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Shame Quotes


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


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


"Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself."


"Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value."


"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."


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


"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?"


"We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough."
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