Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 33

• I certainly do believe that a lot of comedy comes from awkwardness and embarrassment - pointing out the ways things are uncomfortable. Definitely the stuff that interests me. I don't necessarily think that comedy comes from a dark place, like you have to be a strung-out heroin addict. But I don't think it comes from happiness, that's for sure. It comes from frustration and suppressed rage, and wishing the world were different.

  Christian Finnegan

  Happiness, Believe, Dark

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. June 17, 2009.

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• I'm definitely not comfortable in a Speedo! That's as uncomfortable as it gets!

  Adam Rodriguez

  Speedos, Comfortable

  "10 Fun Icebreakers With Magic Mike and Reckless Stud Adam Rodriguez (FYI: Shirtless Pics Included)" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. August 14, 2014.

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• There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have mastered the art of being truly uncomfortable while facing up to culture.

  Sheridan Morley

  Art, Drama, Passion

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• [Photography] is the non-complacence of the eye. To practice my right to look is also a critical attitude. If I stare at you, I will make you uncomfortable, and culturally we have a difficulty of staring and being stared at.

  Pedro Meyer

  Photography, Attitude, Eye

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• I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job.

  Eugene Richards

  Hurt, Jobs, Grieving

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• When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.

  Richard Heinberg

  Real, Fate, Decline

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• Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.

  Freida Pinto

  Home, Media, Fans

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• My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like to be written about. If I've written a song about the family, they enjoy being mentioned in the songs. Nobody's confronted me and said 'don't write any songs about me.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Writing, Years

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• An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get great satisfaction in being a part of the proper - for me - community. I'm uncomfortable with various social groupings and clusterings. But when I'm in the right group, doing the right thing, I get as much satisfaction out of that as anyone who does it all the time.

  George Carlin

  Community, Groups, Doe

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• The photographer discovers himself/herself being photographed and we can guess he is uncomfortable. Unsuccessfully he/she tries to recompose his posture and to look like a photographer taking photos. But no, he is and continues to be a spectator. The momentous fact of being photographed leads him to becoming an actor. And, as always, actors must assume a role, which is only an elegant way of avoiding to say they must choose sides, choose a faction, take an option.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Trying, Roles, Looks

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• It's important to cultivate a tolerance and patience with uncomfortable feelings. It's best to feel them.

  Jewel

  Uncomfortable Feeling, Tolerance, Feelings

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily. And it is an anti-systemic experience that is not in some cases politicized, but in general results in a much more transgressive, much more uncomfortable music for the structures of power, than conscious rap or political rap.

  Bocafloja

  Rap, Gangsta, Political

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• I think in terms of the themes that I have worked on most is establishing questions of race in the context of Latin America. This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.

  Bocafloja

  Latin, Thinking, Race

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on.

  Johnny Cash

  Color, Black, Denim

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.

  Shane McCrae

  Thinking, Body, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What does interest me is how difficult my culture seems to find it to look the dark side of life directly in the eye. It seems to me that if we look back at mediaeval culture, for example, we see a society which faces the reality of death and pain and limitation, because it has to. Our society, which is progressive and technological and seems to have a slightly fanatical utopian edge to it, gets very uncomfortable when anybody highlights the dark side of humanity, or the world we have built, or what we are doing to the rest of life on Earth.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Pain, Eye, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies. You’re at the Aspen Ideas Fest, and you have these really smart, really accomplished people who pretend like they’ve somehow figured out a way to bypass the human condition. We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human.

  Moby

  Lonely, Smart, Ideas

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think that, for a lot of us, the closer we get to showing people who we really are, that's where we feel the most uncomfortable, the most vulnerable. But it's also where the healthiest growth comes from. Like when I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

  Moby

  Thinking, People, Growth

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I mean obviously we're all dealing with a lot more strangers due to the web. I'd say it has more to do with the quality of interactions. When you're physically interacting with someone, it forces you to be more present and probably a little more uncomfortable. You have to tolerate being outside the comfort of your own home.

  Miranda July

  Home, Mean, Quality

  Interview with Zack Ruskin, therumpus.net. April 18, 2012.

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• When I was young, we were quite strongly discouraged from listening to pop music. It was an uncomfortable thing, pop music; I think my parents felt threatened by it. They were always happy when they were listening to Mozart, so if your parents are happy, then you're happy.

  William Orbit

  Thinking, Parent, Listening

  Interview with Sarah Williams, www.femalefirst.co.uk. February 4, 2006.

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• I cannot fear to be wrong because I never think I'm wrong until I am proven wrong. In fact, I am uncomfortable unless I am capitalizing my experience.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Thinking, Facts, Proven Wrong

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• Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.

  Vera Brittain

  War, Men, Suffering

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• An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.

  Kalle Lasn

  Higher Ground, Numbers, People

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• Tight pants are just uncomfortable.

  Mark Twain

  Tight Pants, Pants

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• I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

  Luke Goss

  Men, Looks, Way

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2008.

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