quotes about Ashamed
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Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide.
-- Aaron NevilleSource : Song: Tell It Like It is, Album: The Very Best of Aaron Neville, 2006
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I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.
-- Alicia Keys -
I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie
-- America FerreraSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
-- Andrei Platonov -
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
-- Anne Lamott -
'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh how I strove the rest to have believed; Ashamed and angry to be undeceived!
-- Aphra Behn -
A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!
-- Arno Hintjens -
Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
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I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.
-- Ben FountainSource : "Interview with Ben Fountain, Author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.
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Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
-- Brian Eno -
It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.
-- Bryce CourtenaySource : Bryce Courtenay (2011). “The Power of One”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com
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Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.
-- Carlos Mencia -
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I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.
-- Carrie FisherSource : "PrimeTime" with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com.
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In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.
-- Cat Deeley -
I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.
-- Chris Daughtry -
I'm not ashamed to say that I really loved some of the hair metal bands of the '80s.
-- Chris McCaughan -
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I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.
-- Christine McVie -
I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!
-- Cindy Sheehan -
If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.
-- Confucius -
It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of.
-- Deb Caletti -
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I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.
-- Ed McBain -
Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.
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I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall.
-- Elle Macpherson -
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It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.
-- Emily BluntSource : "Stars Spotlight Personal Triumphs Over Stuttering" by Alan Mozes, abcnews.go.com. June 16, 2009.
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There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.
-- Erich Fromm -
Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.
-- Ernst Wilhelm von Brucke -
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I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
-- Fanny Burney -
They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Don't be ashamed to learn from others.
-- Girolamo Savonarola -
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The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.
-- Horace -
Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
-- Hosea Ballou -
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Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.
-- Isaac Asimov -
If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
-- J. C. RyleSource : J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.326, Letcetera Publishing
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Whatever others around you think, don't you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
-- J. C. RyleSource : J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com
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What? I'm not ashamed to admit that random things remind me of Harry Potter.
-- J. Lynn -
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
-- Jack London -
Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.
-- Jaimie AlexanderSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused, and didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything…if I felt that I belonged someplace, you know then…
-- James DeanSource : "Fictional character: Jim Stark". "Rebel Without a Cause", www.imdb.com. October 26, 1955.
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I mostly get takeout, I have to admit - I don't know if that's something to be ashamed of. I'm not much of a cook.
-- Janeane Garofalo -
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I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?
-- Janet Fitch -
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
-- Jean-Jacques RousseauSource : Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education”, Рипол Классик
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We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?
-- Jenna BlumSource : Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.430, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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People shouldn’t be ashamed of their bodies...especially women.
-- Jenna Dewan -
When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?
-- Jim Butcher -
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
-- Jodie Foster -
You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.
-- Joel Osteen -
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I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.
-- John Stossel -
Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten
-- John WyndhamSource : John Wyndham (2010). “The Chrysalids”, p.89, Penguin UK
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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
-- Julian Casablancas -
I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.
-- Justin Timberlake -
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I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!
-- Karl Lagerfeld -
I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.
-- Kathryn LaskySource : Kathryn Lasky (2016). “The Journey (Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book 2)”, p.22, HarperCollins UK
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I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.
-- Khloe KardashianSource : "Khloe Kardashian On How She Plans To Spend Valentine’s Day With Lamar Odom". Interview with Sarah St. Lifer, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.
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I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas -
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Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.
-- Laini Taylor -
Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.
-- Larry NivenSource : Larry Niven (1984). “Niven's Laws”, Owlswick Press
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Love is too precious to be ashamed of.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
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As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
-- LivySource : "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 4,
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I will only make pictures that I won't be ashamed to have my children see.
-- Louis B. MayerSource : "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". 2001 edition,
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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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Never be ashamed of passion. If you are strongly sexed, you are richly endowed.
-- Margaret Sanger -
Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.
-- Marguerite de NavarreSource : "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Sixth Day, Novel LX (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.
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I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
-- Marianne Faithfull -
I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.
-- Martin McGuinness -
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There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.
-- Mike Figgis -
But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
-- Minnie Driver -
For reasons that I don't fully understand, Twitter is a place where I don't feel ashamed to say my most shameful thoughts.
-- Mira Gonzalez -
I often tweet things that I would feel too horrified/embarrassed/ashamed to say to a friend or loved one, even though most of my friends and loved ones read my Twitter account.
-- Mira GonzalezSource : Source: logger.believermag.com
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
-- Naomi Judd -
There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it
-- Naomi Watts -
If you feel guilty or quietly ashamed, seek the power of the Atonement.
-- Neill F. Marriott -
What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.
-- Nizar QabbaniSource : Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
-- Oliver North -
I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.
-- Patsy KellySource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.
-- Peter the Great -
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It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.
-- Philip Jose Farmer -
Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?
-- Pietro Aretino -
To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
-- Ralph Ellison -
It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
-- Raymond CarverSource : Raymond Carver (2015). “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”, p.116, Vintage
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself.
-- Robert Preston -
You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.
-- Robert ThurmanSource : FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Apr 06, 2017
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What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
-- Robin G. Collingwood -
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
-- Seneca the Elder -
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.
-- Stephen King -
It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.
-- Sue Johanson -
Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.
-- Susana MartinezSource : "Susana Martinez RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.
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Colin stared at the officer. “Thorne, you scare me. I’m not ashamed to say it.
-- Tessa Dare -
The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about.
-- Thanissaro Bhikkhu -
I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies
-- Tommy Kirk -
People are really hesitant about expressing that they don't know something - but what's the big deal? I'm not ashamed about that at all.
-- Tracy McGrady -