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• A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

  Nate Ruess

  Writing, Thinking, May

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• You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

  Thomas Friedman

  Winning, People, Aspiration

  "Read My Lips". "New York Times", June 11, 2002.

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• I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Skinny, Flaws

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• Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

  Will Durant

  Culture, Chaos, Creation

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• I tend to share whatever I know in general. I've never been a person to horde information for the sake of my own skin, you know what I mean? Not share so somebody doesn't take your job, I've never had that kind of insecurity. I also had a management company, too, so we were always one of those companies that shared information with our artists. Whatever they wanted to know, as much as they wanted to know, they could know.

  Queen Latifah

  Jobs, Mean, Artist

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• Insecurity must follow the transfer of responsibility from self to others, particularly when transferred to arbitrary and capricious government. Genuine security is a matter of self-responsibility, based on the right to the fruits of one's own labor and freedom to trade.

  Leonard Read

  Responsibility, Government, Self

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• You might declare that global warming and energy insecurity, not to mention urban sprawl and pollution, have intensified the sin of indulging one's motoring desires. And I would not argue with that point. You're right. I am a bad man. But over the long term, if you want to develop a new transportation and energy policy, you'd probably want to err on the side of assuming that people won't change much. And it is human nature to like to be empowered.

  Joel Achenbach

  Men, Long, People

  "The Car of the Future". voices.washingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• Oh sure, I have lots of fears. My job is to conquer my fears. The irony of being a performer is that I have huge insecurities. Each of us is responsible for what happens in our lives. When good things happen, we take ownership, but when bad things happen we often don't take responsibility. There are no mistakes or accidents. Consciousness is everything and all things begin with a thought. We are responsible for our own fate. We reap what we sow, we get what we give and we pull in what we put out.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jobs, Mistake, Responsibility

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• You can't love someone unless you are in an equal position with them. A lot of women have to cling to men out of fear or insecurity, and that's not love - basically that's why women hate men.

  Yoko Ono

  Hate, Men, Equal

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• As we build systems that are more and more complex, we make more and more subtle but very high-impact mistakes. As we use computers for more things and as we build more complex systems, this problem of unreliability and insecurity is actually getting worse, with no real sign of abating anytime soon.

  Matt Blaze

  Real, Mistake, Impact

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

  Taylor Swift

  Skins, Thick Skin, Thick

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• Girls weekend with the 'Vampire Diaries' girls has become a big deal! It's our quality time. It's so much fun to unload and not feel guilty complaining or talking about your insecurities or bonding over things that you thought you were on your own about.

  Nina Dobrev

  Girl, Fun, Weekend

  "Nina Dobrev Exclusive Interview" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. September 4, 2012.

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• It's amazing to realize that a lot of the insecurities I had when I was younger have pretty much disappeared.

  Kristen Stewart

  Realizing

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• I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Feelings, Cheerful, Lord

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• It's designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Competition, Wages

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• Thank you, but I'm afraid I can't accept your compliment. You see, I'm an atheist, so if I'm also God, that would mean that I don't believe in myself, and at this point in my life, I don't need the added insecurity.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Atheist, Believe, Mean

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• It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

  Henri Nouwen

  True Identity, Want, Energy

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• To identify yourself with your personality is more or less a reflex. You must see, when the reflex comes up, that it is a kind of feeling of insecurity; you are looking for a hold.

  Jean Klein

  Personality, Feelings, Kind

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• For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and then once it's done, it's done. After you put it out there to the public you never know which songs are going to work or even if the album is going to work as a whole so there is a little bit of nervousness around predicting what the numbers will be and if it's going to be well-received.

  John Legend

  Song, Numbers, Albums

  A Drink With Interview, adrinkwith.com. April 14, 2015.

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• It's one thing when you are photographing others, but when you are exposing yourself and your insecurities, that's the biggest risk. That's always scary.

  Petra Collins

  Scary, Risk, Exposing Yourself

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties.

  Deborah Reber

  Girl, Thinking, Self

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• Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

  Lester R. Brown

  Growth, Environmental, Population

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• It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

  Isaac Asimov

  Height, Tests, Restless

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “The End of Eternity”, p.246, Macmillan

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• Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

  Alan Watts

  Trying, Results, Secure

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, Home, Writing

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