Embarrassment Quotes - Page 3

• To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

  Wilson Mizner

  Bed, Born

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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• Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.

  Jodi Picoult

  Causes, Action

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

  Anne Lamott

  Kids, Grandparent, Relief

  "Anne Lamott's directions for grandparents: 'Some Assembly Required'". Interview with Katia Hetter, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sight, Space, Dinosaurs

  "'Space Chronicles': Why Exploring Space Still Matters". Interview with David Greene, www.npr.org. February 27, 2012.

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• The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

  Garrison Keillor

  Fall, Ideas, People

  "Keillor To Retire From Prairie Home In 2013" by wenn.com, March 18, 2011.

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• Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe. If you must go into the arts, go into them for yourself alone. On some basic level you must enjoy the act of doing it ... Otherwise, you are going to end up frustrated and unhappy. Recognition in the arts is luck and gravy.

  Joan Rivers

  Art, Disappointment, Air

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• Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.

  Doug Larson

  Children, Example, Doe

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• OMG YOU GUYS it has come to my attention that SOMEONE on the internet is saying that my fictional 19th century zombies are NOT SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND. Naturally, I am crushed. To think, IF ONLY I’d consulted with a zombologist or two before sitting down to write, I could’ve avoided ALL THIS EMBARRASSMENT.

  Cherie Priest

  Writing, Thinking, Two

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• The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

  Paul Schrader

  Creative, Secret, Ease

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• The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Way, Calm

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• For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

  Tina Fey

  Inspirational, Laughing, Bills

  "Funny girl". www.seventeen.com. January 24, 2008.

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• One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Involved

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• The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.

  Ben Morgan

  Motivation, Way, Lost

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Moral

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.

  Scott Adams

  Success, Risk, Quality

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• Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Destiny, Choices

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• I remember back to my days as a teenager. When you get your feelings hurt, you feel that moment of embarrassment. You think: "No one wants to talk to me ever again. It's all over." I reassure people that's totally not the case. These bullies are just hateful people doing hateful things. Sometimes, it's a lesson in tough love, but you keep positive, smile in the face of hateful adversity and move on. It makes you a stronger person.

  John Cena

  Hurt, Teenager, Moving

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?

  Callan McAuliffe

  Mean, Trying, Bigs

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• He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

  Lord Byron

  People, Ears, Resources

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• ...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Abuse, Suffering

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• In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature — both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of the preceding civilisations which had produced it.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Teacher, Art, Book

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• George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.

  Tony Snow

  "Message to GOPers: When you sell out, you get booted out" by Tony Snow, www.jewishworldreview.com. November 11, 2005.

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• Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.

  Fred Reed

  Character, Games, Class

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• For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.

  Amy Davidson

  Government, Wings, Crisis

  "Obama’s Speech: Guns and Government" by Amy Davidson Sorkin, www.newyorker.com. February 12, 2013.

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• You will be most effective when members can compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear.

  Peter R. Scholtes

  Team, Collaboration, Conflict

  "The team handbook for educators: how to use teams to improve quality".

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