Ashamed Quotes - Page 34

• I'm certainly not ashamed to say that I was on some anti-depressant medications. I believe there are times in life where we have to raise our hand and say I need help. I found a good doctor.

  Naomi Judd

  Believe, Helping, Need Help

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• Around 2010 - I took a long look at everybody I had around me because I wanted to make sure they were aligned with how I felt. I'm not ashamed of who I am or where I came from or the size God gave me. There was a large percentage of people who weren't [on the same page]. So I really shook up my team.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Team, Long, People

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• I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

  Louie Anderson

  Hurt, Sorry, Responsibility

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• I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.

  Mary J. Blige

  Beautiful, Smart, School

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• It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.

  Emily Blunt

  "Stars Spotlight Personal Triumphs Over Stuttering" by Alan Mozes, abcnews.go.com. June 16, 2009.

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• I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Change, Believe, Men

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• We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Eye, Men, Presence Of Mind

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

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• Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

  Billy Corgan

  Injury

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• Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.

  Evan Davis

  Mistake

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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• I certainly know first hand the waste one lady can create through her primping routine, because I am a victim of fashion: to me a day without makeup and a bouffant to match is a day wasted. I love it all - whether it's fancy, cheap or, I'm ashamed to say, even if it's bad for the environment.

  Beth Ditto

  Fashion, Makeup, Hands

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2007.

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• My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.

  Julian Fellowes

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

  Carrie Fisher

  Ill, Better Me, Surviving

  "PrimeTime" with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com.

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• My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

  Jodie Foster

  Definitions, Adore, Knows

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• I was so ashamed of who I was.

  Lady Gaga

  "Born to Not Get Bullied". Interview with Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2012.

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• I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

  Jennifer Garner

  Play, Television, Broadway

  "Jennifer Garner Interview - THE KINGDOM". Press conference, collider.com. September 27, 2007.

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• I mostly get takeout, I have to admit - I don't know if that's something to be ashamed of. I'm not much of a cook.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Cooks, Knows, Ifs

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• It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, World, Poverty

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.32, Jerome K. Jerome

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• The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

  B. B. King

  Children, People, May

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• It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

  Wangari Maathai

  Men, People, Feelings

  "I Will Disappear Into the Forest". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2005.

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• I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall. But I don't wear them any more because you don't have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can't even remember the last time I wore heels.

  Elle Macpherson

  Beautiful, Fashion, High Heels

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• Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

  Mike Mills

  Sadness, Important, Unattractive

  "SFIFF ’11: Ewan McGregor & Mike Mills Talk The Sadness, Humor & Joy Of ‘Beginners’" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. April 25, 2011.

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• I'm delighted to make as many people feel ashamed as possible. There's probably a site like that for everybody. I've heard Newt Gingrich has his own as well.

  Dylan Moran

  People, Newts, Site

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• I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Sick, Doubt, Paper

  "Rupert Murdoch: News Corporation Magnate". Book by Sue Vander Hook, p. 32, 2011.

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• With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Grandmother, Past, Ideas

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• I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Running, Dad, Home

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