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"I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human — I only love to be so."
"I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes."
"One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all."
"Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor."
"A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming."
"And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print."
"I am, and always will be, proud to be a Hackney girl."
"I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this."
"I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that."
"Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?"
"Pretty much everyone I know, no matter what size, is trying some system. Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.' Where does it end? You just have to say, 'It's pretty damn good. I am right here at the moment and I'm OK with it. I've got other things to think about.'"
"It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things."
"For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I'm Really Proud of My Country"
"I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films."
"Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it."
"As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts."
"Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!"
"You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud."
"I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted."
"I am proud of having drawn the first comic about a lesbian - and it didn't even occur to me that I was drawing a first. I just wanted to tell the story of my roommate."
