“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”
Source: The Testament
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American lawyer, politician, and author 1955Related quotes
“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”
As quoted in Why Men Fall Out of Love : The Secrets They Don't Tell (2005) by Michael French, p. 142
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“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.”
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Shame is a soul eating emotion.”
Give War a Chance (1992)
a computer-generated Oliphaunt steps on Moore, crushing him
In a humorous sendup of Moore's previous acceptance speech for Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 Oscars. Moore himself delivered the lines in the opening act of the 2004 Oscars, while standing in front of a greenscreen which had the Battle of the Pelennor Fields scene from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King playing on it; a battle which was, itself, literally fictitious. (23 March 2004)
2004
Speech in http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020917-7.html Nashville, Tennessee, (September 17, 2002), in which the president confused a centuries-old proverb ("Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.")
2000s, 2002
“There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.”
Source: The Naming