them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 55: Sermons 3125-3177”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Successful people are willing to do what makes them uncomfortable in the interest of growth.

  Bob Proctor

  Successful, People, Growth

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• I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.

  Nick Nolte

  Real, Awkward, Kind

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

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• As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.

  Junot Diaz

  Artist, Reality, Complexity

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• The most important to me is, Theo is a good person first and foremost. And I think that has a lot to do with it. He's not deceitful. He's an honest guy, a good guy. There's a lot more to this thing than it being a job for him, being born and raised here, the Red Sox being as important as they are to him. Above all else, Theo understands he's a compromiser. Theo understands that the clubhouse is our home. He doesn't invade that privacy often. When he does, he doesn't make you uncomfortable and that says as much about him as anything.

  Curt Schilling

  Jobs, Lying, Home

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• Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Lazy, Important

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• Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk up the beach. The idea is so comically daft that only one thing explains its survival-that lonely, frightened people wanted to expel God from the Universe because they found the idea that He exists profoundly uncomfortable.

  Peter Hitchens

  Beach, Lonely, Believe

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• Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the most uncomfortable circumstances. If you nurse hatred, however, you will not be happy even in the lap of luxury. Thus, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is both religious thinking and basic common sense.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Happiness, Being Happy

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