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• The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Shadow, Sun, Turns

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• Being honest, if I had a daughter I wouldn't want her listening to a Nicki Minaj CD until she was a certain age. Even when I meet my fans and they tell me they are 12, I cringe a little. I always say, 'Listen. I don't want you saying the bad words, put school first.'

  Nicki Minaj

  Daughter, School, Cds

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• It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.

  Michael Kiwanuka

  Annoyed, Bits, Hard

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

  John Simm

  Interviews, Used, Bigs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always want my standup act to appeal to everybody in the room, and when I started standup, and I would see people talk about their kids and their wife, and I'd always cringe a little bit, like, 'I can't get a date, I don't know what you're talking about.'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Kids, Talking, People

  "Interview: Jim Gaffigan Talks Family, Food And Dad Is Fat". Interview with Samantha Abernethy, chicagoist.com. May 10, 2013.

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• Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and humble. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe. You walk, but our brothers crawl. We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do as you please with us, but do not send us away from you.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Blessed, Humble

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.40, Xist Publishing

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• I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Yearbook, Hard Times, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I cringe every time I see no evidence of push-back by the Republican Party on Obama policies.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Republican, Evidence

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Years, Looks

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I touch on sex in my stand-up and it's funny, because when I talk about sex from an adult point of view, people cringe. But if I talk about war or killing, people laugh. So it's sick. It's really demented.

  Tracy Morgan

  Sex, War, Views

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• Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving Up, Generosity, Understanding

  Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.286

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• Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Character, Mouths, Berlin

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

  Ida B. Wells

  Running, Home, Men

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• When I look back now I wouldn't say that I cringe, but I start to realize how naive I was then. I feel much better suited for the job now. 
  (on being Manchester City manager)

  Stuart Pearce

  Jobs, Cities, Looks

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• I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list of attributes that he would be looking for in a woman. I would replace compatibility with dialectic.

  James Ellroy

  Males, Would Be, Lists

  Interview by Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 9, 2010.

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• I guess I cringe, because sometimes I don't even watch my live performances back. When I edit, it's this feeling of seeing my mistakes. It's always a mixture of loving characters, but being the artist that created it and not trying to go too deep in criticizing myself.

  Kalup Linzy

  Mistake, Character, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'

  Tom Ford

  Want, Firsts, Designer

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• Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.

  Kalup Linzy

  Anxiety, World, Emotion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Two, People, Flattery

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1701). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself”, p.211

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• Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Writing, Sometimes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing poetry for a long time, since I was about eight, but I remember my first one that I put to chords. I was really trying to be like the psychedelic era Beatles, I was obsessed. All I could think about was Beatles and Hendrix. So I tried to write a psychedelic song, and it was the worst. I couldn't even... If I read it now - I still have the book somewhere - it makes me cringe out loud. It was just about psychedelic stuff.

  Ladyhawke

  Song, Book, Writing

  "Coup De Main x AllTracks | Ladyhawke". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2016.

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• I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose-paid but good. It is now your turn to reap.

  Anne Lamott

  Stars, Energy, Noses

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• One of the revelations in that book [Lincoln in the Bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. Even that word - citizenship - for someone my age, it makes me cringe. But, to me, the political space we're in now argues for a reboot of fairly simple ideas and the examination of the way that Americans have not been living into them.

  George Saunders

  Book, Simple, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

  Jean Lorrain

  Blood, Ice, Everyday

  Jean Lorrain (2002). “Nightmares of an Ether-drinker”

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• I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me just cringes.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mean, Ambitious, Looks

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