Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 21

• It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

  Murong Xuecun

  Criminals, Calling, Difficult

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• I have a taste for the macabre. I really am not drawn to imagery that is pretty, things that are just pretty. I’m drawn to things that challenge you, that make you nervous, that make you uncomfortable.

  Pieter Hugo

  Challenges, Nervous, Imagery

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• In a world threatened by a famine of righteousness and spiritual starvation, we have been commanded to sustain the prophet. As we give heed to, uphold, and affirm prophetic word, we witness that we have the faith to humbly submit to the will, the wisdom, and the timing of the Lord. We heed prophetic word even when it may seem unreasonable, inconvenient, and uncomfortable. According to the world’s standards, following the prophet may be unpopular, politically incorrect, or socially unacceptable. But following the prophet is always right.

  Carol F. McConkie

  Spiritual, Giving, World

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• That’s how we often react when grace comes at us. It’s awkward. God offers us something that’s too good to be true—unearned, unmerited, total forgiveness—and we stand there, stiff and uncomfortable, waiting for the embrace to stop so we can get back to the business of earning our way into heaven. We need to embrace grace. We need to learn how to hug back.

  Judah Smith

  Waiting, Heaven, Grace

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.

  James Young

  Change, Trying, Suits

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• I have this little neighbor next door. He comes over and tells me about playing Call of Duty, and he's talking about, 'Aw yeah, I slit this guy in the throat and then I stuck a grenade up this guy's ass.' He's describing it in all this detail, and that makes me uncomfortable. I don't think that's good for him.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Thinking, Playing Games, Doors

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• It doesn't make much sense and it's nil premium. They're going to have co-CEOs...which is a very uncomfortable structure.

  Martin Sorrell

  Marketing, Structure, Premium

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• The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.

  Robert K. Merton

  Running, Risk, Mind

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• The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In each case, history entails the uncomfortable presence of earlier unresolved roles.

  Charles S. Maier

  Ukraine, Legacy, Roles

  Charles S. Maier (1998). “The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a new preface”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• I don't think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented itself. It makes me a bit uncomfortable, but at least she never sold the story before trial to the tabloids.

  Catherine Crier

  Opportunity, Thinking, Amber

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• I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Writing, Successful, Intelligent

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• Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too "cool" or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

  Barry Zito

  Sports, Thinking, Advice

  "Barry Zito Visits Athletics Nation". Interview with Papi Blez, www.athleticsnation.com. Mar 29, 2005.

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• I'm very uncomfortable in my own skin.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Skins, My Own

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• I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.

  Amanda Palmer

  Teenager, Thinking, Rocks

  "Amanda Palmer: 'Thank God my best friend's a therapist'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• A lot of people worry much too much about what their children are reading... If a child picks up a book and reads something she has a question about, if she can go to her parents, great. Or else they will read right over it. It won't mean a thing. They are very good, I think, at monitoring what makes them feel uncomfortable. If something makes them feel uncomfortable they will put it down.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Book, Reading

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• I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

  Chaz Bono

  Whole Life, Whole, Felt

  "From Chastity to Chaz: Sonny and Cher's Child On His Sex-Change Operation". Interview with Andrea Sachs, content.time.com. May 09, 2011.

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• All on-set kisses are weird, no matter who it is, especially with people standing around coughing and sneezing. It's very uncomfortable!

  Bella Heathcote

  Kissing, People, Sneezing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.

  Thomas Harris

  Rays, Drs, Found

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.11, Penguin

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• Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the rift between how it sees itself (Kantian autonomism) and how it actually exists (pathetic prole-culture).

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Ego, Culture

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• Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.

  Sarah Lewis

  Motivational, Hard Work, Persistence

  Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  May, Limits, Push Yourself

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• Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.

  Asa Larsson

  Views, Public Opinion, Crime

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• So long as we use comfort and security as our criteria of success, we will fear our own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs us into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable.

  Caroline Myss

  Long, Comfort, Use

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• Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

  Gore Verbinski

  Reading, Sound, Strange

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• I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm thinking about doing something illegal. So, whenever I'm around a cop, I get uncomfortable and nervous, worried that I'll say the wrong thing or look so guilty they'll arrest me anyway. Being completely out of my mind on drugs doesn't help the situation any.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Drug, Police

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