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• A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was one thing I was familiar with it was pleasing...There's no way to finish that sentence without embarrassing myself.

  Molly Harper

  Dresses, Way, Toes

  Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.

  Tom Schulman

  Thinking, Dead Poets Society, Worthless

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• There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Embarrassing Questions, Answers, Embarrassment

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• My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

  Francesca Annis

  Parent, Supportive

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• Well, it's embarrassing to be a star.

  Christian Bale

  Stars, Wells

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.

  Anna Kendrick

  Artist, Thinking, Fire

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• Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

  W. C. Fields

  Marriage, Things In Life, Old Friends

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• Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is an excellently embarrassing primate book, and just the thing to make us blush and shuffle our feet.

  Michael Bywater

  Book, Feet, Primates

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• We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.

  Dave Eggers

  Loss, Past, Soul

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• I try to write the most embarrassing thing I can think of.

  John Wieners

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

  Salman Rushdie

  Knowing, Important, Stories

  "Salman Rushdie: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I had the classic 40 meltdown, I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

  Keanu Reeves

  Funny, Mind, Body

  "Keanu Reeves suffered a meltdown when he turned 40". www.ctvnews.ca. March 2, 2012.

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• Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

  Natalie Portman

  Sex, Thinking, Roles

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

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• I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.

  Regis Philbin

  Couple, Farewell, Years

  "Jerry Seinfeld interviews Regis Philbin on his television career". Interview with Jerry Seinfeld, www.newsweek.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Yes, it’s embarrassing to be born again, but imagine how embarrassing it must have been to be born the first time. At least this time you get to wear clothes!

  Rich Mullins

  Clothes, Firsts, Imagine

  Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

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• One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some had lost friends. Some had lost wives and lovers. All had lost portions of their youth. More important to the Sinatra career the girls started marrying the men who came home. Bobby socks vanished from many closets. The girls who wore them had no need anymore for imaginary lovers; they had husbands. Nothing is more embarrassing to grownups than the passions of adolescence, and for many, Frank Sinatra was the passion.

  Pete Hamill

  Girl, Husband, Passion

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• A whole generation of people that didn't know me from 'SNL' recognize me from 'Weeds' now. People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!'

  Kevin Nealon

  Weed, Jobs, People

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• I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other.

  Robert Pattinson

  Kissing, Walking Away, Nuts

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• When I first started wearing wigs, I didn't know you had to anchor them down with bobby pins. I walked out during a windy day and my wig blew off and got stuck to a branch. I was walking while my wig was hanging! If that's not the most embarrassing thing... but you have to use bobby pins.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Anchors, Wigs, Use

  "Behind the Brush: Wiggin’ Out with Sherri Shepherd". "Ebony" Interview, www.ebony.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we might find that talking about an embarrassing story or admitting our frailty might lead to a more authentic relationship with others or ourselves.

  Frank Warren

  Thinking, Talking, Secret

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• Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

  Tracy Letts

  Divorce, Defeat, Admission

  Tracy Letts (2008). “August: Osage County (TCG Edition)”, p.78, Theatre Communications Group

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• It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.

  Mircea Eliade

  Embarrassing Questions, Answers, Problem

  Mircea Eliade (2013). “The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion”, p.72, University of Chicago Press

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• Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you're just a regular person. A regular embarrassing old mom.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Mom, Kids, Special

  "Reese Witherspoon Marvels At Her 'Sophisticated' Kids" by Kara Warner, www.mtv.com. December 14, 2010.

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• I'm sure that when my daughter will bring home her first boyfriend I'll? be so intimidating that he'll run away, but embarrassing as well, just to have a bit of fun.

  Robbie Williams

  Daughter, Running, Fun

  "Williams used tour DVD to 'get laid'". www.breakingnews.ie. June 18, 2013.

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• You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

  Grace Slick

  Numbers, Trying, Looks

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