Peter the Great
Tsar
"It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself."
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Ashamed
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Kurt Cobain
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human."
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with."
James Dean
Actor
"If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?"
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it."
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"Don't be ashamed of who you are, embrace who you are."
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"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
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"And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine."
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"Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail."
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"If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like"
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"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them."
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"England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality."
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"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing."
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"What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself."
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"To hell with being ashamed of what you liked."
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"Don't be ashamed if you don't like what others pretend to love"
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"I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time"
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"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
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"Innocence is ashamed of nothing."
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"I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done."
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"A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds."
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"People are really hesitant about expressing that they don't know something - but what's the big deal? I'm not ashamed about that at all."
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"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."
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"I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it."
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"Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed."
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