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• The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.

  Stephen King

  Feelings, Important, Size

  "The Body". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

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• We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

  Alanis Morissette

  Anger, Inspiration, Sadness

  Energy Times interview, www.energytimes.com. July-August 2013.

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• We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Atmosphere, Skins

  Man and Superman (1903) act 1

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• The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

  Stephen King

  Important, Hardest, Writing Love

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.

  Oliver North

  Fall, Guy, Knows

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• The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Respect, Integrity, Character

  Man and Superman (1903) act 1

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• I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.

  Randy Harrison

  Attention, Want, Down And

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• I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

  John Locke

  Men, Littles, Information

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• The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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• There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Break Up, Breakup

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• And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Thinking, Drug Use, Order

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• Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Idle

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.250

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• The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, Intelligent, Power

  Interview on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.

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• I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Teacher, Ignorance

  "Tusculan Disputations". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book I. 25. 60, c. 45 BC.

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• I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Love, Sad, Past

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• But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

  Minnie Driver

  Movie, Actors, England

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• Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Liberty, Poverty

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.24, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Writing, Hands, Famous Writers

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.233, Penguin

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• I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.

  Reba McEntire

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Women, Loneliness

  Mother Teresa, Roger (frère) (1989). “Mary, Mother of Reconciliations”, Paulist Pr

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• A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Stupid, Silly, Passion

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.207

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• I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

  Lauryn Hill

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

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• I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies

  Tommy Kirk

  Apology, Gay, Has Beens

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• There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

  Livy

  Poverty, Parsimony

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 4,

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• Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

  Andrei Platonov

  Alive, Feels

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