Hal Elrod Quotes
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
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I think my father had a certain degree of insecurity and need to achieve.
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I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.
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I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.
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If you’ve had to overcome an obstacle or insecurity or fear... genuinely you can bet on that person because they have gathered themselves and found through their inner strength, they have determination, they have grit.
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I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it's ignorance; it's no belief, no confidence, it's insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else.
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I always felt like my value was much more in my intellect than it was in my appearance, and so that's what I spent time cultivating. And some of that I get from my mother, some of that comes from the schools that I went to, and some of that comes from probably insecurity.
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The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.
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Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.
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When people are crass or loudmouthed, it's not because they don't give a damn. It's from fear and insecurity.
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Place and displacement have always been central for me. A type of insecurity goes with that: you are always following the cues, like learning the dance steps when the dance is already under way.
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Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.
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I am extremely proud to have the honour and privilege to be the Premier of this great state of Victoria.
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I never quite know if what I do will be understood.
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I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.
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Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
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Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you.
