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• What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Technology, People, Faces

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• I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Kind

  "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 20, 2001.

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• We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

  W. H. Auden

  Sunny Afternoon, Sunny Day, Humiliation

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• If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.

  Shannen Doherty

  Flirty, Flirting, Guy

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• I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

  Bill Wyman

  Shadow, Adulation, Audience

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• At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Roots, People, Worry

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• But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

  John James Audubon

  Distance, Gun, Bird

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• I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

  Derek Jeter

  Enjoy, Ifs

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• Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

  J. B. Priestley

  Inspirational, Men, Risk

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• We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.

  Brad Meltzer

  Hero, Ordinary, Boring

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Eye, Thinking, Color

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• I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

  Rita Rudner

  Too Much, Conversation, Uncomfortable

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• I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Motivational, Athlete, World

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

  Alexis Bledel

  Jobs, I've Learned, Certain

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• I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

  Chris Evert

  Girl, Athlete, Giving

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• The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Revenge, Men, Doe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.78, Jerome K. Jerome

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• I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

  Clea DuVall

  People, Uncomfortable, Feels

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• It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.

  Nicole Kidman

  Theatre, Want, Natural

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 25, 2017

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• I was not ambitious as a child. My father encouraged me to enter competitions and contests, which became very much part of my life. I was not the typical teenager. I was very closed, shy and didn't hangout with my friends at disco's. My parents wanted me at home. Singing became my life, I traveled a lot on the job, and my job became my dream.

  Laura Pausini

  Dream, Jobs, Children

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• I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon.

  John J. Geddes

  Fear, Moon, Needs

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• I've always been quiet and kind of shy. I'm sociable, but I would probably migrate to a corner.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Quiet, Kind, Corners

  "Sugar Ray Leonard Interview Real Steel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2011.

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• I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Literature, Want

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• Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Knives, Reputation

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• I have seldom been described as shy.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Shyness

  Interview with Jennifer Levitsky, www.bookreporter.com. April 28, 1998.

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• My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

  Al Pacino

  Firsts, Language, Limelight

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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