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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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• Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a way out of its clutches. It is embarrassing and unpleasant as a subject for discussion but because of its prevalence, the need to warn the uninitiated, and the desire to help those who may already be involved in it, it is discussed in this chapter.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Past, Temptation, Desire

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• I'm not scandalous. I think it's actually embarrassing to be in those, yet some people will do anything to be in those magazines. I'm happy with who I am, and I'm happy with the way people portray me. If it's too normal, then that's their opinion.

  Hilary Duff

  Life Lesson, Thinking, Who I Am

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

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• It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing

  Bill Wyman

  Funny, Dumb, Stage

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• A lot of people have warned President Clinton that Bosnia will turn into another Vietnam, which would be embarrassing for him because he'll have to go back to college.

  Bill Maher

  College, People, President

  Bill Maher (1996). “Does Anybody Have a Problem with That?: Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hits”, Villard Books

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• Do you know what is really embarrassing and makes your pride hurt? Lacking some skill? Not being able to earn some money? It's not that. Fearing something once, and being scared of it forever.

  Kim Du-han

  Hurt, Drama, Pride

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• When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Book, Writing, Underwear

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Apr 02, 2013

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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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• 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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• The giant raised his fist, and a voice cut through the dream. "Leo!" Jason was shaking his shoulder. "Hey, man, why are you hugging Nike?" Leo's eyes fluttered open. His arms were wrapped around the human-sized statue in Athena's hand. He must have been thrashing in his sleep. He clung to the victory goddess like he used to cling to his pillow when he had nightmares as a kid. (Man, that had been so embarrassing in the foster homes.) He disentangled himself and sat up, rubbing his face. "Nothing," he muttered. "we were just cuddling. Um, what's going on?

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Nike, Sleep

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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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• 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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• For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Humility, And Love, Love And Respect

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• So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses. Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands. There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now. I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Thinking, Government, Order

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• After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Dirty, Golf, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

  William Hazlitt

  Genius, Merit, Assumption

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• Mind your own Brazilian!" The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops. OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is not to overreact. Instead, keep your chin up and pretend nothing happened.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mistake, Mind, Mouths

  "I've Got Your Number: A Novel". Book by Sophie Kinsella, 2012.

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• I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.

  Jenny Lawson

  Important, Different, Incidents

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.233, Pan Macmillan

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• It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.

  Philip Pullman

  Doe, Impossible, Academic

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a whisky, making a fool of myself, getting aggressive, maudlin and drunkenly out of control. I have never found those states in others anything other than tiring, awkward, embarrassing and fantastically dull, but I am quite sure that people would cherish a view of me in that condition at least once in a while.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Views, People

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.223, The Overlook Press

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• Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Age, Gaps, Talent

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• Amazing.” Hi stripped off his shirt, wrung it out. “Score one for your honker.” “Thanks, I think.” I cocked my chin at Hi’s substantial midsection. “Nice abs.” “Yeah, I work out twice a month. No expectations. But stop hitting on me, it’s embarrassing.

  Kathy Reichs

  Nice, Thinking, Work Out

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• My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

  Haruki Murakami

  Grandpa, Asking, Moments

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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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