Embarrassing Quotes - Page 7

• My mistakes do happen on a grand scale and very public level. They're humiliating, embarrassing. But if nothing bad happens to you, you'll just continue to act ridiculous.

  Christian Slater

  Mistake, Levels, Ridiculous

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• Yesterday Jerry Springer bowed out of the Ohio Senate race. He said, 'If I can't run the most embarrassing campaign in America, then I'm out of here.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Running, Race, Ohio

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• For me, I'm OK doing embarrassing things, when it's with somebody else. I'm not the only person to look at.

  Amy Smart

  Looks, Persons

  "Interview: the Cast of Crank". Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. August 29, 2006.

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• But truly, women are amazing. Think about it this way: a woman can grow a baby inside her body. Then a woman can deliver the baby through her body. Then, by some miracle, a woman can feed a baby with her body. When you compare that to the male’s contribution to life, it’s kind of embarrassing, really.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Baby, Women

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• Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

  Jason Ritter

  Dad, Would Be, Mediocre

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• Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.

  Brian Eno

  Details, Looks, Amplify

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• We suppose that could be considered a hedged position for the awards committee, one that would never occur in the hard sciences such as physics and chemistry, where a prize shared among three with divergent views would be an embarrassing mistake or a bad joke. While a Nobel Prize might well be the culmination of a life’s work, shouldn’t the work accurately describe the real world?

  Seth Klarman

  Real, Mistake, Awards

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• It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons

  Jenny Holzer

  Stupid, Reason, Caught

  Jenny Holzer, Stefan Banz, Thomas Whitridge, Béatrix Ruf (2001). “Jenny Holzer: xenon”

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• When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.

  Nolan Ryan

  Horror Stories, Dyslexia, Frustrating

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• When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so naturally. Only a few times have I managed to creep inside. Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure - The Serpent's Egg, The Touch, Face to Face and so on.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Moving, Eggs

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

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• My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud.

  Petra Stunt

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

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• The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Beautiful, Country, Travel

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “A World of Strangers”, p.45, A&C Black

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• We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Fear, Practice, People

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Science, Sweaters, Space

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• You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Guy, Standing

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• I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.

  Jimmy Page

  Simple, Play, People

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• It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's OK to blast perfect strangers with crass messages every hour of the day, but it's a tinge embarrassing, it brings up some shyness, it seems an intrusion, it risks rejection to share real heartfelt commitments. It's easier to share our cynicism with strangers than our dreams with friends.

  Donella Meadows

  Friends, Dream, Real

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• The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Confused, Able, Kind

  "Jean Baudrillard" by Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2007.

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• Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every form-it was about advocating kids to not wait to be told what to do, but make life up for themselves, it was about trying to get people to use their imaginations again, it was about not being perfect, it was about saying it was ok to be amateurish and funny, that real creativity came out of making a mess, it was about working with what you got in front of you and turning everything embarrassing, awful, and stupid in your life to your advantage.

  Legs McNeil

  Real, Stupid, Creativity

  Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain (2006). “Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk”, p.334, Grove Press

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• Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?

  Yao Ming

  Embarrassing Questions, Hands, Editors

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• Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary recruits into the Union army. But this did not last. Northerners may have disapproved of slavery in the South but, once the bloodletting began in earnest, their willingness to die for that conviction began to wane. [...] Lincoln faced the embarrassing reality that he soon would have no army to carry on the crusade.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Moving, Army

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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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• Like I say, it's almost embarrassing to talk about. I don't know if Michael Jordan or Bill Gates or Alexander the Great or anyone is worth this type of money, but that's the market we're in today. That's what Mr. Hicks decided to pay me, and now it's time to pay him back and win a couple championships.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Couple, Winning, Pay

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• I knew damn well I would never be a movie star. It's too hard; and if you are intelligent, it's too embarrassing. My complexes aren't inferior enough: being a movie star and having a big fat ego are supposed to go hand-in-hand; actually, it's essential not to have any ego at all. I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try and get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego, tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

  Holly Golightly

  Morning, Stars, Mean

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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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