Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 30

• I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

  Raymond Burr

  Years, Sea, San Francisco

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• I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.

  Roger Federer

  Children, Fun, Player

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• I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

  Mitchell Baker

  People, Want, Benefits

  "Getting There: Mozilla Foundation's Mitchell Baker". Interview with Erin Mershon, www.politico.com. October 1, 2014.

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• Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

  Tony Judt

  Responsibility, Past, Self Questioning

  Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.114, Penguin

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• In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.

  Francis Chan

  Reality, Earning It, Forgiving

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• Change is uncomfortable. Write that down.

  Justin Bieber

  Writing

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• In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually about 4 a.m. His suave young men, always commuting between Princeton and The Plaza in Stutz Bearcats never sat still for long. It was too uncomfortable, with a large flask in the hip pocket.

  Richard Armour

  Art, Men, Long

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• What's more interesting are the dynamics between people that involve hypocrisy or ignoring each other. That's what I want to write about. I like to make people uncomfortable because it's something we should be uncomfortable about.

  George Pelecanos

  Writing, People, Interesting

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• I really realized how much happier I am when I'm doing projects that I'm chosen to do, and on the flip side, how much unhappier I am on projects that make me feel uncomfortable.

  Jonathan Tucker

  Flip, Sides, Projects

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy - not that there's not room for both or one isn't enjoyable, just my personal taste, I like movies that comedy comes from out of flaws of people, things that are uncomfortable, out of tragedy.

  Vince Vaughn

  Character, People, Tragedy

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I had an opportunity to be in Frank's [Sinatra] circle, but I couldn't take advantage of it because I couldn't get over how awed I was by him. It was so uncomfortable for me because he meant so much to me, but I just couldn't be myself, so I fled rather than having those great nights hanging out.

  Ron Perlman

  Opportunity, Night, Circles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love to continue to challenge myself and put myself in situations that are slightly uncomfortable.

  Ron Perlman

  Challenges, Situation

  Source: collider.com

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• I can be absolutely comfortable with an apocalyptic Jesus because he was simply wrong. As long as he's wrong I don't worry about him, and basically everyone else who was announcing in the year 2000 at midnight, the end of the world is coming, I expect them to be wrong. Now if they're right of course, I'll be very uncomfortable that night. But as long as everyone for 2000 years has been wrong about the apocalypse, I can be quite comfortable with it. It's space fiction.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Jesus, Night, Years

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I understand that actors lose their looks, they change over time, but people don't lose their talent. I think that, as people get older and the people who make the decisions get older, they don't like hiring people much older than them because it reminds them of their fathers, and they don't like telling people older than them what to do. It makes them uncomfortable. I think that happens a lot.

  Kurt Fuller

  Father, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I've seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to hear that. It's uncomfortable and scary and you realize it's the punkest performance you've ever witnessed.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Rocks, Scary, Political

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• You've got to avoid situations that make you uncomfortable.

  Nick Jonas

  Situation

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

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• Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.

  Eleanor Antin

  Beautiful, Good Life, Dark

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• With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Sometimes, Intention

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• When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won't be disappointed in me.

  John Wayne

  Want, Disappointed, Mines

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• Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the 70s, Fathers Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Fathers Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

  Art Alexakis

  Mom, Fathers Day, Dad

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• God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Determination, Attitude

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.148, Discovery House

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• You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive some monstrous female, but even if this were the most men-bashing movie ever made-let all us women get guns and kill men-it wouldn't even begin to make up for the 99% of all movies where the women are there to be caricatured as bimbos or to be skinned and decapitated. If men feel uncomfortable in the audience it is because they are identifying with the wrong character.

  Callie Khouri

  Character, Gun, Men

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• LeBron doesn't have any weaknesses, or he doesn't have a glaring weakness. So you've got to pick up on the smaller things to try to make him uncomfortable. Like knowing which side he likes to shoot threes off the dribble, which side he likes to drive. One side he'll drive left more often, and the other side he'll drive right more often.

  Andre Iguodala

  Nba Championships, Knowing, Trying

  "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". Interview, scores.nba.com. June 17, 2015.

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• Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, People

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• When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes and my strange expression, but they feel the power that emanates from my dedication to the practice. So they are comfortable with me, yet they're very uncomfortable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Brother, Crazy, Buddhism

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