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• Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil.

  Toni Morrison

  Names, Devil, Littles

  "'I Regret Everything': Toni Morrison Looks Back On Her Personal Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 20, 2015.

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• I will watch a ton of movies while I'm writing for inspiration. "Postcards from the Edge" was one. I love the mother-daughter relationship and all the hard humiliating stuff she has to go through. Or thinks she has to go through.

  Zoe Cassavetes

  Mother Daughter, Inspiration, Writing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.

  Sarah Silverman

  "Sarah Silverman: Playing The Dummy For Laughs". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 31, 2010.

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• It's humiliating to have to explain your value.

  Christine Vachon

  Values

  "Producer Roundtable: 6 Filmmakers on 'Compton' Threats, Tarantino Outbursts and the Truth Behind a 'Star Wars' 'Firing'". Interview with Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2015.

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• I know sometimes tragic or humiliating events propel you into a better life, I've experienced that for sure, but it still hurts. It still burns. I think sometimes it hurts more because you can't wish it had never happened. It improved your life in the long run.

  Autumn de Wilde

  Running, Hurt, Thinking

  Autumn de Wilde (2007). “Elliott Smith”, p.61, Chronicle Books

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• To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. [How] humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.

  Alfred Smee

  Success, Knowledge, Science

  Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.128

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• When I was in Afghanistan in 2007, I went from village to village where refugees had returned, and they were living out in the open under tents, sometimes completely exposed to the environment. And they were homeless, which meant they would lose children in the winter to the cold and in the summers in the extreme heat. It's extremely humiliating for them to be homeless, culturally it's very shameful.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Summer, Children, Winter

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Pete Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 2009.

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• By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.

  Jill Stein

  Russia, Empowering, Putin

  Source: www.politico.com

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• My father would never have come to visit, he detested Eva's [Braun] choice in a man and the fact [Adolf] Hitler had set her up in an apartment. To him it was deeply humiliating that she was living with a man at his own whim at an apartment he was paying for.

  Gretl Braun

  Father, Men, Choices

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• She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous lines, by boys... It had all been pure vanity, all just a wish, in these waning days of hers, still to feel power, still to have the assurance of her beauty and its effects.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Beauty, Boys, Vanity

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• Ronald Reagan, and before him, Richard Nixon, and before Nixon, a slew of conservative politicians going back through American history, have played to the idea that the great majority of poor people are somehow "undeserving," and being undeserving, merit at best very limited, oftentimes deeply coercive and humiliating, government interventions to better their finances. That narrative isn't about to disappear overnight; but it strikes me as being like a weak gruel - there's no sustenance in it, no heft behind the argument.

  Sasha Abramsky

  People, Conservative, Argument

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He starts condemning people, he starts humiliating people.

  Rajneesh

  People, Perfect, Trying

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• A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

  Amelia Barr

  May, Poverty, Painful

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.246, Library of Alexandria

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• If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

  Adam Savage

  Dignity, Mythbusters, Has Beens

  "MythBusters". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.

  Mike Tyson

  Risk, Embarrassing, Occasions

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• It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Mistake, Heart

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and it was nothing I had planned to do. It was just one of those beautiful moments, the alchemy of acting that is so mysterious, where you sort of go, "How did that come out of me?"

  Sarah Paulson

  Beautiful, Upset, Acting

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Should, Illegal, Gym

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.18, Macmillan

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• You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

  John le Carre

  Dirty, Mean, Boys

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• It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Giving, Advice, Needs

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• Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.

  April Winchell

  Fun, Cancer, Today

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• We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spiritual and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, it's not going to do anything for you.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Running, Spiritual

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• Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.

  Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

  Finding Yourself, Politics, Firsts

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• Traveling in the segregated South for black people was humiliating. The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to black people and white
  people that blacks were so subhuman and so inferior that we could not even use public facilities that white people used.

  Diane Nash

  White, People, Black

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• Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...

  Woodrow Wilson

  Benefits, Segregation

  Defending the re-segregation of federal offices, in Conference with members of the National Association for Equal Rights, November 1914.

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