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• I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.

  Goenawan Mohamad

  Thinking, Mind, Blank

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• There was an embarrassing moment at a recent Democratic fundraiser. When John Kerry was handed a $10 million dollar check, he said, 'I do.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Dollars, Moments, Checks

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• I dont know if its embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.

  Tony Oller

  Girl, Christian, Knows

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• I'm not afraid to write about madness. I always figure that whatever most embarrasses you is something that everyone can relate to, really...because we're just not that different. So if you think, 'Oh my god, this is so embarrassing. I can't possibly talk about that,' and you write about it, the audience is gonna be like, 'that happened to me!

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

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• The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the social sciences are mere pathways which lead through a riotous forest of individual trees, each a species unto itself. The social scientist who loses this sense of the essential individuality and uniqueness of each case is all too likely to make a solemn scientific ass of himself, especially if he thinks that his faceless generalizations are the equivalents of the rich vareity of the world.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Thinking, Tree, Individuality

  "Evidences for an Administrative Science: A review of the Administrative Science Quarterly, volumes 1 and 2". Administrative Science Quarterly. Volume 3, No. 1, p. 14, 1958.

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• So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently, because it would be highly embarrassing if I said, “Good evening Yaleites” or “Yalers”, or whatever you guys are called, and got stuck at Yaaaaa…. That wouldn’t make for much of a speech.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Yale, Guy, Speech

  "SHAHRUKH KHAN's speech at Yale: Don't take no s**t from anybody!". www.bollywoodlife.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what we are taught rather than to form our own goals and to figure out how to achieve them. We are fed with facts and tested and those who make the fewest mistakes are considered to be the smart ones, so we learn that it is embarrassing to not know and to make mistakes. Our education system spends virtually no time on how to learn from mistakes, yet this is critical to real learning.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Mistake, Smart

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• There was an embarrassing moment in the White House earlier today. They were looking around while searching for George Bush's military records. They actually found some old Al Gore ballots.

  David Letterman

  Military, White, House

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• I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.

  Jim Morrison

  Thinking, Phrases, Language

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• Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Self, Should Have

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.

  Tommy Bolin

  Moving, Moments, Embarrassing Moment

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• My most embarrassing moment was probably when I was on tour and I would throw the mic out of my hand and catch it but one time I dropped it and I felt so stupid. My most exhilarating moment is every time I step on stage to perform.

  Shawn Desman

  Stupid, Hands, Steps

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• China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.

  Chris Christie

  Government, People, Chinese

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate". cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• All my legitimate jobs were embarrassing. I used to be stock boy at an Odd-Lot, making $35 a day.

  Method Man

  Jobs, Boys, Odd

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• I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to have some sort of value. Or it only has some kind of value to me, if it's something really personal. It has to mean something to me. I guess it is a little uncomfortable, or it's a little embarrassing sometimes, to know that stuff that honest is out there. But, when I hand off the thing, when it's totally done and mastered and sent, I kinda feel like it doesn't belong to me anymore.

  Panda Bear

  Song, Mean, Writing

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• The only time I feel pressured is when some woman's husband comes over and says, "Will you go ask my wife to dance? She's a great dancer and would just love to dance with you."Suddenly there's a crowd of people standing around us and they expect that they're about to see Fred and Ginger. Here the woman and I have just met, and these people think that it's showtime. That is the only time I think it is really embarrassing.

  Gene Kelly

  Husband, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.

  David Brooks

  Stupid, Views, Should Have

  "Shields and Brooks on Hagel’s Rough Hearing, Movement on Immigration". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2013.

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• Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Unhappy, Lawyer, Knots

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• I have big feet. Do you know how embarrassing it is when you ask for a shoe and they look at you like, "No, we don't make these heels for Bigfoot, sorry."

  Margot Robbie

  Sorry, Shoes, Feet

  "Margot Robbie Is Fascinated by Dating Apps". Interview with ELLE, www.elle.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing.

  How to Dress Well

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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