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• We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, World, Action

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• If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Parent, Prejudice

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• For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

  Winona Ryder

  Moving, Long, People

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

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• I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Hate, Publishing House, Novelists

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• Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Looks, Photographer, Photograph

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• Being outspoken about my faith isn't just something that I do; it's who I am because my faith isn't just a little piece of my life. It is my life. It's not a question of whether I'm outspoken about it or not. I'm definitely not ashamed of it.

  Tim Tebow

  Who I Am, Pieces, Littles

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• I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.

  Shania Twain

  Who I Am, Embarrassed

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

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• I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Hurt, Kids, People

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor

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• There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.

  Mike Wallace

  Path, Safe, Licking

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• You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see, tied up with something so vital to me, I do not think I shall ever shake you off. Nor do I wish to. I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead. That is why, when I speak of you to others, I am just a bit ashamed. It's hard to talk of one's self so intimately

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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• What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Liberation, Oneself, Seals

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• I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.

  Philip Pullman

  Ignorance, Thinking, Sight

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• Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

  Jane Austen

  Cold Hearted, Sensibility, Marianne Dashwood

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• Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers! Calvin: I just don't test well.

  Bill Watterson

  Boys, Missing, President

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• You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

  Joseph Heller

  Answers, Might, Failing

  "Catch-22". Book by Joseph Heller, 1961.

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• If we knew how often the obedience of others is affected by our own, and how often our stepping forth soon brings forth a whole platton of helpers, and how often our speaking forth soon creates a chorus - we would be even more ashamed of our slackess and our silence.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Silence, Would Be, Obedience

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• I am ashamed of my century for being so entertaining but I have to smile.

  Frank O'Hara

  Century

  "In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems".

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• I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?

  Barbra Streisand

  Children, Women, Feminist

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• The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Lying, Evil

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2133, GENERAL PRESS

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• I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders...I think domesticity certainly doesn't make it easy to write, you know, because you've got a lot of distractions and I think a writer is always looking for distractions.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sports, Art, Secret

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• Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

  William J. Clinton

  Healing, Bipolar, Helpful

  "10 Male Celebrities Who Are Smashing Mental Health Stereotypes" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2016.

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• The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?

  Muhammad Ali

  School, Mean, Average

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• I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.

  Patsy Kelly

  Night, Paychecks, Studios

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.

  Melissa Leo

  Struggle, Years, Habit

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

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