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• Today the Secretary of State said that of the 247 candidates, so far 115 of them have been certified. How embarrassing is that? Imagine if you were turned down because you didn't meet the high standards set by Larry Flynt and Gallagher.

  Jay Leno

  Standards Set, High Standards, Today

  "Hey, did you hear the one about the California recall election? Chads may have been hung in Florida, but the Golden State is keeping the nation's comics in funny business" by James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. August 28, 2003.

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• The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Lying, Thoughtful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.276, Modern Library

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• Music has always been a huge part of my life and when I was a kid I was always throwing myself into whatever I could music-related - even if it was a little embarrassing!

  Nicky Romero

  Kids, Littles, Throwing

  Interview with Aditya Seth, thebanginbeats.wordpress.com. August 28, 2014.

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• Nothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Father, Gentleman, Hopefully

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The things keeping you back-these embarrassing, boring, stupid obstacles-are the heart of what it is to be human. They’re the whole reason for making and needing art. So you might as well go ahead and begin in whatever way you can right now.

  Miranda July

  Art, Stupid, Might

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• How embarrassing it is to be human.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Humans

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• It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.

  Karen O

  Water, Adults, Spit

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• Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

  Victor Salva

  Movie, Summer, Kids

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• In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments.

  Jess Weixler

  Real, Stupid, People

  "Jess Weixler Is Comedy's Next Big Thing". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. March 28, 2013.

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• Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Self, Should Have

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.

  Jim Morrison

  Thinking, Phrases, Language

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• Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing.

  How to Dress Well

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Looks, Fabulous, Fierce

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• Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that rose to her face. She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her embarrassment. The knowledge that they were behaving as if they were sweethearts was even more embarrassing, and the knowledge that they were both embarrassed embarrassed them so much that Captain Samaritano noticed it with a tremor of compassion.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Compassion, Rose, Captains

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• There were sirens and the cops were there and they took me to the police station and I got arrested, it was really embarrassing. They actually just- they impeached me over the whole thing, they tried, well, they did impeach me, but I didn't have to actually stop being president, so it was okay. The police weren't actually that involved, it was mostly Congress.

  Hank Green

  Police, President, Sirens

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• The only time I feel pressured is when some woman's husband comes over and says, "Will you go ask my wife to dance? She's a great dancer and would just love to dance with you."Suddenly there's a crowd of people standing around us and they expect that they're about to see Fred and Ginger. Here the woman and I have just met, and these people think that it's showtime. That is the only time I think it is really embarrassing.

  Gene Kelly

  Husband, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Oh, my god!" I said, throwing my hands over my eyes and hurtling my body against the counter. "What?" "You're naked." "I'm not naked." "I'm blind." "You're not blind. I'm wearing pants." "Oh." That was embarrassing.

  Darynda Jones

  Eye, Hands, Naked

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.17, Macmillan

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• My experiences are universal. I'm not doing anything embarrassing  - to me what would be embarrassing is to talk about minutia. It would be embarrassing to get up there and not say anything.

  Mary Gauthier

  Say Anything, Would Be, Get Up

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• I don't feel like embarrassing Kurt by talking about what a psycho hosebeast his wife is, especially when he knows it already.

  Steve Albini

  Talking, Wife, Psycho

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• I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.

  Goenawan Mohamad

  Thinking, Mind, Blank

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• There was an embarrassing moment at a recent Democratic fundraiser. When John Kerry was handed a $10 million dollar check, he said, 'I do.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Dollars, Moments, Checks

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• I dont know if its embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.

  Tony Oller

  Girl, Christian, Knows

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• I'm not afraid to write about madness. I always figure that whatever most embarrasses you is something that everyone can relate to, really...because we're just not that different. So if you think, 'Oh my god, this is so embarrassing. I can't possibly talk about that,' and you write about it, the audience is gonna be like, 'that happened to me!

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

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• What about your crepe?" "Stuff It." "She's crazy about you," Mavis commented. "It's almost embarrassing, the way she fawns.

  Nora Roberts

  Crazy, Fawns, Stuff

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.538, Penguin

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• I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to have some sort of value. Or it only has some kind of value to me, if it's something really personal. It has to mean something to me. I guess it is a little uncomfortable, or it's a little embarrassing sometimes, to know that stuff that honest is out there. But, when I hand off the thing, when it's totally done and mastered and sent, I kinda feel like it doesn't belong to me anymore.

  Panda Bear

  Song, Mean, Writing

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