Cringe Quotes - Page 4

• If you catch somebody doing something wrong, he will just cringe away and curl up. He will not listen anymore. Instead, he will think of how he can counterattack.

  Jane Goodall

  Thinking, Curls, Ifs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What if there's another terrorist attack? I cringe at the ideas of our enemies watching this, knowing much like the president we have now. You can do anything you want, you can jerk us around, you can harass our naval ships the way Iran is doing right now, and we're not going to do anything. We're not going to react.

  John McCain

  Iran, Ideas, Knowing

  "Clinton, Trump square off in commander-in-chief forum". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2016.

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• I talked to some of Donald Trump supporters and they, say, yeah, sometimes he makes me cringe, but I still like him, and I still think he's the right thing for America.

  Don Gonyea

  Thinking, America, Sometimes

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• In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

  Chris Carmack

  Wings, People, Television

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When we put too much hope in a candidate or a party we set ourselves up for disappointment. When I see a poster with [Barak] Obama's image with the word "hope" under it, something in me cringes - our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness, the old hymn goes, all other ground is sinking sand.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Disappointment, Party

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• I can play a song for somebody, and when certain parts come on, I cringe. I might not like my vocal or the way I sang a certain word. Playing intimate shows is when I feel the most vulnerable; you can hear and see everything. Those are the most rewarding as well.

  T. Mills

  Song, Play, Might

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• Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch.

  Natalie Portman

  Watches, Faces, Hard

  "Natalie Portman talks directing her first movie and why you'll never see her on social media". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. August 17, 2016.

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• He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe," Joanna Hoffman said. "It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and know how to manipulate people. Knowing that he can crush you makes you feel weakened and eager for his approval, so then he can elevate you and put you on a pedestal and own you.

  Walter Isaacson

  Crush, Knowing, People

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

  Idris Elba

  Stripes, Actors, Want

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• I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway.

  Steve Martin

  Way, Psychological, Knows

  "Steve Martin and Claire Danes". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 19, 2005.

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• In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.

  Emily Mortimer

  Jobs, Fun, Years

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• I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Giving, Embarrassed, Give Me

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• I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Stupid, Watches, Interviews

  "Michelle Pfeiffer - What She Did for Love". Interview with Liz Smith, www.goodhousekeeping.com. June 4, 2007.

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• I like sex writing that makes me think, makes me cringe, makes me angry, makes me look at it in a new way.

  Rachel Kramer Bussel

  Sex, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

  John Mason Brown

  Friendship, Names, People

  John Mason Brown (1950). “Still seeing things”

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• When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out.

  Kingsley Amis

  Strong, Writing, Wine

  "Toast of the town" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2006.

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• The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

  Dallas Willard

  Humility, Order, Favors

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• Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

  Julie Christie

  Attention, Magazines, Saws

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• You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.

  Jane Roberts

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Helping Others

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.538, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Looks, Remember, Sometimes

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• I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

  Barack Obama

  Grandmother, Men, White

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.

  Thomas Jane

  I Can

  Interview with Ken P., ca.ign.com. February 20, 2004.

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• I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.

  Jude Law

  Actors, Want, Interest

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

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• Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into it by one single desire. You want a thing and it's precious to you. Do you know who is standing ready to tear it out of your hands? You can't know, it may be so involved and so far away, but someone is ready, and you're afraid of them all. And you cringe and you crawl and you beg and you accept them--just so they'll let you keep it. And look at whom you come to accept.

  Ayn Rand

  Hands, Waiting, Tears

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.138, Penguin

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• When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer's character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation - an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example.

  Bill Roorbach

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Bill Roorbach (2000). “Writing Life Stories”, p.97, Writer's Digest Books

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