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I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.
Jim Carrey

Mean, Strange, Year

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Reason, Aware, Liberalism

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Between, Vision, Expression

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
Theodor Adorno

Time, Waiting, Tomorrow

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
David Herbert Lawrence

Religion, Together, Seems

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.
Shannen Doherty

Flirt, Guy, Truly

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
Janice Dickinson

Sad, Lonely, Fashion

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
Jeanne Moreau

Age, Shows, Frightened

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.
Neale Donald Walsch

Someone, Win, Else

My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
Gabrielle Union

Mom, She, Sweet

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
Robert Crumb

Famous, Revenge, Felt

I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.
Sloane Crosley

Time, Reading, Shoes

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
Rick Springfield

Life, Why, Write

I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
Nathan Fillion

School, Sick, Said

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing, Guys, Bigger

In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, it was alarming - I'd suddenly be very articulate.
Andrew Bird

School, Book, Give

I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.
Kathy Ireland

Love, Sports, Goal

I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!
Brad Paisley

Life, Movies, Fun

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
Anna Lindh

Politics, Made, Makes

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
Albrecht Durer

Life, Family, Wife

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
William Greider

Learned, Flop, Version

Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.
Steven Rattner

Pretty, Else, Between

My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the dislocation are painfully concentrated and we can't ignore them.
Alexis Herman

Ignore, Understand, Labor

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
Patrick White

Life, Writing, Again

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.
Nigel Cole

Funny, Find, Comedy

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
Adam Hochschild

War, Made, Victory

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.
Lorraine Bracco

Everything, Down, Coming

I'm painfully middle class.
Valerie Harper

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