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• It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.

  Jessica Lange

  Humiliating

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• There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Mistake, Stupid, Book

  A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

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• But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Regret, Stupid

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• I went to a hypnotist. He put me under a spell, and every time I had a craving for a cigarette, I would throw up. It's very embarrassing right after sex. I find it pretty hard to get that second date after that. Girls get all snobby after you barf on them.

  Norm MacDonald

  Girl, Sex, Cigarette

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• I don't care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.

  Norm MacDonald

  Sports, Sex, Exercise

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• When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.

  Iggy Pop

  Should Have, People, Capes

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• Me + Love Songs on KOST=embarrassing car jam sesh.

  Joanna Garcia

  Song, Car, Jam

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• I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.

  Steve Earle

  Needs, Records, Selling

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• For me, writing music is a good way to say what's on my mind. It's less vulnerable in a way, less embarrassing, less exposing to the idea of seeing someone's reaction. The thing about it, though, is you need to be ready... especially if you've got something you're burning to say... even if it's just what some people might think is just a small moment that nobody'd ever bother with or notice.

  Aaron Lines

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• If you saw my musical collection it's absolutely horrendous, I've got everything from Stockhausen to The Beach Boys to Gina G, all sorts of terrible things and other people come here and look at my record collection and go, "Ah, you can't possibly like that - how embarrassing!"

  Thighpaulsandra

  Beach, Boys, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.

  Margaret Deland

  Age, Quality, Relief

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed.

  Kevin Bacon

  Years, Want, Honestly

  "Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon Discuss Mystic River" by Fred Topel, www.ign.com. October 10, 2003.

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• Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

  Dominic Cooper

  Stupid, Risk, Trying

  "Dominic Cooper Goes a Little Bit Rock And Roll". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable. For years, fashion wasn't fashionable. Today fashion is so fashionable that it's almost embarrassing to say you're part of fashion. All the parodies of it. All the dreadful magazines. That has destroyed it as well, because everybody thinks fashion is attainable.

  Louise Wilson

  Fashion, Thinking, Years

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• Most of us have nicknames-annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name?It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.Ever wonder why?Your true name has the secret power to call you.

  Vera Nazarian

  Names, Secret, Wonder

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• Major fluctuations in weight gain and loss are detrimental to your health and embarrassing to explain to your friends and family.

  Linda Sunshine

  Loss, Family And Friends, Weight

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• The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.

  James Fallows

  Party, Ignorance, Hands

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• I would never do a commercial for something that is embarrassing, and I think that people maybe have a different perspective on what is embarrassing or not. Some people think doing a Revlon hair commercial is really cool. To me, that's embarrassing, but World of Warcraft: not embarrassing, very cool.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Thinking, Hair, People

  "Aubrey Plaza on Her Sundance Superhit and Her Murderous Plans Involving Ryan Gosling". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, www.vulture.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.

  Claire Foy

  Hate, Actors, Clue

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  Vince Vaughn

  Mom, Dad, Names

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• My mom calls me 'baby face.' It's very embarrassing.

  Stephen Colletti

  Mom, Baby, Faces

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• Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.

  Stacy Aumonier

  Bernard Shaw

  Stacy Aumonier (1921). “The Golden Windmill: And Other Stories”

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• I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing.

  Miranda Hart

  Denial, I Can

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• It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form's sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow.The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense

  George MacDonald

  War, Men, Past

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• When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Deities, Looks, Might

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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