Insecurity Quotes - Page 27

• I always felt, and still feel, one of my best strengths as a director is having been an actor for a long time. Nobody knows actors and their insecurities and strengths and everything more than somebody who's done it before.

  Paul Feig

  Strength, Long, Directors

  "Paul Feig And John Francis Daley Talk Filmmaking And Remember 'Freaks And Geeks'". Interview with John Francis Daley, www.forbes.com. January 5, 2015.

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• When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed us to become more interdependent and interrelated. But the development, the extraordinary development, of those structures and institutions has not fundamentally transformed our humanity. We are still those animals with fears and anxieties and insecurities in the face of death and dread and disappointment and disease.

  Cornel West

  Disappointment, Thinking, Animal

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Emotional, People, Age

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• The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.

  Ashley Montagu

  Race, Racism, Feminist

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• But trust can take you a long way. And my faith takes me a long way. And I think that our pains, our vulnerabilities, and our insecurities can fuel us to be better. To try harder. To dig deeper.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Pain, Thinking, Long

  "My Faith Pulled Me Through" by Sheila Weller, www.sfgate.com. November 5, 2012.

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• The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

  Ross Bleckner

  Thinking, Broken, Perspective

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• The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once disrupted by war, revolution, natural cataclysm or epidemic, might collapse into a chaos not easily rebuilt.

  F. L. Lucas

  War, Epidemics, Fundamentals

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• My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair — things I’m so very grateful for now.

  Shailene Woodley

  Real, Grateful, School

  "Shailene Woodley: This is What Badass Looks Like". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.marieclaire.com. March 17, 2014.

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• The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

  Henry Ford

  Land, Earth, Get Away

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• Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  War, Insecure, America

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• Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.

  Polly Bergen

  Imitation, Form

  Polly Bergen (1974). “Polly's principles; Polly Bergen tells you how you can feel and look as young as she does”, Peter H. Wyden Incorporated

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• The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.

  Helene Deutsch

  Insecure, Soul, Facts

  Helene Deutsch (1944). “The psychology of women”

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• When I work on something I'm not excited about or not as proud of it as I'd like to be, then I try to work even harder to make the next one and address those insecurities, I tackle insecurities rather than run from them.

  David Gordon Green

  Running, Trying, Addresses

  Source: collider.com

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• You're always you, with your own insecurities.

  Michelle Chamuel

  "Catching Up With Michelle Chamuel Of 'The Voice'". "Here & Now" with Robin Young, nhpr.org.

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• The fashion industry [is] built on, and thrives on, our collective insecurity.

  Stacy London

  Fashion, Thrive, Collectives

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• Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Bully, Cover Ups

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• By trying to give an artistic approach through my book I stepped unwillingly into other fields. Like a dentist being asked about a throat ache on a much more relevant scale, I was caught in trying to explain what was unexplainable for me. In the end, trying to explain why it was unexplainable finally led to a huge general insecurity in dealing with the subject at all.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Book, Giving, Trying

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• If you're in a subordinate position of some sort and pretty much all of us are at some point in our lives, your general tendency is to try and impress the people above you or person above you so well that they will like you, keep you or maybe promote you. In the process of doing that you are not aware that that person above has insecurities and if you try so hard they may see that you are after their job or that you are better than they are or they might envy the fact you are younger.

  Robert Greene

  Jobs, People, Envy

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• You have to trust the journey. That has become my motto for years: trust the journey. Because in the end, we're all kind of fearful. We all have fears and insecurities and ups and downs.

  Kim Basinger

  Journey, Years, Kind

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Needs, Way

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

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• I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

  Evan Dando

  Insecure, Way, Ready

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• First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Jobs, War, Approval Rating

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• Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

  Justin Vernon

  People, Irony

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Order, Resignation

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• I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.

  Sally Kirkland

  Writing, Ideas, Matter

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