Embarrassed Quotes - Page 18

• Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what?" "I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people o die embarrassed.

  William Goldman

  Hate, People, Looks

  William Goldman (1995). “William Goldman: Four Screenplays with Essays”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

  Anne Lamott

  Grateful, Thinking, Light

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• Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor--which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that simple little prayer, sacred to the white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Girl, Prayer, Sleep

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.49, Xist Publishing

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• There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Money, Riches, Way

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• I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Generations, Shapes

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.

  James Taylor

  Beautiful, Memories, Grandmother

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

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• It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

  Tom Stoppard

  Sometimes

  "Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue'". Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2010.

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• I dropped my juggling balls and my face grew embarrassed. It wasn't until then that I looked around the circus of life and noted all were too consumed on their own juggling act to see. This is when I learned to have fun, and kick the balls instead.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Fun, Deep Thought, Balls

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• The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.

  Kevin Drum

  Media, Mouths, Should

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• I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, Okay, I'm white trash.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Phones, White, Numbers

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• Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer.

  Abby Wambach

  Soccer, Player, Want

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• I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.

  Noel Gallagher

  Voice, People, Musician

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• Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Success, Business

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• I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

  Shirley Manson

  Mother, Dad, Hippie

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• What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.

  Mindy Kaling

  Romantic, Writing, Past

  "Flick Chicks" by Mindy Kaling, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2011.

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• The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

  Jay-Z

  Feelings, Needs, Poverty

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• I really believe it's time for some of us to stop apologizing for God and start apologizing to Him for being embarrassed by the ways He has chosen to reveal Himself

  Francis Chan

  Believe, Way, Apologizing

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.321, David C Cook

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• I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.

  Penn Jillette

  Skills, Television, Littles

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

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• When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Giving Up

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• I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.

  Shania Twain

  Who I Am, Ashamed

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

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• Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

  Steve Vai

  Acting, Feels, Unreal

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

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• I know at one point I had bright red hair and I had bracelets from my wrist up to my elbow and I was wearing size 50 pants. I wouldn't wear that today, but I'm not embarrassed about wearing it back then any more.

  Mike Shinoda

  Hair, Elbows, Red

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• I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

  George Sanders

  Communication, Annoyed, Language

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• I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.

  John Wayne

  Daughter, Mother, Men

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.51, Taylor Trade Publications

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