Insecurity Quotes - Page 21

• I really think insecurity is something that comes with being an actor - I don't know actors who aren't insecure. I do think I kind of lie to myself - there is a percentage of ego involved. And I don't say that's a bad thing - it's good to know that it's there whether we like it or not. But ego is like a lion that we have to keep under control.

  Penelope Cruz

  Lying, Insecure, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I realized that the reason why my head was so cluttered and why I was so unstable and not taking care of myself, all of these things, was that I was unhappy. If I wanted to get to a happier place and find some kind of peace, I was going to have to address problems with myself, things from my life up until that point that I hadn't dealt with: insecurities, fears, and those kinds of things.

  Benjamin Booker

  Unhappy, Care, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Indonesian people are living in constant fear, in horror. Often they do not realize it, because this state of mind, this 'living in fear', is considered 'biasa'. This fear, also explains why almost nobody rebels, or is willing to start a rebellion against the regime. People are paralyzed by an abstract fear, which actually has its roots in ignorance and insecurity.

  Andre Vltchek

  Ignorance, People, Mind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Any Democrat running is trying to get that Barack Obama coalition, which is an increasingly diverse voter base. It's young folks. It's minorities, as well as white women. I don't think we as a party can afford to alienate or not try to speak to the concerns, fears, insecurities, aspirations of white men. We should not give up that ground.

  Cory Booker

  Running, Giving Up, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A lot of singers don't really know who they are. They have this massive insecurity and this massive ego and they are sort of pulled between both. I mean, why do you want a lot of people to look at you all the time and listen to you? There is something going on there, there is sort of need to express and attention. It's not just ego, it's some sort of complex thing and sometimes you create characters to say something you want to say and then you just throw yourself into that.

  Gavin Friday

  Character, Mean, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If a therapist is feeling insecure in therapy, a lot of therapists will try to sort of push that aside to try to do the therapy. Instead, we would ask people to get with that feeling of insecurity, because after all, the client is being asked to do the same thing. It has a kind of a quality of two human beings in the same situation, really, working through these psychological processes. And yeah, you hired me; I'm working for you as a therapist. But I'm not up here and you're down there. And what you're struggling with, at other times and with other areas I'm struggling with.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Struggle, Insecure, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Exploitation is an abuse of power, an act of domination driven by basic insecurity. I think all hierarchies create opportunities for that. Donald Trump is an extreme illustration of an otherwise normal tendency. Institutions are supposed to have safeguards to prevent or mitigate the tendency. Instead they often become vehicles for abuse.

  Linden MacIntyre

  Opportunity, Thinking, Abuse

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We all have our insecurity and that's normal. And you have to learn to accept that about being an artistic person or aspiring to be an artistic person is that fears and insecurity, they don't go away.

  Annette Bening

  Going Away, Artistic, Accepting

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Fear. People are afraid of talking about their fears and insecurities. They're afraid of expressing emotion beyond anger, dominance, or power, and they're afraid of getting in touch with their feminine side.

  John Legend

  People, Emotion, Feminine

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. Number one: They're trying to please whoever signed them to a contract. Number two: They're trying to appease a gigantic audience and they get this false magnification of love. I came from a thing which nowadays would be the exception to the rule. I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from. Which made me look at everything else as procedure.

  Chuck D

  Mother, Father, Love You

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview With Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives.

  Drew Barrymore

  Insecure, Alternatives, Waste

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• A lot of people think my sarcasm comes from insecurity and defensiveness, but I assure you I'm just being petty and cruel.

  Dana Gould

  Sarcasm, Thinking, People

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• I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

  Tom Hooper

  Block, Thinking, Self

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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• The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and new economy is making lots more poor or recognize their fellowship with the insecurity of the poor, the portion of the population for whom the system does not work.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Believe, Leeches, Population

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We all have our fears, our insecurities. I'm not different from anyone else.

  Five for Fighting

  Different

  "John Ondrasik Interview from Five For Fighting". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We have to try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes. We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down. This life can be incredibly difficult, especially if we're alone. And if we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.

  Joshua Radin

  Trying, World, Matter

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• One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Guy, Feelings, Kung Fu Panda

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• I have a daughter who, when younger, possessed no barrier between her emotional self and the outside world. Her emotional insides spilled out all over, and, especially when I was sleep-deprived and probably a little paranoid, this really threatened me. It was as if she were embodying and expressing the insecurities and freaked-outedness I never express, and which I've learned over the years to keep hidden.

  Heidi Julavits

  Daughter, Sleep, Emotional

  Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• All communities, and low-income communities especially because of food insecurity and lack of access to healthy foods, need more farmers markets, need more community gardens and urban farms. It would be great if people living in communities had the tools and resources to grow food in their own backyard - community-based food systems.

  Bryant Terry

  Garden, People, Community

  "MoJo Video: Bryant Terry’s Vegan Soul Kitchen". Interview With Brittney Andres, www.motherjones.com. April 10, 2009.

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• Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.

  Owen Wilson

  Hard Work, People, Acting

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Thinking, Feelings, Outsiders

  "Kumail Nanjiani Can Totally Relate to His Character on HBO’s 'Silicon Valley'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 2016.

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• I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators to offer simplistic explanations and to be resistant to expressions of attitudes that can be viewed as unpatriotic, which is further interpreted as applicable to any tendency to challenge the government when it claims to be acting overseas to avoid repetitions of 9/11 or to encroach on domestic freedom to identify suspicious persons and behaviors.

  Richard A. Falk

  Teacher, Attitude, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

  Emily Saliers

  Thinking, Prejudice, Human Nature

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• I do have insecurities. I don't know if you can tell. I'm not brimming with confidence.

  Andy Kindler

  Confidence, Knows, Ifs

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• Insecurity is like herpes. It's not going anywhere. May as well learn to laugh at it.

  Dov Davidoff

  Laughing, May, Herpes

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