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• If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.

  Miles Davis

  Play, People, Might

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.

  Thomas Sowell

  Love, Sex, Four

  Thomas Sowell (1999). “Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor.

  Brian Kernighan

  Sorry, Learning, Mind

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• I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.

  Lily Allen

  School, Unhappy, Rehearsal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.

  Rob Delaney

  Talking, Wife, Would Be

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• An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the best of circumstances, the relationship is clear enough so that the mathematician can submit his or her reasoning to an informal checklist, passing from step to step with the easy confidence the steps are small enough so that he cannot be embarrassed nor she tripped up.

  David Berlinski

  Steps, Assuming, Enough

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• Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their attention. Neither should we hesitate to bring the simplest requests confidently to the Father.

  Richard J. Foster

  Children, Father, Parent

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss willingly and that our fall is cushioned by faith--faith that at the bottom we will be caught and taught and turned toward the light. I pray that we don't waste precious energy feeling ashamed of our mistakes, or embarrassed by our flaws. After years of teaching, I know only a few things for sure. One of them is this: We are chunks of dense matter that need to be cracked open. Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mistake, Teaching, Fall

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• For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am.

  Bill Hybels

  Relationship, Who I Am, Proud

  Bill Hybels (2009). “Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise”, p.23, InterVarsity Press

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• I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works for somebody. It's maybe somebody's favorite tune, and it's really hard to come down on that, even if I feel a little embarrassed for it. Because some songs are written like a commercial, and that can be a little strange.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Crafts, Littles

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Lying, Magic, Facts

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.

  Ann Brashares

  People, Way, Would Be

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.132, Penguin

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• Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.

  Korie Robertson

  Forgiveness, Hurt, People

  Korie Robertson, Chrys Howard (2014). “Faith Commander: Living Five Values from the Parables of Jesus”, p.17, Zondervan

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• I know many of the critics and I don't think of them as God-like figures. What can they do to hurt me? Sure, I might be slightly embarrassed for a day, but then you just go your own way.

  Elia Kazan

  Hurt, Thinking, Might

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fact that you see salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed or anything, is something you wouldn’t have seen 30 years ago, with people who grew up under a different system of government. They would have been far too embarrassed to open a book of cartoons or dirty pictures on a train. But that’s what we have now in Japan. We are a country of children.

  Hideaki Anno

  Country, Children, Dirty

  "Let’s Die Together". www.theatlantic.com. May, 2007.

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• Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?

  Yao Ming

  Embarrassing Questions, Hands, Editors

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• I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Littles, Scandal, Parody

  "Miley Cyrus photo Uproar: Heidi Montag, Lauren Conrad, Hilary Duff, Nick Cannon Weigh In" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. April 29, 2008.

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• When people say to me, 'You hate America,' I don't hate America. I love America. I am just embarrassed that it has been taken over by people like evangelicals, by people who do not believe in science and rationality. It is the 21st century. And I will tell you, my friend. The future does not belong to the evangelicals. The future does not belong to religion.

  Bill Maher

  Hate, Taken, Believe

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborought, www.nbcnews.com. February 16, 2005.

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• I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism—to admit that we don't know and to search—is all right. ... When I look at what I call the gift of life, I feel a gratitude which is in tune with some religious ideas of God. However, the moment I even speak of it, I am embarrassed that I may do something wrong to God in talking about God.

  Karl Popper

  Gratitude, Religious, Talking

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• We shouldn't even get paid for this game. I'm not trying to take anything away from the Bobcats, they played a heck of a game, but we feel like we are at another level. I felt like we were the expansion team tonight. I'm thoroughly embarrassed.

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Team, Games, Trying

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• One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Bible, Believe, Book

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.71, Bethany House

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• Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance.

  John Updike

  Christian, Miracle, Hours

  John Updike (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Knopf

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• Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

  Gavin Newsom

  Thought Provoking, Trying, Limits

  Twitter post from Jul 07, 2016

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• I'm in love with you, Kylie." He looked almost embarrassed by the admission. He jumped up, took one step away, then swung around and faced her again. "I don't expect you to say it back and I don't think this will change your mind about anything. But you deserved to know. And I needed to tell you because.....I've never felt this way before-for anyone.

  C.C. Hunter

  Love You, Thinking, Mind

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• I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Drink, Said

  "Police video: Reese Witherspoon in handcuffs" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. April 24, 2013.

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