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• I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, Paris, Doe

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• The fact that "Léon: The Professional" doesn't have every award in the world is a sign that it is underrated. I'm not even ashamed to say that I cried during every scene.

  Ryan Hall

  Awards, World, Facts

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• Women have to ask for higher paychecks. And not equal, I don't want equal - why do I have to have the same paycheck as a guy who has much less experience than me? I want more. And we have to stop feeling ashamed for asking for more, and we have to begin to feel a little more entitled to things, to normal things.

  Isabel Coixet

  Guy, Feelings, Asking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

  Steven Spielberg

  School, Students, Wells

  "War Horse - Steven Spielberg interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Eye

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• We men should be ashamed of ourselves. I think 85 percent of men are dangerous to women. We need to change to a values system nested in compassion and generosity, and women have carried that torch throughout history.

  Patch Adams

  Men, Thinking, Compassion

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

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• I'm not judging myself; I'm not dissing what I do. I'm proud of what I've done and I'm proud of what I'm working on. I've accomplished something and I'm not going to be ashamed to be happy about what I've done.

  Nicki Minaj

  Judging, Done, Proud

  Source: www.complex.com

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• If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Defeat, Disgrace, Do The Best

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it.

  China Mieville

  People, Proud, Geek

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.

  John Waters

  Cities, Film, Made

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Remembrance of Jesus' passion will heal your soul of resentment, by making it ashamed of itself when it remembers the patience of the Lord. Some people have wearied themselves and suffered for a long time in order to extract forgiveness. By far the best course, however, is to forget the offences, since the Lord says: "Forgive at once and you will be forgiven in generous measure." (cf. Luke 6:37-38)

  John Climacus

  Forgiveness, Jesus, Passion

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• I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing.

  Carrie Fisher

  Jobs, Kids, Parent

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Carrie Fisher". Interview with Nancy Tobin, www.bphope.com. February 1, 2010.

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• I'm not ashamed of the things I believe and why I believe them.

  Mike Huckabee

  Leadership, Christian, Believe

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• [Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it.

  Black Hawk

  War, Men, Years

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• Are you kidding me? It's insane that civil rights are being denied people in this day and age. It's embarrassing, and it's heartbreaking. It goes without saying that I'm completely in support of gay marriage. In 10 years we'll be ashamed that this was an issue.

  Chris Evans

  Gay, Rights, Years

  "Chris Evans On Gay Marriage: ‘In 10 Years We’ll Be Ashamed That This Was An Issue’". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2012.

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• If a man were poor or hungry, [some] would say, let us pray for him. I would suggest a little different regimen for a person in this condition: rather take him a bag of flour and a little beef or pork, and a little sugar and butter. A few such comforts will do him more good than your prayers. And I would be ashamed to ask the Lord to do something that I would not do myself. Then go to work and help the poor yourselves first, and do all you can for them, and then call upon God to do the balance.

  John Taylor

  Prayer, Work, Men

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• The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

  Carlos Santana

  Atlanta, People, Georgia

  "Carlos Santana Visits Georgia, Blasts State On Immigration" by Felix Contreras, www.npr.org. May 20, 2011.

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• Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought.

  William Morris

  Flower, Thinking, Should Have

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

  John Piper

  Knowing, Secret, Atheism

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• Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.

  Christopher Morley

  Philosophy, Rain, People

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• I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

  John Burns

  Son

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• You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

  Lord Hailsham

  Boredom, Boring, Ought

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• The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.

  Tony Parsons

  Fighting, British, Know How

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• What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

  Charles A. Dana

  Paper, Morality, Lord

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• The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a disgraceful story of imperialism, exploitation, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. I take a very different view. I believe that the balance sheet of our history is one of heroic achievement and that we have achieved much more as a nation of which we can be proud of than which we should be ashamed.

  John Howard

  Believe, Views, Racism

  Sir Robert Menzies Lecture, 1996.

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