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• Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

  Julia Cameron

  Encouragement, Pregnancy, Artist

  Julia Cameron (2005). “The Sound of Paper”, p.123, Penguin

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• Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.

  William Davenant

  Design, Action, Fierce

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• For me, my faith is a really big part of my life, and it is important for me to walk it out every day, .. Part of our faith as Christians is the command that we let people see who we are as Christians. I'm doing my part to show who I am and that I'm not ashamed of it.

  Ashley Young

  Christian, Who I Am, People

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• If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make them buy it.

  Thomas of Villanova

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.

  Will Rogers

  Reading, Night, Diaries

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!

  Arno Hintjens

  Boss, Decent, Humans

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• Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal meekly. Frequently call to mind Our Lady's journey into Egypt with her Holy Child, and of all the poverty, contempt and suffering they endured. If you follow their example you will indeed be rich amid your poverty.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Children, Humility, Journey

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.211, Catholic Way Publishing

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• So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Desire, Proud

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.498, Harvard University Press

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• You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're not. We are what we are because of those guarantees.

  William J. Brennan

  Rights, Media, Bills

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• When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.

  Umberto Eco

  Believe, Thinking, Association

  Umberto Eco (2001). “Foucault's Pendulum”, Random House

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• I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Hands, Wife

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.340, Grove Press

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• Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Men, Long

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Men, Littles

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1929). “Essays, letters, miscellanies (2 v. in 1)”

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• I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.

  Jean Liedloff

  Children, Book, Men

  Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.18, Da Capo Press

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• America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of.

  Henry Rollins

  America, Citizens, Should

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• The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

  Criss Jami

  Teaching, Men, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.32, Criss Jami

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• Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.

  Criss Jami

  Creativity, College, Creative

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.77, Criss Jami

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• I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath their new pride in their race. It is as if they wanted to put it behind them as something to be ashamed of.

  Paul Robeson

  Spiritual, Sorry, Pride

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.

  Wallace Shawn

  Niece, Nephew, What If

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

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• I don’t know what happened through the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s that took feminism off the table, that made it something that women weren’t supposed to identify with and were supposed to be ashamed of. Feminism is about the fight for equality between the sexes, with equal respect, equal pay, and equal opportunity. At the moment we are still a long way off that.

  Keira Knightley

  Sex, Fighting, Opportunity

  "Keira Knightley: ‘Where Are The Female Stories?’" By Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2015.

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• The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Country, Self, Names

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.76

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• I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that.

  Michael Trevino

  Mom, White, Together

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part of causing us to stop helping the South Vietnamese. Now look what's happening. They're getting killed by the millions. Murdered by the millions. How the hell can she and her husband sleep at night?

  John Wayne

  Husband, Sleep, Night

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• I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They've been earned. They've been fought for - so there's no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it's to do with what's inside you. You can't obsess about the outside.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Thinking, Soldier, Care

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• In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.

  Cat Deeley

  Ambition, Britain, Ifs

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