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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when people act on intuition, or for illogical reasons. Sometimes the results are ludicrous and embarrassing; more often they are simply horrible. But here I am, just the same, behaving like a crackbrained crystal gazer.

  Stephen King

  Here I Am, People, Intuition

  Stephen King (1988). “The eyes of the dragon: a story”, Egully.com

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line of constant progress. Including ideas would make history contingent: things could go either way, and have on occasion. The 'right' people, armed with the 'right' ideas, have not always won. When they didn't, the authors would be in the embarrassing position of having to disapprove of an outcome in the past. Including ideas would introduce uncertainty. This is not textbook style.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Ideas, People

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.203, The New Press

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• God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought I’d be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?" Lace looked at me sidelong. "You were where?" I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. "I, uh, hadn’t been in the city...very long. I didn’t know.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Mean, Beer, Gay

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.175, Penguin

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• Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River. Eve: I think it'd be embarrassing to be dead in the Hoochie-Coochie River. Roarke: Chattahoochee Eve: What's the difference? Roarke: Quite a bit, I'd think.

  Nora Roberts

  Men, Thinking, Rivers

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• When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stupid, Kids, Phones

  "Director J.J. Abrams Interview STAR TREK DVD – Talks About Deleted Scenes". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. October 14, 2009.

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• I love dressing up and doing the red carpet every once in a while, but I am very much a jeans kinda girl, so it's all a little embarrassing for me.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Girl, Jeans, Dressing Up

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• I'm not sure a person ever really reveals the whole of himsels or herself to another person, and I'm not sure we should. Or rather, just because you don't, it doesn't mean you can't have a meaningful relationship with another person. It's important to remember that this idea of confessing your most shameful, embarrassing stories and self to someone else as an expression of love and intimacy is a relatively recent phenomenon, and a new definition of what it means to be close to someone. After all, the self is by its nature secretive.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Meaningful, Important, Remember

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

  Ayn Rand

  Discovery, Venture, Opinion

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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• People you knew when you were teenagers, the ones who saw your stupidest haircut and the most embarrassing things you've done in your life, and they still cared about you after all that: they're not replaceable, you know?

  Tana French

  Teenager, People, Done

  Tana French (2012). “Broken Harbour: Dublin Murder Squad: 4. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book of the Year”, p.287, Hachette UK

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• It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.

  John Green

  Morning, Eggs, Accepting

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.85, Penguin

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• She reached out and touched the king’s face, cupping his cheek in her hand. “Just a nightmare,” he said, his voice still rough. The queen’s voice was cool. “How embarrassing,” she said, looking at his maimed arm. The king looked up then, and followed her gaze. If it was embarrassing to wake like a child screaming from a nightmare, how much more embarrassing to be the reason your husband woke screaming. A quick smile visited the king’s face. “Ouch,” he said, referring to more than the pain in his side. “Ouch,” he said again as the queen gathered him into her arms.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Queens, Children

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• Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

  Paula Danziger

  Silly, Writing, People

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• I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.

  Steve Carell

  Dad, Growing Up, Kids

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• I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Life Is, Time Passes, Feels

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• In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.

  John Green

  Gay, Thinking, Annoyed

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.60, A&C Black

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