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• God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought I’d be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?" Lace looked at me sidelong. "You were where?" I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. "I, uh, hadn’t been in the city...very long. I didn’t know.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Mean, Beer, Gay

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.175, Penguin

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• We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.

  Jimmy Carter

  Horse, Past, Night

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• There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

  Tom Waits

  Fall, Important, Trying

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• People you knew when you were teenagers, the ones who saw your stupidest haircut and the most embarrassing things you've done in your life, and they still cared about you after all that: they're not replaceable, you know?

  Tana French

  Teenager, People, Done

  Tana French (2012). “Broken Harbour: Dublin Murder Squad: 4. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book of the Year”, p.287, Hachette UK

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• It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.

  John Green

  Morning, Eggs, Accepting

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.85, Penguin

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• Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

  Kate Morton

  Children, Past, Parent

  Kate Morton (2013). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• She reached out and touched the king’s face, cupping his cheek in her hand. “Just a nightmare,” he said, his voice still rough. The queen’s voice was cool. “How embarrassing,” she said, looking at his maimed arm. The king looked up then, and followed her gaze. If it was embarrassing to wake like a child screaming from a nightmare, how much more embarrassing to be the reason your husband woke screaming. A quick smile visited the king’s face. “Ouch,” he said, referring to more than the pain in his side. “Ouch,” he said again as the queen gathered him into her arms.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Queens, Children

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• Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

  Paula Danziger

  Silly, Writing, People

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• Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line of constant progress. Including ideas would make history contingent: things could go either way, and have on occasion. The 'right' people, armed with the 'right' ideas, have not always won. When they didn't, the authors would be in the embarrassing position of having to disapprove of an outcome in the past. Including ideas would introduce uncertainty. This is not textbook style.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Ideas, People

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.203, The New Press

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• There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Book, Offering, Advice

  Ellen DeGeneres (2003). “The Funny Thing Is...”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Stalkers lips curled into a sneer. "You won't make a move without him, huh? That's embarrassing." "No," I said softly. "It just hurts because you wish it was you.

  Ann Aguirre

  Hurt, Moving, Wish

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.122, Macmillan

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• I kind of missed the whole running into each other thing. Provided a lot of excitement." "I don't miss that," I admitted, bending over and rummaging through my bag for my notebook. "That was really embarrassing." "It shouldn't have been." "Easy for you to say. You're the one who got plowed. I was doing the plowing." Cam's mouth opened. Oh my God, did I really just say that? I had.

  J. Lynn

  Notebook, Running, Missing

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• The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.

  Dan Simmons

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Drood”, p.755, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Sometimes

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

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• I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.

  Diane Arbus

  Believe, Mean, Littles

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• Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.

  Jim Rome

  Soccer, Car, Acting

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• Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary recruits into the Union army. But this did not last. Northerners may have disapproved of slavery in the South but, once the bloodletting began in earnest, their willingness to die for that conviction began to wane. [...] Lincoln faced the embarrassing reality that he soon would have no army to carry on the crusade.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Moving, Army

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• Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every form-it was about advocating kids to not wait to be told what to do, but make life up for themselves, it was about trying to get people to use their imaginations again, it was about not being perfect, it was about saying it was ok to be amateurish and funny, that real creativity came out of making a mess, it was about working with what you got in front of you and turning everything embarrassing, awful, and stupid in your life to your advantage.

  Legs McNeil

  Real, Stupid, Creativity

  Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain (2006). “Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk”, p.334, Grove Press

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• I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.

  Steve Carell

  Dad, Growing Up, Kids

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• I love dressing up and doing the red carpet every once in a while, but I am very much a jeans kinda girl, so it's all a little embarrassing for me.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Girl, Jeans, Dressing Up

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• It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

  Daniel Craig

  Sex, Nice, Mean

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• I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Struggle, Meltdowns, Shameful

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• I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

  Park Chan-wook

  Believe, Fake, Watches

  "Exclusive: I'm A Cyborg Q&A". Interview With Leigh Singer, www.ign.com. April 4, 2008.

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• Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Thinking, People

  Ray Dalio (2017). “Principles: Life and Work”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.

  Norihiro Yagi

  Struggle, Needs, May

  "Claymore". Manga by Norihiro Yagi, 2001-2014.

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