Moon Unit Zappa Quotes

We can look at the pain in our lives. We can look at the way we have been mistreated, and we can have an attitude of, I will never amount to anything. I have been wrong about people all my life. I am going to pay somebody back for this.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever.

I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

There have been few more potent motivating factors in history than humiliation and the desire to overcome it.

In life, when what has happened happens to you, you don't digest it.

It's kind of an embarrassing story - that's why it's called 'The Idiot.' But looking back at your past self, you see that this person had reasons for everything she did. There's a whole lot of awkwardness, but really, what should one be embarrassed about?

There's something about taking emotional and career and relationship humiliations, writing them, acting them out again, but then redeeming them in some way.

So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.

Did you just tell that man you went potty on yourself?" "You. Shut. Up,"I hissed back furiously and chucked the scrubs at his head. "Hurry up before they find out I didn't wet myself. You seriously owe me.

I'm not going to waste my energy looking into the eyes of someone like the guy who blew my legs off trying to find a way to forgive him for doing something that horrible when there are way more productive ways I could be spending my life. You've got to focus on moving on.

I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why.

I'm not much of a revenge person, because I think when you start with revenge it cheapens what you've been through.

It's so damned humiliating.

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.

Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.