Embarrassed Quotes - Page 11

• I've done some things I'm embarrassed about, and I like to tell people about them so that maybe they feel less embarrassed or alone when they do something they're unsure about.

  Amy Schumer

  People, Done, Feels

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• As we move closer and closer to a nonsexist world, women will have an equal opportunity as men to be rejected, embarrassed, and humiliated beyond all consolation.

  Linda Sunshine

  Moving, Opportunity, Men

  Linda Sunshine (1989). “Women Who Date Too Much”, Plume

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• Well, it's true that you often kind of forget to see the person you're most intimate with, but occasionally I'll come to and sort of think, 'Oh my God! You're really, really good-looking! I'm embarrassed now! It's nice to occasionally have that flash.

  Claire Danes

  Nice, Thinking, Kind

  "Glamour's January Cover Star Claire Danes on Why She's Happier in Her 30s". Interview with Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. December 3, 2013.

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• I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.

  Wallace Shawn

  Niece, Nephew, What If

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

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• I think if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed, you can rule the world.

  Amy Poehler

  Thinking, World, Ifs

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.258, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.

  John Lennon

  Moving, Guitar, Way

  Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.21, Verso

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• Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.

  Patricia Marx

  Littles, Serious, Bits

  "Patricia Marx Tells A Tale Of Sweet, Unbalanced Love". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 13, 2011.

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• Other people's devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people's kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely.

  Walter Kirn

  Kissing, People, Devotion

  Walter Kirn (2006). “Mission to America”, p.170, Anchor

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• Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.

  Ann Brashares

  People, Way, Would Be

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.132, Penguin

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• When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

  Noah Baumbach

  Language, Our Family

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• When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.

  John Dos Passos

  New York, Men, Typewriters

  John Dos Passos, Library of America (Firm) (2003). “Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941”

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• Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Firsts, Fame

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• We feel properly embarrassed when we are caught doing something that makes us look inept, knuckleheaded, or inappropriate. Maybe the difference is this: we feel embarrassed because we look bad, and we feel shame because we think we are bad. When we are embarrassed, we feel socially foolish. When we are shamed, we feel morally unworthy.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Thinking, Differences, Looks

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• Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. “Well, children all have to belong to somebody,” he muttered. “Do you belong to someone?” “That’s different.” “Because you’re a grown-up?

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Shoes, Different

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• Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor.

  Brian Kernighan

  Sorry, Learning, Mind

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• Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.

  Thomas Sowell

  Love, Sex, Four

  Thomas Sowell (1999). “Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.

  Miles Davis

  Play, People, Might

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster

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• Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Women, Dope, Buying

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• One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Speak, Should, Third Person

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• For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.'

  Bruce Campbell

  Mean, Long, Hollywood

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• I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Past, Thinking, People

  "Dancing on Ice star Jennifer Ellison's guilt at being away from her son" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. January 14, 2012.

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• I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she is-she's a hero.

  Carrie Jones

  Mom, Hero, Used

  Carrie Jones, Steven E. Wedel (2011). “After Obsession”, p.303, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.

  Steve Almond

  Wise, True Friend, Heart

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• Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their attention. Neither should we hesitate to bring the simplest requests confidently to the Father.

  Richard J. Foster

  Children, Father, Parent

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss willingly and that our fall is cushioned by faith--faith that at the bottom we will be caught and taught and turned toward the light. I pray that we don't waste precious energy feeling ashamed of our mistakes, or embarrassed by our flaws. After years of teaching, I know only a few things for sure. One of them is this: We are chunks of dense matter that need to be cracked open. Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mistake, Teaching, Fall

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