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• Personally, I like films that make me a little bit uncomfortable because I think you're uncomfortable when something is real.

  Alice Englert

  Real, Thinking, Littles

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• The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

  Craig Shirley

  Movement, Definitions, Revolution

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• It is an accurate statement that the followers of Witchcraft do not usually proselytize, which means you aren't going to find us standing on your local street corner thumping our Books of Shadows. Nor do you have to worry about jumping out of the shower to answer our serene and smiling faces at the door with your clothes stuck to various uncomfortable places on your wet body. But just because we (hopefully) aren't the forcible type doesn't mean we don't exist.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Book, Mean, Doors

  Silver RavenWolf (2012). “To Ride a Silver Broomstick: New Generation Witchcraft”, p.18, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid.

  Tracy Letts

  Kids, Thinking, Childhood

  "Tracy Letts Is Still Haunted by His Past". Interview with Alex Witchel, www.nytimes.com. March 21, 2014.

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• In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.

  Al Alvarez

  Nervous, Poet, British

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.

  Seth Lloyd

  Running, People, Stories

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• Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  People, Political, Revolution

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• Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Way, Majority, Groups

  "'Marcos is Gay'". Greeb Left Weekly, Issue 296, www.greenleft.org.au. November 05, 1997.

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• If you bring that scrappy fierceness with you it works until you get big, when really pushing all the way really feels uncomfortable...When you're the little guy that's lauded, that's heroic.

  Travis Kalanick

  Guy, Littles, Way

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• Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming.
  Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming. Many assume that only pleasing relationships have value, but that is not the case. Your awareness of an unwanted situation evokes from you a clear Vibrational request for something different. And so, even those uncomfortable interactions with others form the Vibrational basis of your expansion.

  Esther Hicks

  Interaction With Others, Expansion, Different

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• How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Creative, Growth

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• Most doctors are uncomfortable with medical conditions that have a psychological basis.

  John E. Sarno

  Pain, Doctors, Medical

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• The mother eagle teaches 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. And just so does our God to us. He stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save ourselves from fatal falling. Read your trials in this light, and see if you cannot begin to get a glimpse of their meaning. Your wings are being developed.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Mother, Fall, Light

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

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• I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.

  Frederick Lenz

  Numbers, People, Meditation

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• All I can tell you is I played with Johnny Mitchell. Johnny Mitchell was one of the greatest athletic talents I ever played with, but I could never trust him. When the game was on the line and he was supposed to run an out route at 10 yards, he would run an in route at eight and slide to the outside and scream to me that he was open. But it was how he got open that really made me uncomfortable in trusting him.

  Boomer Esiason

  Sports, Running, Eight

  "5 Questions For Boomer Esiason". Interview with Andrew Marchand, nypost.com. November 24, 2006.

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• My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.

  Alex Trebek

  Dad, Drinking, Thinking

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• I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can't answer for her.

  Verne Troyer

  Answers, Felt, Beyonce

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

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• I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.

  Bob Woodward

  Book, Long, Asking

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• There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past. It is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of personal autonomy. It sees America as a religious nation. It views patriotism as allegiance to God. It secretly adores coercion and conformity. Despite our constitution, despite the legacy of the Enlightenment, it appeals to millions of Americans and threatens our freedom.

  Sherwin Wine

  Religious, Father, Past

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• David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism - he thought it was lazy and self-serving.

  Jonathan Yardley

  Powerful, Real, Self

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The traditional view of purpose says it comes from on high, from God, from the Creator. Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. Whereas people used to think of meaning coming from on high and being ordained from the top down, now we have Darwin saying, "No, all of this design can happen, all of this purpose can emerge from the bottom up without any direction at all."

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, Views, Ideas

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.

  Nolan Gerard Funk

  Comfort, Actors, Fantasy

  "Nolan Gerard Funk Joins The Cool Kids". Interview with Javy Rodriguez, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2013.

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• I've always done music to push people to get them to get uncomfortable in their seat so they could wrestle with things. Not to become pew potatoes, just simply sitting there, growing fat with knowledge and not applying it.

  LeCrae

  People, Sitting, Done

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• I think my biggest revelation was to write entirely from the heart, and to convey emotion, even when it meant forcing myself to feel uncomfortable in doing so.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

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• Fortunately, I'm able to make a living from comics, so I'm privileged enough to be quite choosy, though most cartoonists can't afford to be. It's really an uncomfortable situation, since I'm not an illustrator, though I do get calls from morally indefensible businesses offering me money to decorate their ambitions. It's extremely rare, almost unheard of, in fact, that I am asked to do a comic strip. Do writers get calls to pen Toyota advertisements? Do composers get asked to write chamber pieces about exercise machines?

  Chris Ware

  Writing, Ambition, Exercise

  Source: www.avclub.com

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