Embarrassed Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• My bandmate once pissed his pants when we were playing in Brazil - but we weren't embarrassed, we were proud.

  David Macklovitch

  Brazil, Proud, Pants

  "Dillon Francis Interviews Friends Including Kygo, Bro Safari, on 'This Mixtape Is Fire'". edmchicago.com. August 21, 2015.

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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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• My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.

  Mason Cooley

  Witty, Father, Earnest

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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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• I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.

  Lily Allen

  School, Unhappy, Rehearsal

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

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• With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.

  Carl Pomerance

  Science, Mathematics, Unlikely

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• I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment.

  Benjamin Watson

  Law, Racism, Mind

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.15, NavPress

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• This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.

  Daniel Handler

  Love Is, Liking Someone, Trouble

  "Adverbs". Book by Daniel Handler, June 5, 2006.

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• I started lip-synching with "Losing My Religion." There were a few horrendous mistakes we made, but I own those mistakes. I'm embarrassed by them. I always say when I look back at anything I've ever done, it's with equal dollops of humiliation and triumphant glory.

  Michael Stipe

  Mistake, Looks, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What does it take for Republicans to take off the flag pin and say, 'I am just too embarrassed to be on this team'?

  Bill Maher

  Team, Doe, Flags

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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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• 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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• Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the "Aussie" is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.

  Rachael Taylor

  Who I Am, Proud, Sometimes

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

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• The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

  Dan Wheldon

  Running, Dad, Children

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• I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner

  Careers, Looks, Wanted

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• I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

  Louise Mensch

  Writing, Today, Novel

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