Embarrassing Quotes - Page 17

• Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it-that's how liars are.

  Chris Chelios

  Liars, Believe, Nhl

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• The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both want peace; if one of them insists on using force to oblige the other to work for him and serve him, then the other, if he wishes to retain his dignity as a man and not be reduced to abject slavery, will be obliged in spite of his love of peace, to resist force with adequate means.

  Errico Malatesta

  Mean, Men, Two

  "Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta".

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• Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Love Is, Cherish, Platonic Love

  Mikhail Lermontov (2015). “A Hero of Our Time”, p.103, Xist Publishing

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• I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art... that people actually paid for it... I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money.

  Wade Guyton

  Money, Art, New York

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• The creepy stuff was that I have had sex with women who worked for me on this show. Now, my response to that is yes I have. I have had sex with women who worked on this show. Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would, especially for the women.

  David Letterman

  Sex, Creepy, Stuff

  "The Situation Room", www.cnn.com. October 2, 2009.

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• Even when I was really young, I hated doing commercials, because I would say, "That's not real acting." And it's not. It's embarrassing what they make little kids do in commercials.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Real, Kids, Acting

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• I was collecting Barbies. I know... embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I've collected two things.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Two, Ebay, Vintage

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest, the goofiest, the strangest and most eccentric and at the same time, most representative, most universal... That was something I earned from Kerouac, which was that spontaneous writing could be embarrassing... The cure for that is to write the thing down which you will not publish and which you won't show people. To write secretly... so you can actually be free to say anything you want.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Writing, Interesting, People

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• What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

  Marsha Norman

  Heaven, Body, These Days

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• Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Messages

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• Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Lying, Embarrassment, Caught

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• My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

  Jane Campion

  Keys, Musical, Emotion

  "How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano". Interview with Anna Tims, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2012.

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• When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

  Anchee Min

  Struggle, Chinese, Together

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• For me any moment in front of a crowd is embarrassing, because I can't stand being in front of people. I'm probably one of the worst public speakers. I try to avoid it, but there are times when it's just too rude not to do it. But there really isn't a moment that's not embarrassing for me if I'm going to stand up in front of a crowd.

  Christian Bale

  People, Rude, Trying

  "Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale". Interview, www.shortlist.com.

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• It's embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I'm glad I did.

  Drew Barrymore

  People, Love And Respect, Rebellious

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• University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.

  Kate Cruise O'Brien

  Death, University Students, Able

  Kate Cruise O'Brien (1980). “A gift horse, and other stories”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.

  Santha Rama Rau

  Weather, Silence, India

  Santha Rama Rau (1945). “Home to India”

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• Where's my tax form? Where's the file that's supposed to hold my W-2 form and interest statement? Where's the mileage log I specifically asked be kept last year?? Where's the monthly check summary? And who's been stuffing Visa receipts in the aluminum foil drawer??!! How embarrassing. I'm surrounded by idiots and I'm the only one in the office.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Years, Office, Aluminum Foil

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• I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I wrote when I was mad at my father, or photos I took where I smeared period blood on myself. It's embarrassing.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Father, Blood, Mad

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I know all about love that's too big to stay in a tiny bucket. Splashing out all over the place in the most embarrassing way possible.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Buckets, Way, Tiny

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.279, Pan Macmillan

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• You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Thinking, June, Wrong Love

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• To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.

  Cam Gigandet

  Letting Go, Not Good Enough, World

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• I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.

  Marty Feldman

  Wish, Jokes, Knows

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

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• I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?

  Juliana Hatfield

  Years, Should, Should I

  "A heart that hurts is a heart that works. I will beat my anorexia" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2008.

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• Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Age, Action, Blind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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