Shameless Quotes

• We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

  Steve Jobs

  Ideas, Best Job, Small Jobs

  "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires". PBS Documentary, 1996.

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• I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

  Samuel Johnson

  Morning, Food, Tea Drinking

  Review in the 'Literary Magazine' vol. 2, no. 13 (1757)

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• One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Party, I Have Learned, Spineless

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• The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Religious, Islamic, Heart

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• Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.

  Maxim Gorky

  Lying, Struggle, Ambition

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• You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Cockroaches, Ashamed

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• All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

  Tacitus

  Rome, Cities, Flocks

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• A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

  Edmund Burke

  Perfect, Democracy, World

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 139

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• I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

  Gus Van Sant

  Dope

  "Drugstore Cowboy". www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

  Thomas Sowell

  Liars, Successful, Reflection

  "Big Lies in Politics". townhall.com. May 22, 2012.

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• While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.

  Ken Mehlman

  Hands, Effort, Tears

  "GOP leaders agree to joint Katrina hearings", www.cnn.com. September 8, 2005.

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• Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

  Aeschylus

  Passion, Men, Victory

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• Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.

  William H. Macy

  Beautiful, Rough, Shows

  "William H. Macy on Shameless, Directing Sex Scenes, and Winning a SAG Award" by Bruce Fretts, www.vulture.com. February 27, 2015.

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• All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of consent," and of "maintaining the national honor," are all gross, shameless, transparent cheats - so transparent that they ought to deceive no one.

  Lysander Spooner

  Country, Government, Honor

  Lysander Spooner (1972). “Let's Abolish Government”, Ayer Company Pub

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• I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Travel, Dirty, Naughty

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• Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Love Is, Decent, Glorious

  Elizabeth Von Arnim, Elizabeth (1995). “Love”

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• With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Liars, Lying, Wrath

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• It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, Water, Political

  Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dog, Pet, Spirit

  Pablo Neruda, “A Dog Has Died”

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• Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a strong sense of shame you also have a strong desire to overcome it. And that's when you can write.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Strong, Writing, Giving

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• I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Share, Appetite

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 11, 1968.

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• The pig is the most shameless animal on the face of the earth. It is the only animal that invites its friends to have sex with its mate. In America, most people consume pork. Many times after dance parties, they have swapping of wives; many say 'you sleep with my wife and I will sleep with your wife.' If you eat pigs then you behave like pigs.

  Zakir Naik

  Sex, Party, Sleep

  "Answers To Non Muslims Common Questions About Islam". Book by Zakir Naik, 2008.

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• Shameless is a show I would watch even if I wasn’t on it, it’s my kind of show.

  Vanessa Bell Calloway

  Watches, Kind, Shows

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• With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Aging, Pious

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• If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him.
  If you seek Him, you are absent from Him.
  If you seek other-than-Him, you are shameless before Him.
  If you make demands on other-than-Him, you are distant from Him.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Doubt

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