I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.
Maya Rudolph
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I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
Ben Hecht
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I have no better way of judging guilt or innocence than anyone else.
Robert Shapiro
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I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.
John Shelby Spong
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Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.
Steven Weber
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I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
Maggie Grace
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You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.
Roger McGough
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
Hans Frank
GuiltWillYearsPassThousand
I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund.
Romesh Wadhwani
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You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.
Eddie Vedder
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The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.
Michael Vick
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I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot, but I don't feel as though I am a bad person.
Louis Theroux
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Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.
Dennis Miller
GoodGodTimeGuiltYouKnow
It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.
Christopher Meloni
GreatBestLookingRestaurantGuilt
I'm just going to say it: I'm pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it's about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we've done - or failed to do - with our personal values.
Brene Brown
GoodBehaviorGuiltValuesPersonal
I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.
Alison Goldfrapp
GuiltPleasuresAboutAny
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Susan Sontag
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Can we text twice as much while driving, without the guilt? Yes, we can, if only cars will drive themselves.
Sebastian Thrun
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Pollution is everywhere, in that ancient Greek sense of miasma: guilt experienced as abject body fluid, moral pollution defining what kinds of beings count in social space.
Timothy Morton
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But I don't believe in guilt by association.
Marion Jones
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I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
Kevin Kline
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