Insecurity Quotes - Page 19

• Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case.: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Promise, Overcoming, Might

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• My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.

  Beth Moore

  Past, Roots, Issues

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• When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

  Tommy Shaw

  Rights, Labels, Certain

  Interview with A-J Charron, www.guitarnoise.com.

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• I don't know if people really care about my opinion on things or how I come up with things, and maybe that's an insecurity and why we're comedians in the first place, so I think with that you keep doing the material, you keep trying to be funny cause you think that's all you're wanted for.

  Nick Thune

  Thinking, People, Comedian

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was wracked with insecurity.

  Ray Romano

  "Ray Romano: Standup, Sitcoms And Real-Life Humor". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 5, 2011.

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• As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

  Susan Sontag

  Insecure, Past, Space

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Other people's belief changes you. We all have insecurity, and uncertainty, and to have that glow cast over you by somebody that you respect, makes a gigantic difference.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Differences, People, Over You

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• This deep insecurity has been going on for a while. I mean I picked it up in 2014 sitting in focus groups of women who were feeling terrified, not just about that ISIS was coming, but terrified that their children couldn't be safe at school, terrified about what was happening in Ferguson and other places.

  Chuck Todd

  Children, School, Mean

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I have the insecurities of any actress, I suppose of any woman. Even the most beautiful ones feel unhappy. Look at Bardot: she was suicidal. But I like to play with the camera. I like to ham it up.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Beautiful, Suicidal, Play

  "Chloe Sevigny: the interview" by Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• I think in general, people look at all Olympic athletes, look at all superstar athletes, and they say, "Okay, this guy doesn't have any insecurities." They're almost like these icons who - I don't know how to say it, but like they can't make mistakes. But the reality is, and I'll tell you this firsthand, a lot of great athletes have a lot of insecurities, and they have a really hard time dealing with a lot of so-called losing or however you want to classify it.

  Apolo Ohno

  Mistake, Athlete, Hard Times

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

  Mike Leigh

  Problem, Film, Los Angeles

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum...for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.

  Jeremy Griffith

  Expression, Enlightenment, Principles

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• My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

  Taylor Swift

  Flaws, Easy, Wells

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• I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

  Samantha Bond

  Suspicion, Kicks

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• On the journey of the warrior-bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward turbulence and doubt however we can. We explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, we let it be as it is. At our own pace, without speed or aggression, we move down and down and down. With us move millions of others, companions in awakening from fear.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Moving, Warrior

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• I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.

  Beth Moore

  Years, Addiction, Behavior

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.150, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I have insecurities about being a good mom, or balancing my career with motherhood. All of those are very strong, very real obstacles. My motto is just unconsciously, and maybe now consciously because I'm saying it, is sink or swim. I'm a fighter.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Mom, Strong, Real

  "Charisma Carpenter Talks SURVIVING EVIL, Telling Her Own Story of Survival, Connecting to Other Survivors, and Finding the Strength to Move On". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

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• No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Gone, Underestimate

  Dan Savage (2002). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America”, E P Dutton

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• I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather, they exploit forms of fear and insecurity that are there for any population - no political organisation of life could ever fully do away with fear and insecurity; but some work to intensify, accelerate, and make more acute forms of fear, and to provide ideological focus for such intensified fears, at which point critical thinking has a fierce rival. The critical analysis that shows precisely how those forms of fear are promulgated, and for what purpose.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Thinking, Psychics

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• I am so weak over love and heartbreak. My music is rhythm and blues and with that said, the blues element of it is a major portion. I feel like it has been lost in R&B and a lot of people are scared to talk about their vulnerabilities and insecurities. They want to keep it up and in the club.

  Adrian Marcel

  People, Elements, Clubs

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Literally as I walk into the studio I say, "God, hollow me of all my junk. Hollow me of my insecurity, my pride and my doubt. Make me hollow enough that you can breathe something through me that would turn eyes to you." And whether that's a song or a conversation you're going to have with a co-worker, or whatever you're facing, that's for everybody.

  TobyMac

  Song, Eye, Pride

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• A doctor can be a doctor today and they will be a doctor tomorrow. But an actor, well you're not working at anything right now, whereas the doctor is going to have their job tomorrow, for the most part. So there's the insecurity of that, and you have to go where the work is.

  Audra McDonald

  Jobs, Doctors, Actors

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• Two things were falling apart, my personal life, my professional life. And I realized that all those things were supposed to make me happy, but nothing could fill me up except myself. So I went into analysis. I went to see a doctor, to talk about my lack of self-esteem. I don't know how to say it better: my lack of self-esteem, my insecurity, and how these things were not going to fill me up. And I'd better fix myself and then find out what I liked. For me, therapy was the greatest gift I could ever give myself. There's nothing I could have done for myself that would've been better.

  Sherry Lansing

  Self Esteem, Fall, Two

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Growing up from Nirvana to all the bands I was listening to at the teenage time, those were my best friends, more than my real friends. Those were the people that sang me to sleep or gave me the confidence I needed to go to first period. When we're all so insecure with weird stuff, when we're having weird feelings toward girls or guys, or whatever. It's the insecurity of life that we all go through. So music helped me.

  Aaron Bruno

  Girl, Growing Up, Teenage

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• Being fired is something... You have to really want to be an actor after you go through something like that. Because the level of self-doubt and insecurity that creeps into your psyche is monumental.

  Billy Crudup

  Source: www.avclub.com

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