Embarrassed Quotes - Page 15

• He who has little will receive. He who has much will be embarrassed.

  Laozi

  Littles, Wealth

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.

  Tony Wilson

  Mother, Thinking, Knowing

  "It was the best party... ever". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2002.

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• Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Differences, Phrases, Conservative

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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 was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

  Allegra Huston

  Girl, Taken, California

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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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• As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that I'm embarrassed of.

  Alexandra Patsavas

  Embrace, Genre, Supervisors

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• Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me!

  Ellen Sussman

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh.

  Elizabeth Banks

  People, Laughing, Making People Laugh

  "Q&A: Elizabeth Banks Is Every Woman You Know". Interview with Stephen Garrett, www.esquire.com. August 23, 2011.

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• Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Mistake, Learning

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• I'm saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Want, Embarrassment

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• I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.

  Charlize Theron

  Girl, School, Jail

  Source: collider.com

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• I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don't mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don't want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.

  Bill Nighy

  People, Mind, Want

  "Bill Nighy Stops the Clock". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2013.

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• I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Patriotism, Film

  "Q&A with 'King's Speech' director Tom Hooper". Interview with Walter Addiego, www.sfgate.com. February 4, 2011.

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• As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.

  Caldwell Esselstyn

  Physicians, Needs, Disease

  Caldwell B. Esselstyn (2007). “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure”, p.10, Penguin

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• Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when embarrassed to articulate with difficulty-He wore the costume of our grandfathers. Was enormously rich but made no use of his wealth... He Cavendish lived latterly the life of a solitary, came to the Club dinner & to the Royal Society: but received nobody at his home. He was acute sagacious & profound & I think the most accomplished British Philosopher of his time.

  Humphry Davy

  Home, Men, Thinking

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

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Speak, Should, Third Person

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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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• There's a great Albert Camus quote: 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.' When I first re-emerged, I was embarrassed to walk down the street. People would come up and say, 'I heard you were dead!' But I had to remind myself that a lot of the stuff I went through was pretty brutal. I'm definitely thankful that some of the rough patches are behind me.

  Natasha Lyonne

  People, Rough Patches, World

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