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• The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.

  George Orwell

  Fighting, Economic Inequality, People

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.150, Jester House Publishing

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• We live in an uncertain world and we want to believe that what a man is and what a woman is-I know that. And people don't want to critically interrogate the world around them. Whenever I'm afraid of something or I'm threatened by something, it's because it brings up some sort of insecurity in me. I think the reality is that most of us are insecure about our gender. They think, 'Okay, if there's this trans person over here, then what does that make me?

  Laverne Cox

  Believe, Pride, Gay

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• Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.

  Erma Bombeck

  Self Esteem, Cat, Body

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• The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Civilization, Machines, World

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

  Jane Jacobs

  Promise, Answers, Ideologues

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.115, Vintage

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• Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

  Amy Adams

  Long, Actresses, Made

  "July cover star: Amy Adams". Interview with Tamsin Crimmens, www.elleuk.com. June 3, 2013.

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• Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.

  Zig Ziglar

  Reality, People, Achievement

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• Do you want to feel insecure? Count the number of Christmas cards you sent out, and then count those you received.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Numbers, Cards

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• When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

  John Larroquette

  People, Degrees, Up To You

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

  Susie Orbach

  Ideas, People, Healthy

  "'Bodies are a big business'". Interview with Julia Korbik, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. December 29, 2014.

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• I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  People, Cold, Feels

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• Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

  Anita Baker

  Fall, Artist, Categories

  "Break Time Is Over : Anita Baker's last album was in 1990. Then everyone thought she was lost to motherhood. Guess everybody forgot to ask the important person: Baker". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. September 18, 1994.

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• The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically no money at all, while another may feel insecure with a million dollars in the bank. Your feelings of security or insecurity are due to your emotional programming.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Emotional, Feelings, Insecurity

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• Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to money, to things, you feel a certain security: at least there is something to ding to; you don't feel empty. Maybe you are full of rubbish; but at least something is there, you are not empty.

  Rajneesh

  Would Be, Rubbish, Empty

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• That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on herself, who was cowardly and brave, who was confused and determined-that girl who was me-still exists. I call on her when I write. I am the me of today-the person who has become a woman, a mother, a writer. Yet I am the me of all those other days as well. I believe in the reality of that past.

  Norma Fox Mazer

  Girl, Mother, Dream

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• Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow.

  Hadley Freeman

  Acceptance, Logos, Desperate

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• Jealousy doesn't show how much you love someone, it shows how insecure you are.

  Valerie Quennessen

  Shows, Love Someone, How Much You Love Someone

  "Fictional character: Lina". "Summer Lovers", www.imdb.com. 1982.

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• It was a very vulnerable time going from being insecure about my body and who I am to becoming comfortable with me. I had to tune out what the hell everybody else had to say about who I was. When I was able to do that, I felt free.

  Queen Latifah

  Who I Am, Tunes, Body

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure.

  Sandra Bullock

  Optimistic, Joyous, Persons

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• If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Approval, Seeking, Hard

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• I think what you feel like as a teenager never really goes away. If you were teased for being fat or thin or having bad teeth, you're always insecure about that particular area of yourself. So I've never thought of myself as any kind of beauty, iconic or otherwise.

  Kate Winslet

  Teenager, Thinking, Teeth

  "Kate Winslet Looks Ahead". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 8, 2009.

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• I've always been a bit insecure about my smile, but its days like these where all I wanna do is smile.

  Nick Jonas

  My Smile, Bits

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• It's insecure, and it's immature.

  Zoe Saldana

  Immature

  "Zoë Saldana: Her Allure Photo Shoot" by Judy Bachrach, www.allure.com. May 13, 2013.

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• The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Military, Target

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.259, Princeton University Press

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• Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.

  Lynn Jennings

  Running, Athlete, People

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