Embarrassing Quotes - Page 10

• Yesterday Jerry Springer bowed out of the Ohio Senate race. He said, 'If I can't run the most embarrassing campaign in America, then I'm out of here.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Running, Race, Ohio

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• My mistakes do happen on a grand scale and very public level. They're humiliating, embarrassing. But if nothing bad happens to you, you'll just continue to act ridiculous.

  Christian Slater

  Mistake, Levels, Ridiculous

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• The most embarrassing one is that I had no idea - and please excuse me - that you guys call a condom a rubber. My version of a rubber is an eraser. I've done that - very loudly asked for a rubber and people have given me strange looks. That was embarrassing!

  Emma Watson

  Ideas, People, Guy

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• Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter." Nico didn't look convinced. In fact he looked like he was going to be sick. But he squared his shoulders and nodded. "You're right. I- I'm not afraid of a love god." Favonius beamed. "Excellent! Would you like a snack before you go?

  Rick Riordan

  Snacks, Sick, Jason

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• I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause

  David Cook

  Shy, Causes, Good Causes

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• So in addition to a feisty new Black Court partner in the war dance between the Council and the Vampire Courts, I also got angry lust bunny movies stars, deadly curses, and a thoroughly embarrassing job as my investigative cover. Oh, and bean curd pizza, which is just wrong. What a mess. I made a mental note: The next time I saw Thomas, I was going to punch him right in the nose.

  Jim Butcher

  Stars, Jobs, War

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• It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

  Ayn Rand

  Discovery, Venture, Opinion

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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• Mind your own Brazilian!" The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops. OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is not to overreact. Instead, keep your chin up and pretend nothing happened.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mistake, Mind, Mouths

  "I've Got Your Number: A Novel". Book by Sophie Kinsella, 2012.

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• I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.

  Jenny Lawson

  Important, Different, Incidents

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.233, Pan Macmillan

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• It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.

  Philip Pullman

  Doe, Impossible, Academic

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a whisky, making a fool of myself, getting aggressive, maudlin and drunkenly out of control. I have never found those states in others anything other than tiring, awkward, embarrassing and fantastically dull, but I am quite sure that people would cherish a view of me in that condition at least once in a while.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Views, People

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.223, The Overlook Press

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• It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons

  Jenny Holzer

  Stupid, Reason, Caught

  Jenny Holzer, Stefan Banz, Thomas Whitridge, Béatrix Ruf (2001). “Jenny Holzer: xenon”

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• When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.

  Nolan Ryan

  Horror Stories, Dyslexia, Frustrating

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• The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Confused, Able, Kind

  "Jean Baudrillard" by Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2007.

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• I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.

  Jimmy Page

  Simple, Play, People

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• You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Guy, Standing

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• I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Life Is, Time Passes, Feels

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• In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.

  John Green

  Gay, Thinking, Annoyed

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.60, A&C Black

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• Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River. Eve: I think it'd be embarrassing to be dead in the Hoochie-Coochie River. Roarke: Chattahoochee Eve: What's the difference? Roarke: Quite a bit, I'd think.

  Nora Roberts

  Men, Thinking, Rivers

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• For the record, surgeries aren't pretty. there's a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking in on a naked parent. Only there's more gore. Bits are exposed that just shouldn't be out in the open, and they're covered in blood. Its embarrassing, disgusting, and unsettling all at the same time." Harry Dresden, Turn Coat.

  Jim Butcher

  Blood, Parent, Naked

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• You are well aware of your effect on women, and I'm sure it gratifies you no end to watch them sigh and salivate over your magnificent physique. I do not wish to spoil your fun, Dain, but I do ask you to consider my pride and refrain from embarrassing me in public." Women...sighing and salivating...over his magnificent physique. Maybe the brutal bedding had destroyed a part of her brain.

  Loretta Chase

  Fun, Pride, Brain

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• The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Love Is, Humanity, Three

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.306, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Science, Sweaters, Space

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• When you're walking home at night, do you even get creeped out and even though it's silly and embarrassing you just want to run home?" It seemed too secret and personal to admit to virtual stranger, but I told her, "Yeah, totally." For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, "Run run run run run," and took off, pulling me behind her.

  John Green

  Running, Real, Silly

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.29, Penguin

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• Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

  Rick Riordan

  Relationship, People, Parent

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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