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"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Shame, Self, Family, Income

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"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."

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"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Shame, Emotion, Sensitivity, Pain

"She had wanted me to hold rape inside me like a dark pearl, keep it in there, as it grew, as I grew cramped, as it overtook me as hidden things do. Secrets become lies. I'd carried in every step I took this lie, the shame of it."

Aspen Matis, American Author

Shame, Secrets, Trauma, Truth

"Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame."

Marian McPartland, English Musician

"When you're ashamed of their action, to ask them the reason of their actions can make you a fool."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame."

Ronnie Spector, American Musician

"It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from."

Mark Lawrence, British Novelist

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"It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

Shame, Politics, Critique, Ideology, Cynicism

"I can see your dirtypillows."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it."

Joyce Meyer, American Author

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"That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move."

Robbie Coltrane, Scottish Actor

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Explore more quotes by George Bernard Shaw

"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."

"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."

"CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it's my business to tell other people the truth; but it's not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts."

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."

"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."

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