Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 24

• Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  Feelings, England, Genius

  Sara Jeannette Duncan (2012). “A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')”, p.165, tredition

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• 70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  "Rubio Delivers Address on 50th Anniversary of the 'War on Poverty'". www.rubio.senate.gov. January 08, 2014.

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• Almost everyone is uncomfortable talking about money.

  Olivia Mellan

  Money, Talking, Talking About Money

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• I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and a book I tried to read, or his voice would suddenly sound instead of the words I tried to write on a page. ... I found love annoying and uncomfortable, like fetters, until I got used to it.

  Nora Waln

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I only like the live audience. I don't even like to do standup where it's being filmed. Because it affects the way the audience responds to what you say, because it makes them uncomfortable. You have to perform in a light room, and I prefer a dark room. But I love to perform, and I don't really see myself doing any television at all.

  Ron White

  Dark, Light, Television

  Source: www.collegehumor.com

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• I don't like being in the UK for every other reason aside from the show. It's aesthetically uncomfortable to me on almost every level for reasons that might sound petty but I can't get past. The audiences are far more challenging and while I wouldn't say I prefer it, I certainly need it to ward off my inherent laziness.

  Doug Stanhope

  Past, Challenges, Levels

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• One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can make them sufficiently uncomfortable, they frequently respond by doing what you need them to do in the spirit of setting people free or ceasing arrests.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Negative, Needs

  Source: lareviewofbooks.org

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• A good leader has a plan that consists of changing simple pictures. Just because a group of people has a bunch of boards, hammers, and nails does not mean that they are building a house or even anything recognizable. Sometimes leaders think they are doing their job just because there is a lot of hammering going on. As a society we like the sound of hammering, but we are uncomfortable with the sound of thinking, which is silence.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Leadership, Jobs, Mean

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn't care, because it was all about them.

  Jess C Scott

  Pain, Self, Identity

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• I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.

  Alicia Keys

  Dream, Ifs

  "Alicia Keys Talks Failure, The Anatomy Of A ‘Girl On Fire’ For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview With Kiki Von Glinow, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2012.

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• All on-set kisses are weird, no matter who it is, especially with people standing around coughing and sneezing. It's very uncomfortable!

  Bella Heathcote

  Kissing, People, Sneezing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.

  Mara Wilson

  Feelings, Flattering, Stills

  "7 Reasons Child Stars Go Crazy (An Insider's Perspective)" by Mara Wilson, www.cracked.com. May 28, 2013.

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• I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

  Chaz Bono

  Whole Life, Whole, Felt

  "From Chastity to Chaz: Sonny and Cher's Child On His Sex-Change Operation". Interview with Andrea Sachs, content.time.com. May 09, 2011.

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• Certainly not everybody that is different is necessarily autistic, but there are a lot of undiagnosed people and it’s not necessarily something that needs to have attention to it, unless that person is feeling uncomfortable in the world or they need extra help or something.

  Jasika Nicole

  Extra Help, People, Feelings

  "HitFix Interview: Jasika Nicole talks ‘Fringe’". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. October 14, 2010.

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• martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.

  Susan Moody

  Sacrifice, People, Martyr

  Susan Moody (1992). “Mosaic”, G K Hall & Company

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• People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.

  Katie Chang

  People, Scary, Attention

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• I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

  Raymond Burr

  Years, Sea, San Francisco

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• I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.

  Roger Federer

  Children, Fun, Player

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• I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

  Mitchell Baker

  People, Want, Benefits

  "Getting There: Mozilla Foundation's Mitchell Baker". Interview with Erin Mershon, www.politico.com. October 1, 2014.

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• Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

  Tony Judt

  Responsibility, Past, Self Questioning

  Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.114, Penguin

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• In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.

  Francis Chan

  Reality, Earning It, Forgiving

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• Change is uncomfortable. Write that down.

  Justin Bieber

  Writing

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• In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually about 4 a.m. His suave young men, always commuting between Princeton and The Plaza in Stutz Bearcats never sat still for long. It was too uncomfortable, with a large flask in the hip pocket.

  Richard Armour

  Art, Men, Long

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• What's more interesting are the dynamics between people that involve hypocrisy or ignoring each other. That's what I want to write about. I like to make people uncomfortable because it's something we should be uncomfortable about.

  George Pelecanos

  Writing, People, Interesting

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• I really realized how much happier I am when I'm doing projects that I'm chosen to do, and on the flip side, how much unhappier I am on projects that make me feel uncomfortable.

  Jonathan Tucker

  Flip, Sides, Projects

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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