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• I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.

  Joshua Foer

  School, Years, Dozen

  "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I think as long as you're not being malicious and you're not hurting people then you should not be ashamed of what you do.

  Lily Allen

  Hurt, Thinking, Long

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

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• I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.

  Ben Fountain

  Littles, Gaps, Embarrassed

  "Interview with Ben Fountain, Author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

  Michael Fassbender

  People, Scratches, Way

  "What's a nice boy like Michael Fassbender doing in a film like Shame?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.

  Loleatta Holloway

  Children, Years, Voice

  "Loleatta Holloway, Gospel and Disco Singer, Is Dead at 64" by Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2011.

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• You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

  Naomi Judd

  Pain, Treated

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• Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

  Kary Mullis

  Names, Mind, World

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• Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide.

  Aaron Neville

  Philosophy, Guides, Conscience

  Song: Tell It Like It is, Album: The Very Best of Aaron Neville, 2006

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• For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.

  Cat Power

  Kids, Thinking, Voice

  "Cat Power: 'I'm Not Ashamed To Hear My Voice'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 31, 2012.

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• The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I did. I asked for help.

  Carnie Wilson

  Thinking, Progress, Important

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• One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Heaven, Hours

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• People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Eye, People

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, Solid Christian Books

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• I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.

  Kurt Cobain

  Mother, Father, School

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• Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.

  Tomas Transtromer

  Storm, World, Proud

  "Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer dies aged 83" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2015.

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• Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame is not mine; the church should be ashamed. They say now they're sorry - what they mean is, sorry they were found out.

  Mary Norris

  Sorry, Mean, Church

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• I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.

  Chaske Spencer

  Mother, Father, Taken

  "Chaske Spencer, Actor (Twilight)". Interview with Gabriel Canada, www.racebending.com. October 31, 2010.

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• There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.

  Chaske Spencer

  Mom, Kids, Eye

  "Chaske Spencer, Actor (Twilight)". Interview with Gabriel Canada, www.racebending.com. August 17, 2010.

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• You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Calling, Poverty, Wealth

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.101

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• I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

  Seneca the Younger

  Masters, Servitude

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 699, Troades, 989, 1922.

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• I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

  Yelawolf

  Passionate, Done, Reason

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• You have something to say. Something of your very own. Try to say it. Don't be ashamed of any real thought or feeling you have. Don't undervalue it. Don't let the fear of others prevent you from saying it... You have something to say, something that no one else in the world has said in just your way of saying it.

  William Hughes Mearns

  Fear, Real, Feelings

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• For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.

  Robert Southey

  Writing, Personality, Poet

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1853). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.226

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• O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

  Homer

  Children, Home, Eye

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.90

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• I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.

  Claude Monet

  People, Suffering, Dying

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• I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Book, Writing, Suffering

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