Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 36

• Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer.  He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.

  Nat Hentoff

  Bob, Singers, Dylan

  Source: www.rutherford.org

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• I've created a very unconventional family. I have lovers who are three decades younger than me. This makes people very uncomfortable.

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Three, Unconventional

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I feel like everything I do makes people feel really uncomfortable.

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Feels

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• This film [Teknolust] in particular, showing the way in which having a sexual dialogue with someone can be something developing and changeable and maybe uncomfortable and complicated. Just complicated and human, no more and no less.

  Tilda Swinton

  Way, Film, Complicated

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.

  Jodi Kantor

  Real, Progress, Honest

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You see so many of these empowering songs where a woman saying, you know, I'm going to go out, I'm going to wear high heels, you know, short skirt or whatever. But the high heels are quite uncomfortable, and so how good about yourself are you really feeling walking out in high heels?

  Rachel Bloom

  Song, High Heels, Empowering

  "Rachel Bloom Upends Romantic Comedy Tropes On 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 17, 2017.

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• Every time I see niqabs, I feel very uncomfortable because it's the opposite of my idea of opened society.

  Jens Spahn

  Opposites, Ideas, Niqab

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I know, it's amazing, but I never feel like I have done anything. When people say that, it makes me uncomfortable because I'm not that kind of person. I just go out there and try to do my job.

  Mariano Rivera

  Jobs, People, Trying

  Interview With Richard Gere, gotham-magazine.com. May 3, 2012.

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• When I did my first solo show and it made my dad uncomfortable, I wasn't quite ready for my spotlight moment in my life yet. I didn't have enough sense of myself and self-esteem and confidence: this is when I started looking to get my master's in something.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Dad, Self Esteem, Firsts

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• I happen to live in reality. The name of my city is Literalville. And it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Reality, Cities, Names

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.

  Bruce Springsteen

  New York, Artist, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There are places I don't want to go. Making movies on tops of mountains, in the desert, playing scenes while icy torrents of rivers rush by. The jungle. It's very uncomfortable.

  Christopher Walken

  Rivers, Mountain, Desert

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because Conor McGregor is so confident - he goes there 'I'll beat this, I will do that' - If I would be his coach I will tell him all the time, behind closed doors, how dangerous [Nate] Diaz is and how much of a war this fight will be and how painful, and long, and uncomfortable it would be, and to get prepared for the worst day of his life.

  Georges St-Pierre

  War, Fighting, Doors

  "Interview: A sit-down with Georges St-Pierre in Israel". Interview with Ram Gilboa, www.bloodyelbow.com. August 10, 2016.

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• I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

  David Brooks

  Ideas, Judging, President

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There's more roles now to fill since Trump's in. There's this refusal of power. I think progressives are actually literally uncomfortable with the exercise of power, because of what you learn. When you're too educated you understand the total disconnect of the exercise of power.

  Cody Wilson

  Exercise, Thinking, Roles

  Source: motherboard.vice.com

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• Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to? Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.

  Al Pacino

  Opportunity, Play, Challenges

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• It's very uncomfortable to talk about race. It often devolves before it begins.

  Jordan Peele

  Race

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I wrote that [Donald] Trump piece, I had this uncomfortable experience of sensing a lot of things that were nascent, that I couldn't quite articulate. And one of them was this move toward anti-intellectualism. An anti-love move, even.

  George Saunders

  Moving, Pieces, Anti Love

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm an Ivy League-educated lawyer, so you'd think the world wouldn't mess with me, right? But I've been paid $10,000 less than a less qualified man in the same role. I've had men I've worked with grab my leg or rub my back in ways that have made me feel uncomfortable. I've been taken off projects because I was pregnant, even though my pregnancies have been both been healthy and didn't impact my work at all.

  Jane Park

  Pregnancy, Taken, Men

  Source: www.elle.com

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• With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Responsibility, Size, Existence

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.

  Adrienne Rich

  Gay, Talking, Use

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• The religious rightwingism is directly linked to globalization and to privatization. When India is talking about selling its entire power sector to foreign multinationals, when the political climate gets too hot and uncomfortable, the government will immediately start saying, should we build a Hindu temple on the site of the Babri mosque? Everyone will go baying off in that direction. It's a game.

  Arundhati Roy

  Religious, Government, Talking

  Source: progressive.org

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• Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel very uncomfortable if only black people were sent to jail for drug offenses. We seem comfortable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convicted of drug offenses in some states being African American, but if the figure was 100 percent, the veil of colorblindness would be lost.

  Michelle Alexander

  Jail, Race, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Like Summer Sisters comforted me just because I was like, okay things I've seen with my own eyes are not so terrible, and even though I knew adult gay people and had absolutely no issue with it. And I just couldn't articulate what made me so uncomfortable about the space that I shared with my friends becoming a sexual space. And it was very healing for me to read that, and feel like it was a part of other friendships, even fictional friendships I admire.

  Lena Dunham

  Summer, Eye, Healing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Women's orgasms will quadruple in intensity if she's in a beautiful, dimly lit room versus a brightly lit, uncomfortable room.

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Rooms, Intensity

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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