"It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame."

Shame, Power, Control, Society

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"You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done."

Whoopi Goldberg, American Actress

Shame, Vote

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

Marian McPartland, English Musician

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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

Shame, Years

"I felt ashamed.""But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?""No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal.""But how could you help that?""Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Shame, Mortality, Appearance, Humanity

"I've found the best treasure... You."

Robin Bielman, American Novelist

Shame, Love, Connection, Treasure, Emotion

"O shame! Where is they blush?"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Shame, Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that."

Benjamin Alire Saenz, American Poet

Shame, Self-Awareness, Emotion, Growth

"Shame control us and our lives, it makes the choices we just state in spec and watch what's doing... as far as now it goes like a bot... auto!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Shame, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Today

"It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do."

Shannon Hale, American Author

Shame, Power, Judgment, Social, Conflict

"I can see your dirtypillows."

Stephen King, American Author

Shame, Truth, Regret, Happiness, Wisdom

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"That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like the disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions."

Identity

"Everyone I have lost in the closing of a doorthe click of the lockis not forgotten, theydo not die but remainwithin the soft edgesof the earth, the ashof house fires and cancerin sin and forgivenesshuddled under old blanketsdreaming their way intomy hands, my heartclosing tight like fists."

Grief

"My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks."

Family

"Everybody prayed, everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights."

Belief

"And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared."

Courage

"He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood."

Ignorance

"He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody."

Salvation

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"You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done."

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

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

"I felt ashamed.""But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?""No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal.""But how could you help that?""Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?"

"I've found the best treasure... You."

"O shame! Where is they blush?"

"I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that."

"Shame control us and our lives, it makes the choices we just state in spec and watch what's doing... as far as now it goes like a bot... auto!"

"It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do."

"I can see your dirtypillows."

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"My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures."

"The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more."

"He was my best friend and I needed him."

"Everyone I have lost in the closing of a doorthe click of the lockis not forgotten, theydo not die but remainwithin the soft edgesof the earth, the ashof house fires and cancerin sin and forgivenesshuddled under old blanketsdreaming their way intomy hands, my heartclosing tight like fists."

"My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks."

"Everybody prayed, everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights."

"And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared."

"He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood."

"He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody."