Insecure Quotes - Page 19

• I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.

  Lake Bell

  Stopping, Auditions, Bathroom

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

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• Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can get enough love. They grow jealous of our work and come to regard it as a rival. These people can destroy you, so kick them out of your life or don't admit them in the first place.

  Florence King

  Jealous, Self, People

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• In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us.

  Sue Johnson

  Partners, Disguise, Vulnerability

  Sue Johnson, Kenneth Sanderfer (2016). “Created for Connection: The "Hold Me Tight" Guide for Christian Couples”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.

  Alanis Morissette

  Fighting, Voice, Critics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

  Mila Kunis

  Thinking, Choices, Perception

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• "The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years. Just didn't know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out...

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

  Walter Lippmann

  Successful, Men, Talking

  "Essays in the Public Philosophy". Book by Walter Lippmann, 1955.

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• No matter how safe and lovely your harbour is, leave it to see the insecure and the ugly one; only then you can reach the truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lovely, Matter, Ugly

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• [Wearing padding to make my breasts look larger for a movie] was great, but it also made me think, you know, a lot of women who go out and get implants, what's so insecure about them that they would rather have someone look there than in their eyes?

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Eye, Thinking, Looks

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• World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.

  John Ralston Saul

  Class, Cities, Entertainment

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.

  Steve McQueen

  Mean, Feelings, Racing

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• You're insecure and need a blanket like Linus.

  King Sun

  Rap, Hip Hop, Needs

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• I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

  Adele

  Looks, Want, Mum

  "Adele: 'I have all the say; I have power over everything I do'". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 13, 2009.

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• People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

  Albert Bandura

  Self Esteem, People, Threatening

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• All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is insecure because the nation's identity is not secure. The nation doesn't provide the third world writer with a secure identity, because the nation is colonized, it's oppressed, it's part of somebody else's empire.

  Mark McMorris

  Identity, Empires, World Literature

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough to have discovered the reasons behind his insecurity, and do something about them." ...Lucy

  Jane Green

  Thinking, Insecurity, Excuse

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• For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.

  Jack Welch

  Real, Self Confidence, Simple

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• When you get famous and rich when you're young, what happens is you start feeling insecure.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Feelings, Rich, Young

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our superiority complex and forcing us to reconsider our relationship to animals.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Thinking, Animal, Self

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• The feelings that we equate with love-feeling sick, feeling insecure, not eating-that's just lust getting in the way. It's your ego saying, 'I want to get laid' and 'I hope she likes me more than I like her.' Love is something that should be there in 20 years' time.

  Simon Cowell

  Love Is, Years, Sick

  "He Said, She Said: Celebs on Love". www.elle.com. February 13, 2012.

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• A lot of men these days are insecure in front of women, because women have become so strong. Men are very frustrated because they don't know what women want.

  Pernille Fischer Christensen

  Strong, Men, Frustrated

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Why is McDonalds still counting? How insecure is this company? 40 million, 80 billion million jillion killion tillion... who cares? Is anyone really impressed by that any more? Ooh, 89 billion sold? All right, I'll have one! I'm satisfied! I'd like to tell the CEO of McDonalds, "Look. We all get it, okay? You've sold a lot of hamburgers. Whatever the number is, just put up a sign, 'McDonalds: We're Doing Very Well.' We are tired of hearing about every goddamn one of them."

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Tired, Numbers, Mcdonalds

  "I'm Telling You for the Last Time". Stand-up comedy, 1998.

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• I would say that I probably had an unhealthy love affair with drinking. I grew up as this kind of insecure kid, you know, kind of making my way. And drinking took all of that away.

  Michael Botticelli

  Drinking, Kids, Way

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Just as we're always told that schoolyard bullies are actually deeply insecure, liberals rationalize their own ferocious behavior by claiming to have been wounded somehow. What about the little guy our poor, insecure bully is beating the living daylights out of? How's his self-esteem coming along? That is the essence of liberals: They viciously attack everyone else, while wailing that they are the victims.

  Ann Coulter

  Self Esteem, Essence, Bully

  "Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America". Book by Ann Coulter, www.today.com. January 6, 2009.

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• When you're young, you're very insecure. And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say to myself, don't think too much, just get on and do it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Past, Thinking, Too Much

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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