Embarrassing Quotes

• Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.

  Sam Ewing

  Inspirational, Life And Love, Humorous

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• It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

  Sean Lennon

  Funny, Stupid, Play

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

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• Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.

  Jane Campion

  Thinking, Doe, Way

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• Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!

  Kelly Clarkson

  Girl, Loss, Guy

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• As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Balls, Rooms, Realizing

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.142, Bantam

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• Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Running, People, Risk

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• Beauty is embarrassing for three reasons. When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in. Number two... People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassingly. Number three... Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line. It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty. So that's just three of several reasons why I think beauty is embarrassing.

  Wayne White

  "'Pee Wee's Playhouse' Designer Wayne White Finds That 'Beauty Is Embarrassing'". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

  Paul Newman

  Funny, Movie, Salad Dressing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The bastards murdered half my family.

  Prince Philip

  Dukes, Edinburgh, Half

  "Prince Philip, the grandfather of political incorrectness" by John Moody, www.foxnews.com.

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• How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

  Prince Philip

  Diamond Jubilee, Long, Tests

  "Prince Philip: His public life in gaffes", edition.cnn.com. May 4, 2017.

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• You managed not to get eaten then?

  Prince Philip

  Edinburgh, Dukes, Classic

  "Long Line of Princely Gaffes". Said in 1998 to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2002.

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• You look like you're ready for bed!

  Prince Philip

  Dukes, Bed, Edinburgh

  "Prince Philip's Best and Worst Public Gaffes Ahead of His Final Royal Engagement". Said in 2003 to President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, www.mirror.co.uk. August 02, 2017.

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• If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Age, Nuclear, May

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.45, Lantern Books

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• Every day, I have a most embarrassing moment.

  Steven Hill

  Moments, Embarrassing Moment

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• One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average.

  J. Michael Bailey

  Average, Psychology, Facts

  "Stereotypes of homosexuals". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. August 23, 2002.

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• The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

  William O. Douglas

  Government, Practice, Freedom Of Speech

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• Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Pain, Bears

  On Photography "America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly" (1977)

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• Ooh, it's too ­embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well ­received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so ­inept.

  Gary Lineker

  Romantic, Drama, College

  "Gary Lineker reveals he's staying with the BBC.. and reveals men fall over themselves to speak to Danielle in the street". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 9, 2011.

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• A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.

  Jay Leno

  Dad, Father, Iraq

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• Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame

  Miranda Hart

  Confusion, Feeling Alone, Feelings

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• I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

  Silvia Colloca

  Guy, Shy, Red

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• But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  Artist, Marijuana, Opinion

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• The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.

  Paul Bettany

  Sex, Fun, Talking

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• I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

  Bruce Nauman

  Thinking, Influence

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• Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

  Julie Christie

  Attention, Magazines, Saws

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