Embarrassing Quotes - Page 4

• There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

  A. Scott Berg

  Editors, Broken, Leap Of Faith

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• When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Deities, Looks, Might

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Mistake, Book, Names

  A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

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• It was so embarrassing, everytime I see it, I blush. Imagine if you saw yourselves like that. It's one thing to get dressed up and do the movie star thing, but I mean, it's my job to be outside of that and it's not like I'm on the outside when they're all watching me. [About the famous car wash scene from One Night at McCool's]

  Liv Tyler

  Movie, Jobs, Stars

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• I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing.

  Miranda Hart

  Denial, I Can

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• The thing about death is that it's embarrassing. No one wants to focus on it for very long. We're happy to talk about sex all day long but no one wants to talk about the moment where it all ends.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Sex, Long, Focus

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form's sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow.The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense

  George MacDonald

  War, Men, Past

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• One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them.

  Matt Taibbi

  Country, Way, Doe

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2008.

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• You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Years, Avoiding

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• Major fluctuations in weight gain and loss are detrimental to your health and embarrassing to explain to your friends and family.

  Linda Sunshine

  Loss, Family And Friends, Weight

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• I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

  Daniel Clowes

  Made

  "Daniel Clowes: 'You've got to be obsessed'" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

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• I did some pretty embarrassing modeling, like catalogs and QVC. I know there's probably a stereotype where all pretty girls think they're unattractive, but modeling is the worst thing for your self-esteem, because you're never pretty enough, you're never thin enough.

  Whitney Cummings

  Girl, Self Esteem, Thinking

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• I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.

  Ellen Barkin

  Years, People, Lazy

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• No. I think they're the idiot people and I'm the normal person. But I don't really go to parties where...I don't really have drunk friends. My friends are kind of adult; they have a drink. But they hold their liquor. I think it's incredibly embarrassing when people are drunk. It just looks so ridiculous. I find it very degrading. I think, oh, you're really degrading yourself right now, to be this pissed out in public.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Party, Thinking, Drunk

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• I remember being away somewhere, and I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day with a person, and that was very embarrassing.

  Bradley Cooper

  Valentines Day, Valentine's Day, Remember

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• Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all of that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, you’re coming to know humanness altogether. We are all up against these things. We are all in this together.

  Pema Chodron

  Kindness, Healing, Knowing

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• I always say that in order to appreciate warm weather, you must experience cold. I wouldn't change one thing - all the embarrassing moments, the defeats, all of everything - through all of this, I have learned me.

  Floyd Patterson

  Sports, Order, Weather

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• To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Kids, Engineering

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• They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of otherness, a level far beyond what sort of music they liked. It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship. It was almost embarrassing to

  Liane Moriarty

  Falling In Love, Humility, Pride

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• My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward.

  Wallace Shawn

  People, Awkward, Style

  W. Davies King, Wallace Shawn (1997). “Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn”, p.23, Temple University Press

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• Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing.

  Tom Robbins

  Psychics, Data, Challenges

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• Statistically speaking, giving in the church today is embarrassing at best. So, there needs to be a message, a movement that addresses the problem in this very prosperous nation that reminds us and reinforces the fact that God has blessed this nation and blessed us as a people for a reason, not to buy the next new car or a bigger house. God has blessed the United States of America so that we will purpose to reach out to others and in doing so accomplishing His Will, doing His work, and then He is glorified.

  Bob Coy

  Blessed, Church Today, America

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• There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Embarrassing Questions, Justice, Answers

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• Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

  Zoey Deutch

  Fashion, Design, Lines

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• I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I'll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It's a little embarrassing to admit it; I'm an old man now. It's important to me though.

  Keith Richards

  Sleep, Men, Animal

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