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Lia: "You've changed your mind about wanting to marry me. You're afraid I'll burn down your home. Embarrass you in front of all the other city brutes." Zane: "I'm afraid," he said gently, "that you will burn down my heart. -- Shana Abe
There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. -- Drew Barrymore
I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me. -- Danny Glover
We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents. -- Paul Prudhomme
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species. -- Walter Lang
When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents. -- Russell Crowe
I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench. -- Sparky Anderson
If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? -- John Gunther
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. -- Jessica Mitford
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. -- Mark Twain
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? -- Tom Clancy
I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it. -- Lisa Gardner
I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line. -- Mia Sara
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian. -- Ama Ata Aidoo
I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that. -- Jack White
Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life. -- Jeremy Lin
You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating. -- Nathan Fillion
I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life. -- Jeremy Lin
I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.' -- Iggy Pop
Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable. -- Peter Farrelly
As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
What kept me out of trouble is going right to the edge and then... thinking that my mother would be embarrassed, and that I didn't want to embarrass her, and that my father would be embarrassed, and I just didn't want to do that to my family. -- Bill Cosby
My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir. -- Mavis Staples
I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it. -- Becki Newton
I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions. -- Jenna Bush
Generally I find that kids ask better questions than you get with adults. Something that kids will do a lot is, they're so nervous, and they're not really paying attention, so they'll ask the same question someone just asked. And you're trying to be nice and not embarrass them any more than they are already. -- James Patterson
I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway. -- Henry Rollins
I don't wish to embarrass anyone. -- Chrissie Hynde
I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily. -- Zoe Kazan
At least it's really entertaining when I embarrass myself. -- Lucas Till
Your situation does not embarrass God because He has solution. -- T. B. Joshua
Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother. -- Robert Byrd
I can't promise that I won't continue to embarrass people. -- Tony Abbott
If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me. -- Gary Player
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass. -- Bel Kaufman
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior. -- George Bernard Shaw
The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee... -- Emily Dickinson
It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa "? it is your answers. -- Helen Suzman
I'm going to embarrass my kids - sex is important. Sex is really important. -- Kyra Sedgwick
I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench." -- Sparky Anderson
My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career. -- Bow Wow
Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions. -- Howard Raiffa
Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility. -- Peter Akinola
My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition. -- David Lipsky
Did I try to embarrass other people? Now if it's about other people, guilty guilty guilty guilty. -- Kevin Hart
Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to. -- Andrew Marr
I'm very blessed that I have such a supportive wife who is secure with letting me embarrass myself. -- Ken Jeong
I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that's just how it's going to be. -- Jen Lancaster
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written. -- Gloria Vanderbilt
It doesn't embarrass me one bit to let you know that I believe Adam and Eve were real people. -- Mike Huckabee
I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself. -- Mark Haddon
You will not mistake the newspaperman - looks like a big turtle - published a letter meant to embarrass me. -- George Hearst
A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts. -- Irving Berlin
If my husband cheated on me and embarrassed me like that, I will embarrass him more than he could ever imagine. -- Anna Benson
parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond. -- Danielle Monsch
I think the fact that you don't have to go to a class and embarrass yourself if you're not comfortable with your body. -- Carmen Electra
Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats. -- Umberto Eco
My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that. -- Adam Sandler
I always keep the weather in my pocket, so no matter where I go, I always have something to talk about. Sudden thunderstorms embarrass me. -- Jarod Kintz
I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later. -- Clay Aiken
You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them. -- Anna Kendrick
DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice. -- Ambrose Bierce
I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them. -- Ludwig Bemelmans
Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me. -- Gary Player
There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Joe Biden once again denied stories that he will be replaced on the ticket in 2012. He says he will continue to embarrass President Obama for another four years. -- Jay Leno
I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway. -- John Amaechi
I love going out to clubs. Granted, I don't get hammered or do anything to embarrass myself. I'd call myself wholesome... but it's not like I only drink milk. -- Carrie Underwood
I love going out to clubs. Granted, I don't get hammered or do anything to embarrass myself. I'd call myself wholesome but it's not like I only drink milk. -- Carrie Underwood
When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt. -- Irvine Welsh
It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language. -- Rob Delaney
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation. -- Glenn Close
Most new trainers agonize over the perfect workout, over-train virtually everyone and are the crazy purist idiots who embarrass themselves at restaurants trying to impress everyone with how clean they eat. -- Dan John
I never prepare a speech. I never think when I give a speech, except for "don't embarrass yourself or others", meaning "remember the names of the people you have to thank". -- Roger Ballen
No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary. -- Jean Rhys
We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action. -- Marian Wright Edelman
There are ways for what has been going on at that foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, there are ways that that can be exposed and embarrass and humiliate and all that. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles? -- Leonardo da Vinci
There are ways for what has been going on at that foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, there are ways that that can be exposed and embarrass and humiliate and all that. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do. -- Peg Bracken
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On stage you can group 200 people together and scare them or embarrass them or whatever. You can't do that on TV. You have to use the conventions, that's why Kevin (Turvey) works so well. -- Rik Mayall
It's been like therapy to be able to play music and not embarrass my children too much. They've come to a bunch of the shows. It's kind of cool. I'm glad they like it. -- Robert Longo
Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it. -- Joan Claybrook
Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those. -- Tom Rachman

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