"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."

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"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."

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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

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

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Shame, Action, Reason, Fool

"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

"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

Shame, War, Survival, Strength

"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

Shame, Truth, Regret, Happiness, Wisdom

"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

Shame, Blame, Behavior, Self

"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

Shame, Trouble, Want

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"Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time."

Time

"You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life."

Life

"We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers."

War

"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms."

Lie

"You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him."

Life

"I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it."

Music

"I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?"

Happiness

"Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right."

Time

"Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at."

People

"I hate show business."

Business