Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 24

• And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

  Donna Leon

  People, Want, Advantage

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• I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

  Franka Potente

  Emotional, Actors, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Honest, Being Honest

  "Elizabeth Reaser on Broadway, Breasts and Playing Opposite the Big Boys — Brave and True". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

  Octavia Spencer

  Mind, Speak, Tendencies

  "Interview with Octavia Spencer of The Help". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. August 9, 2011.

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• There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

  Amity Shlaes

  Children, Grandparent, Zombie

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• Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He's much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Father, Successful, Views

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• You want the audience to be uncomfortable.

  Richard Thompson

  Want, Audience

  "The guitarist picked the right career" by John Burger, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2003.

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• I have very, very few friends. I live in a very tight circle and emotionally I'm probably not as generous as I once was. In an average week I probably meet 150 new people and that's uncomfortable sometimes.

  Veronica Webb

  Average, Circles, People

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• I don't like to think of my readership as "fans," a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

  Grant Morrison

  Thinking, Fans, Kind

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

  Aimee Mann

  Couple, Past, Ideas

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• As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

  Will Self

  May, Discrimination, Wells

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• SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.

  Douglas Adams

  Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings, Sitting

  "The Meaning of Liff". Book by Douglas Adams, John Lloyd, 1983.

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• I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.

  Johnny Depp

  Alcohol, Drug, Way

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• Individuals who are uncomfortable with themselves sometimes emit vibes that make others uncomfortable.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Vibes, Sometimes

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• Training, a lot of the time, is just uncomfortable. But discipline is all about doing the thing that's uncomfortable.

  Frank Shamrock

  Mma, Discipline, Training

  Frank Shamrock, Charles Fleming, Mickey Rourke (2012). “Uncaged: My Life as a Champion MMA Fighter”, p.252, Chicago Review Press

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• Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.

  Charles Issawi

  People, Abuse, Reform

  Charles Philip Issawi (1991). “Issawi's laws of social motion”, Darwin Pr

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• If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.

  Stephen Dillane

  Feelings, Actors, Awful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

  Faith Prince

  Energy, Symptoms, Force

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• We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Love, Life, Family

  "Sometimes Youthful Stupidity is a Better way to Find Happiness than Making Mature Choices" by Frank Schaeffer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2014.

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• I've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.

  Martha Wainwright

  People, Tears, Stage

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• Do the Difficult and Uncomfortable If You Would Like an Easy and Comfortable Life.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Easy, Difficult

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• I didn't want to pretend to be a conceptual artist that charges $10,000 for an experience. It's just not what I am. I'm a photographer and I make prints. And people buy a print, and I understand that. But I'm uncomfortable with buying an experience.

  Alec Soth

  Artist, People, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 5% of women have true multiple orgasms only through intercourse and these women typically find oral sex uncomfortable.

  Gail Saltz

  Sex, Multiple, Intercourse

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• The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Mother, Teacher, Unknown Worlds

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1888). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”

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• The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.

  William Hazlitt

  Religious, Men, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.232, Delphi Classics

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