Awkward Quotes

• I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

  Steven Spielberg

  Majority, Shy, Momentum

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• Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Change, Single

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 28, 2013

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• I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

  C. S. Lewis

  Happiness, Thinking, Doe

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. . . . Myth has two main functions. The first is to answer the sort of awkward questions that children ask, such as: 'Who made the world? How will it end? Who was the first man? Where do souls go after death?'. . . . The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs.

  Robert Graves

  Religious, Children, Believe

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• 'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls.

  Robert Browning

  Play, Soul

  'A Light Woman' (1855) st. 12

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• Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beauty, Beautiful, Self Esteem

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• I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

  Tony Kushner

  Shy, Quiet, Social

  "Tony Kushner's Paradise Lost"by Arthur Lubow, www.newyorker.com. November 30, 1992.

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• As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

  Plutarch

  Men, Thyme, Honey

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• Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

  Eliphas Levi

  Order, Attention, Awkward Situations

  "The Great Secret, Or, Occultism Unveiled".

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• When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Want, Firsts

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• Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

  Federico Fellini

  Hype, Misery, Desperate

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

  Conan O'Brien

  Baseball, President, Cards

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• Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

  Alfred Adler

  Responsibility, Tears, Vehement

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• I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.

  David Ogilvy

  Marketing, Needs, Purpose

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker.

  Denise Richards

  Mean, Normal, Bed

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

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• It was strange at times. We had to make out so much that we kind of got over it. It was really awkward.

  Clea DuVall

  Strange, Kind, Advocating

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• So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

  Ang Lee

  Beautiful, Thinking, Scene

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• When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

  Calamity Jane

  Home, Men, Clothes

  Calamity Jane (2013). “The Life And Adventures Of Calamity Jane: A Short Memoir”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

  Pat Morita

  Real, Kids, Awards

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• Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.

  Arvid Carlsson

  Use, Way, Treatment

  Interview with Michael Connett, thenhf.com. October 4, 2005.

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• I always made an awkward bow.

  John Keats

  Farewell, Bows, Made

  Letter to Charles Armitage Brown, 30 Nov. 1820

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• Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sometimes, Like You, Something New

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• I don't actually like dates. I get awkward as I never know what to do.

  Selena Gomez

  Knows

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

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• I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.

  Carson Kressley

  Being Yourself, Growing Up, Kids

  "Carson Kressley: There’s nothing better than having Oprah in your corner". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. June 23, 2011.

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• I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.

  Louis C. K.

  Growing Up, Nerd, Littles

  "Louis C.K. on Twitter and Tracy Morgan". Interview with Austin L. Ray, www.cnn.com. June 21, 2011.

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