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• I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.

  Christine Quinn

  Done, Way, Facts

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• My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts, that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!

  Kate Winslet

  Stars, Responsibility, Thinking

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

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• Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.

  Yoko Ono

  Race, Feelings, Body

  "Age becomes her" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

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• I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.

  Walter Dean Myers

  People, Loud, Feels

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• I don't get embarrassed easily, and I do silly things all the time!

  Emily Osment

  Silly, Silly Things

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• I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  America, Japan, Fans

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• I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.

  Helen Mirren

  Blow, Noses, Dignity

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• On the first day of middle school I wore high-heeled shoes that you weren't allowed to wear. I remember being so embarrassed because in every class I went to they kept pointing out that I couldn't wear these shoes. I wanted to call my mom and have her bring me new shoes!

  Emma Stone

  Mom, School, New Shoes

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• The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Actors, Knighthood, Stuff

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• Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Bad Ass, Idols, Competition

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• I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.

  Gough Whitlam

  Memorable, White, Australia

  "100 Years: The Australian Story". Book by Paul Kelly (p. 196), 2001.

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• I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.

  Christopher A. Sims

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed from me too. And if there were, well I wouldn't be the first American president that underlings have lied to, or that career bureaucrats have waited out. But there may be some career person sitting around somewhere, hiding these dark secrets, even from elected presidents. But if so, they successfully eluded me...and I'm almost embarrassed to tell you I did (chuckling) try to find out.

  William J. Clinton

  Dark, Government, Careers

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• Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it

  Nick Morgan

  Love, Life, Family

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• I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.

  Anton Yelchin

  People, Awful, These Days

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• When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun.

  Nicki Minaj

  Morning, Fun, Wigs

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• The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems embarrassed by the presence of its parents.

  Bob Samples

  Children, Parent, Mind

  Bob Samples (1976). “The metaphoric mind: a celebration of creative consciousness”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep inthe memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Memories, Childhood

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• When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Giving, Needs

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• As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students.... There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Stars

  "Carter slams Georgia's 'evolution' proposal". edition.cnn.com. January 30, 2004.

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• The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed when this is taken out of its context of proper sentiments and presented bare, for he feels that this is a reintrusion of that world which his whole conscious effort has sought to banish. Forms and conventions are the ladder of ascent. And hence the speechlessness of the man of culture when he beholds the barbarian tearing aside some veil which is half adornment, half concealment.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Taken, Men, Effort

  "Ideas have Consequences". Book by Richard M. Weaver. p. 26, 1948.

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• I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and do exactly what I wanted to do. That way I would never have to change for anybody.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Careers, Complaining, Needs

  "Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

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• I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.

  Ben Fountain

  Littles, Gaps, Ashamed

  "Interview with Ben Fountain, Author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

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• I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Kids, Eye, Two

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it-that's how liars are.

  Chris Chelios

  Liars, Believe, Nhl

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