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• I spend most of my time wearing uncomfortable things, so for me, it's all about trainers.

  Cara Delevingne

  Shoes, Trainers, My Time

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• I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

  David Sedaris

  Calling, Okay, Felt

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• Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change.

  Megyn Kelly

  Mean, Fox News, Feels

  "The Newest Left-wing Lie: Megyn Kelly Is a Racist Who Believes In Santa". Article by Matthew Sheffield, www.newsbusters.org. December 12, 2013.

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• You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

  Roger Martin

  Odds, Choices, Risk

  "The Big Lie of Strategic Planning". Article by Roger Martin, hbr.org. January - February 2014.

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• Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.

  Julian Assange

  Messengers, Revealing

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• I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with the risks associated with it, and a little bit willing to fail, pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and try again. We don’t seem to want to do that as much as we used too.

  Dean Kamen

  Thinking, Dust, Risk

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• Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Good Intentions

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.605, ShandonPress

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• New beginnings – professional, personal, or come what may – are always uncomfortable, but being open to them is the only way to grow. In the end, we are all capable of so much more than we think.

  Marissa Mayer

  New Beginnings, Thinking, May

  "Marissa Mayer Tells The Story Of Why She Became Yahoo CEO, Even Though She Was About To Have A Kid" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. March 29, 2013.

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• People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

  Joy Kogawa

  People, Suffering, Use

  Joy Kogawa (1983). “Obasan”, Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books

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• I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

  Bob Hawke

  Squat, Fence, Bottom

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• Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage

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• If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.

  M. R. James

  Writing, Fire, Dying

  M. R. James (2011). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.406, OUP Oxford

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• I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.

  Daniel Tammet

  Office, Feelings, Style

  "A genius explains". Interview with Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2005.

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• Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

  M.I.A.

  Order, Bullshit, Silence

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• I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess.

  Patricia Monaghan

  Experts, Students, Truth Is

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• Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.

  Erik Naggum

  Animal, People, Together

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• I was uncomfortable because I had never been that nude before. I had never shown my legs, and never shown quite that much skin. I always played frigid doctors or the plain sisters who got the guy at the end. What did I know from ladies in caves who ate only meat? And when the outfit came in, I never thought of myself that way. I mean, I always thought of myself as having my father's chest. I was very self-conscious.

  Mariette Hartley

  Father, Mean, Doctors

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• I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.

  Nick Nolte

  Real, Awkward, Kind

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

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• The most important to me is, Theo is a good person first and foremost. And I think that has a lot to do with it. He's not deceitful. He's an honest guy, a good guy. There's a lot more to this thing than it being a job for him, being born and raised here, the Red Sox being as important as they are to him. Above all else, Theo understands he's a compromiser. Theo understands that the clubhouse is our home. He doesn't invade that privacy often. When he does, he doesn't make you uncomfortable and that says as much about him as anything.

  Curt Schilling

  Jobs, Lying, Home

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• I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable.

  Robert Goulet

  Trouble, Used, Audience

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• Every time you're making a choice, one choice is the safe/comfortable choice - and one choice is the risky/uncomfortable choice. the risky/uncomfortable choice is the one that will teach you the most and make you grow the most, so that's the one you should choose.

  Derek Sivers

  Choices, Safe, Should

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• When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Writing, Sandwiches, World

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• Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.

  Anita Hill

  Sex, Talking, Want

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 11 October 1991, Washington, D.C.

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• Somewhere along the journey of remembering who we really are, we may find ourselves in a very uncomfortable space, a void in which we realize that we haven't totally let go of our old beliefs, and on the other hand we have yet to fully plug into the new truths we have discovered. This awkward "place of mind" can bring on an internal crisis of uncertainty, instability, confusion, frustration, and a most unspeakable despair as the "dark night" sets in and makes its presence felt.

  Nicholas Schmidt

  Letting Go, Dark, Night

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• I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

  Boy George

  Ideas, People, Complaining

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