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• I am not insane," he said. "A woman of your highly advanced intellect ought to be able to perceive that I am in love. With you. I wish you had told me. It was deuced embarrassing to find it out from your *brother*.

  Loretta Chase

  Brother, Love You, Wish

  Loretta Chase (2005). “Mr. Impossible”, p.363, Penguin

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• Annabeth Thalia and I hadn't seen each other in months but between the blizzard and the thought of what we were about to do we were too nervous to talk much. Except for my mom. She talks more when she's nervous. By the time we finally got to Westover Hall it was getting dark and she'd told Annabeth and Thalia every embarrassing baby story there was to tell about me.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Baby, Dark

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• I think-I need to ask an embarrassing question. Do you think I could borrow a pair of scrubs? I-uh-my pants-" "Oh!" Cried the poor nurse. "Yes. Absolutely. I'll be right back." [...] "Thanks," I mumbled. "I'll just change here. He's not looking at anything at the moment." I gestured toward Sam, who was looking convincingly sedated. The nurse vanished through the curtains. Sam eye's flashed open again, distinctly amused. He whispered, "Did you just tell that man you went potty on yourself?" "You.Shut.UP." I hissed back furiously.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.

  David Brooks

  Stupid, Views, Should Have

  "Shields and Brooks on Hagel’s Rough Hearing, Movement on Immigration". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2013.

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• Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Unhappy, Lawyer, Knots

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• I have big feet. Do you know how embarrassing it is when you ask for a shoe and they look at you like, "No, we don't make these heels for Bigfoot, sorry."

  Margot Robbie

  Sorry, Shoes, Feet

  "Margot Robbie Is Fascinated by Dating Apps". Interview with ELLE, www.elle.com. September 19, 2016.

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• The SOAP stack is generally regarded as an embarrassing failure these days.

  Tim Bray

  Soap, These Days

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• I find the whole concept of being 'SEXY' embarrassing and confusing. If I do an interview with photographs people desperately want to change me- dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini skirt, BUT THATS NOT ME. I feel uncomfortable. I'd never go out in a mini skirt. Personally, I don't actually think it's even that sexy. Whats sexy about saying, 'I'm here with my boobs out and a short skirt, have a look at everything I've got?' My idea of sexy is that less is more. The LESS you reveal the MORE people can wonder.

  Emma Watson

  Sexy, Thinking, Hair

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• The theater itself is so archaic and old fashioned, that it doesn't really matter to me whether it's on Avenue D or at the Helen Hayes Theater. What's the difference? It's still a very nostalgic form. Also, it means you're knowingly walking into a room where there's actors. I feel it's very embarrassing. Because, you know, they're right there. You always think like, they can see you, and I think it's mortifying, frankly, and I hate to sit near the front, where you feel they actually might see you. It's too ... it's too live.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

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• To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.

  John Ashcroft

  Quitting, Knocked Down

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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• I don't know what's more embarrassing in this country, that Michael Phelps fell from the graces for smoking marijuana or that you looked up to a swimmer in the first place?

  Daniel Tosh

  Country, Marijuana, Smoking

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• There was an embarrassing moment in the White House earlier today. They were looking around while searching for George Bush's military records. They actually found some old Al Gore ballots.

  David Letterman

  Military, White, House

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• I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what we are taught rather than to form our own goals and to figure out how to achieve them. We are fed with facts and tested and those who make the fewest mistakes are considered to be the smart ones, so we learn that it is embarrassing to not know and to make mistakes. Our education system spends virtually no time on how to learn from mistakes, yet this is critical to real learning.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Mistake, Smart

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• So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently, because it would be highly embarrassing if I said, “Good evening Yaleites” or “Yalers”, or whatever you guys are called, and got stuck at Yaaaaa…. That wouldn’t make for much of a speech.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Yale, Guy, Speech

  "SHAHRUKH KHAN's speech at Yale: Don't take no s**t from anybody!". www.bollywoodlife.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.

  Tommy Bolin

  Moving, Moments, Embarrassing Moment

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• The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the social sciences are mere pathways which lead through a riotous forest of individual trees, each a species unto itself. The social scientist who loses this sense of the essential individuality and uniqueness of each case is all too likely to make a solemn scientific ass of himself, especially if he thinks that his faceless generalizations are the equivalents of the rich vareity of the world.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Thinking, Tree, Individuality

  "Evidences for an Administrative Science: A review of the Administrative Science Quarterly, volumes 1 and 2". Administrative Science Quarterly. Volume 3, No. 1, p. 14, 1958.

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• My most embarrassing moment was probably when I was on tour and I would throw the mic out of my hand and catch it but one time I dropped it and I felt so stupid. My most exhilarating moment is every time I step on stage to perform.

  Shawn Desman

  Stupid, Hands, Steps

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• China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.

  Chris Christie

  Government, People, Chinese

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate". cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• All my legitimate jobs were embarrassing. I used to be stock boy at an Odd-Lot, making $35 a day.

  Method Man

  Jobs, Boys, Odd

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• Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Silly, Animal

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