Linda Sanchez

For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

American Politician

Glennon Doyle Melton

When we shrug and say we don't care, it's usually a lie. Every girl cares. We've just been taught not to expose ourselves by showing it. What the world needs now is girls and women who aren't afraid to care - who are done saying, 'Whatever.

American Author

Phil Daniels

In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers... actors are sensitive; you think of all the work you've done, and it breaks your heart, but you learn to shrug it off and to carry on.

English Actor

Jonathan Davis

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

American Musician

Phillip Noyce

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.

Australian Director

John Burnside

A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.

Scottish Writer

Lech Walesa

People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.

Polish Politician

Alun Wyn Jones

If I make a mistake, I just shrug it off and carry on.

Welsh Athlete

Vince Lombardi

If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.

American Coach

Steve Bannon

American Public Servant

Shrug as a verb often suggests a lack of commitment or certainty.

Non-committal

It may express indifference when someone doesn't have a strong opinion.

Indifference

Using 'shrug off' can sometimes seem impolite or dismissive.

Impolite Dismissal

As a noun, 'shrug' describes the visual action more than the verb does.

Visual Gesture

A shrug can transmit complex emotions, like apathy or reluctance, visually.

Conveys Emotions

Sometimes, a shrug happens spontaneously, without thinking.

Involuntary Reaction

 We tell very convincing stories, we slightly shrug our shoulders. We commit terrible crimes, and we smile at the delight in getting away with it. Now, that smile is known in the trade as "duping delight." And we're going to see that in several videos moving forward, but we're going to start -- for those of you who don't know him,

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 produce the highest volume of deceptive tells why do they do that well we all do the same thing we rehearse our words but we rarely rehearse our gestures we say yes we shake our heads no we tell very convincing stories we slightly shrug our shoulders we commit terrible crimes and we smile at the delight in getting away

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 If these alien astronomers had looked in our direction in the last century, they would have been really excited to detect unequivocal signs of technology. But what if they looked ten thousand years ago, before we showed signs of civilization? Would they shrug in disappointment and go look elsewhere for life?

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 headed back into the library. I shrugged and followed them. Back inside, I asked my classmates if they were having the same experience of words jumping around our cases as I was. 'I think someone's infiltrated my copies of the cases,' I said. 'We've got to case the joint.

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 the cubs he kind of glanced sideways at them shrugged his shoulders and said i've never seen them before once a cheetah cub has been taken from its mother it can never survive in the wild again because it never learned to hunt and so it'll have to spend the rest of

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 Or it's why maybe we shrug their shoulders at the problems of those who look different or live different or love different than we do. It's why we almost certainly aren't doing enough to protect our kids and grandkids from climate change.

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 to make really quite horrible threats and so forth. You seem to do a good job sort of shrugging this off, but really, like, who else has ever been in this position? How are you managing this? What on earth world are we in

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 We're a free society, so we let pornography and all these things -- we shrug them off. They're like a mild cold. They're not a big deal for us. But we should recognize that for many people in the world,

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 diversity is not uniformity its oppression the opposite of Justice is not injustice its tyranny but humans you and I we tend to normalize the unthinkable and shrug at the side of it

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 when I met him, he was this white-haired gentleman, I said to him, "Why did you do it? Why did you take that risk?" And he looked at me and he shrugged,

Shrug

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