Embarrassment Quotes

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I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves… — Emma Stone
I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped… — Cybill Shepherd
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly… — Suzanne Vega
I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I… — Callan McAuliffe
George Bush has become something of an embarrassment. — Tony Snow
For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of… — Unknown Author
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him… — Elizabeth Bishop
Those who see what's obvious aren't necessarily brighter than others. They're just more likely to observe that the emperor is naked. Like children, they see… — Richard Farson
Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt),… — John MacLachlan Gray
You will be most effective when members can complement each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear. — Peter R. Scholtes
Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in… — Fred Reed
One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there -… — Neal Stephenson
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and… — Shirley Hazzard
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.â€â€œThe better we get at getting better, the faster we… — Douglas Engelbart
Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not… — Bill Brandt
Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment. — Susan Piver
One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made. — Siegfried Lenz
Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of… — Carlo M. Cipolla
I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing. — Katie Holmes
I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at… — Willard Wigan

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