#sham

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#figure #fraudulent #i #i think #keep

I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position. ↗

— Chris Daughtry

#fortunate #i #millions #position #records

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#ashamed #author #belief #boundaries #critics

Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views. ↗

— Evan Davis

#attraction #awkward #clash #conflicting #embarrassment

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#crutch #go #need #noses #numbers

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. ↗

— Tom Waits

#friends #pain #real #real friends #real pain

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#been #get #great #him #human

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#cure #everyone #faults #fear #his

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#ashamed #bit #i

It's a shame anyone had to lose that. What a great rivalry. ↗

— Mike Tice

#great #had #lose #rivalry #shame