"I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by one and all"
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"I'm stupidly proud of myself."
"I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that."
"I hope you live a life you're proud of..."
"I am proud to call myself a Hindu, I am proud that I am one of your unworthy servants. I am proud that I am a countryman of yours, you the descendants of the sages, you the descendants of the most glorious Rishis the world ever saw. Therefore have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them."
"The moment you say, "We are proud. I'm proud to be this, and I'm proud to be that," what you're saying is we're almost as good as the others. "Almost" always means not quite."
"Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage."
"The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud."
"The proud man is forsaken of God."
"I feel sick if I have to do something for the money. I can't breathe. I'm not proud of myself."
"If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show."
"Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done."
"I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually."
"He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things."
"There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my Son though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that."
"I'm excited by any food that's prepared by someone who's proud of what they're doing, who puts a personal imprint on food."
"My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself."
"If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage."
"He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end."
"It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not."