Embarrassed Quotes

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  Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

  John Steinbeck

  Roots, America, Usa

  Attributed in "A Short History of Progress" by Ronald Wright, Toronto: Anansi Press, (pp. 124), 2004.

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• Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

  Joyce Brothers

  Witty, Hurt, Simple

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• I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

  Phil McGraw

  Teacher, Teaching, Eye

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

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• If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

  Reid Hoffman

  Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Too Late

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• I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

  Joyce Brothers

  Teaching, Learning, Simple

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing" by Larry Chang, (p. 415), 2006.

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• I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

  Helen Hunt

  Thinking, Years, Want

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• Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.

  Jalal Talabani

  Gratitude, Military, People

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• At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Life, Dream

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• I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.

  Justin Hayward

  Stupid, Worry, Feelings

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• I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Hate, Years, Parent

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Aug 18, 2012

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• I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.

  Adriana Lima

  Smile

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• I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.

  Kate Smith

  People, Training, Example

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• What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hurt, Mean, Thinking

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• Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.

  Abdul Kalam

  Media, Achievement, Stories

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• I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.

  Corazon Aquino

  Believe, Miracle, I Believe

  "Borrowed Narratives: Using Biographical and Historical Grief Narratives with the Bereaving". Book by Harold Ivan Smith (p.193), 2012.

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• I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Fake People, Believe, Guy

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• I don't get embarrassed.

  Kesha

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

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• You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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• I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

  Julie Christie

  Regret, Too Much, Kind

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• Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

  Doris Lessing

  Stars, Cutting, People

  'The Habit of Loving' (1957) ch. 17

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• My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them.

  George Dzundza

  People, Portrayal, Concern

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• I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.

  Shirley Manson

  Girlfriend, Clothes, Feel Good

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

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• All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.

  Blair Underwood

  Moving, Made, Had A Great Time

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• I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Science, Errors, Engineering

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• Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

  Alan Perlis

  Computer, Computer Science

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM "SIGPLAN" Notices 17 (9), (pp. 7-13), September 1982.

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