Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 7

• There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.

  Donald Johanson

  Lost Friendship, Close Friends, Difficult

  "The Quest for Human Origins". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.

  Anna Kendrick

  Falling In Love, Character, Elements

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• To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Mean, Fighting, Men

  "In Politics, What Works For A Man Still Does Not Work For A Woman" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2009.

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• If you really want to make a relationship work, at some point in time, you're going to have to make some sacrifices and do some things that are a little bit uncomfortable.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Sacrifice, Want, Littles

  "Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl Interview KILLERS". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 23, 2010.

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• I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Hair, Color, Wigs

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• I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.

  Geddy Lee

  Littles, Endorsements, Feels

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• Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.

  Christian Louboutin

  Men, Shoes, Trying

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• I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, People, Trying

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

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• I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

  Norm MacDonald

  Religious, Thinking, Political Opinions

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• As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Thinking, Challenges, Needs

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• In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.

  Shirley Manson

  People, Armor, Nerves

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• I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

  John Mayer

  Pain, Car, People

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• Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.

  Angela Merkel

  Two, Issues, People

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes me uncomfortable, but that's as far as it goes.

  Lea Michele

  Outspoken, Persons, Knows

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• There's nothing sexy about doing a nude scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down.

  Helen Mirren

  Sexy, Dressing Up, Scene

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

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• It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable.

  Moby

  Information, Constitution, Individual

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• The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

  Michael Moore

  Art, Purpose, Cases

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• Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Way, Size

  "PJ O'Rourke - the rightwinger it's OK for lefties to like". Interview with Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.

  Tom Petty

  Team, Player, Hands

  Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 15, 2010.

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• I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

  Pink

  Art, Thinking, Order

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• Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

  Jason Reitman

  Childhood, Feelings, Skins

  "Jason Reitman: 'Growing up sucks, doesn't it?'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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• I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

  Rita Rudner

  Shy, Too Much, Conversation

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• Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, People, Worry

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• I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Movie, Hate, Nice

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• An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thinking, Morality, Man And Superman

  Man and Superman act 3 (1903)

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