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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. -- Dave Barry
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details. -- Andy Warhol
As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls. -- Rita Mae Brown
But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya. -- Christian Bale
Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist. -- Jane Campion
Every day, I have a most embarrassing moment. -- Steven Hill
Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing. -- Hugh Grant
It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing. -- Helen Suzman
I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing. -- Bruce Nauman
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done. -- Sam Ewing
I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing. -- Katie Holmes
If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing. -- Julie Andrews
It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid -- Sean Lennon
It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity. -- Nastassja Kinski
I still get a little nervous when talking to girls. Which is awful, and embarrassing, because I feel like I shouldn't. -- Josh Hutcherson
You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out. -- Janet Evanovich
I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch. -- Park Chan-wook
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family. -- Salman Rushdie
In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried. -- Alice Morse Earle
I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing. -- Silvia Colloca
If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today. -- Myriam Miedzian
What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them. -- Boy George
I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend. -- Bruce Nash
And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site. -- Gregg Easterbrook
It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields. -- David Douglass
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
On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing. -- Michael Stipe
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher. -- A. Scott Berg
My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about -- Anita Hill
When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing. -- Michael Jordan
Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing. -- Peaches Geldof
It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means. -- Daniel Clowes
Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it. -- Willie Aames
I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing. -- Regis Philbin
It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried. -- Woody Norris
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' -- Aldous Huxley
Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society. -- Kevin Whately
Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks -- Michael Hutchence
Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept. -- Gary Lineker
But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything. -- Ian Hamilton Finlay
It's almost embarrassing how much support I have. I mean, I always tell people I feel like I'm perfectly set up to have cancer. I have great health insurance, I have a savings account. I have work lined up. I have friends and family. I have the best doctors I can get. -- Tig Notaro
I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me. -- Emma Watson
The thing that drives me nuts is when I get stopped in a crowded place, and they look at me and say, 'Who are you?' I don't know if they're friends or fans, and I say, 'I'm Annabella Sciorra', and they say, 'What have you done?' So I start to give them my resume. It's so embarrassing. -- Annabella Sciorra
A whole generation of people that didn't know me from 'SNL' recognize me from 'Weeds' now. People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!' -- Kevin Nealon
My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing. -- Chloe Sevigny
One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me. -- Hugh Laurie
Beauty is embarrassing. -- Wayne White
How embarrassing to be human. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I watch so much television, it's embarrassing. -- Nina Arianda
There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions. -- Carl T. Rowan
Obama's not embarrassing. The country is embarrassing. -- Harvey Weinstein
I've been embarrassing myself since about birth. -- Phil Lester
How embarrassing it is to be human. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Well, it's embarrassing to be a star. -- Christian Bale
For three years, I had embarrassing haircuts. -- Chris Hemsworth
Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing -- Yoda
Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat. -- Tracy Letts
It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot. -- Bess Truman
Me + Love Songs on KOST=embarrassing car jam sesh. -- Joanna Garcia
My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next. -- Ted Danson
I love to see movies and just other embarrassing stuff. -- Emma Stone
My mom calls me 'baby face.' It's very embarrassing. -- Stephen Colletti
There aren't any embarrassing questions â?? just embarrassing answers. -- Carl T. Rowan
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them, -- Brian Eno
Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure... -- Ingmar Bergman
I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing. -- Daniel Clowes
It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons -- Jenny Holzer
Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know. -- Ray Dalio
In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing. -- Elliott Abrams
Ignorance is indeed bliss, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing. -- Ted Nugent
When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it. -- Charlotte Gainsbourg
The SOAP stack is generally regarded as an embarrassing failure these days. -- Tim Bray
The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films. -- Paul Newman
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It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying! -- Wendelin Van Draanen
I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause -- David Cook
It's sometimes easier to do the impossible than to do the embarrassing. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did. -- Marty Feldman
I try to write the most embarrassing thing I can think of. -- John Wieners
You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing. -- Jennifer Lawrence
It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty. -- Wayne White
I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now? -- Juliana Hatfield
You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing. -- Jake Roberts
It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating. -- Jessica Lange
Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business. -- Stacy Aumonier
Nothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father. -- Alex Pettyfer
The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation. -- Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
The man's [Bush] embarrassing. He's not my president and he never will be either. -- Julia Roberts
There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation. -- Robert Breault
It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing. -- Arthur Hiller
There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal. -- Michael Chabon
Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
I dont know if its embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music. -- Tony Oller
How often feelings are circular. How embarrassing to be embarrassed. How annoying to be annoyed. -- James Richardson
It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company. -- Tina Brown
It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession. -- Katharine Hepburn
I don't know if it's embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music. -- Tony Oller
I hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it's embarrassing since I've grown up. -- Brian Wilson
I have a really embarrassing reaction to horror films. I break out in a fever. -- Juliet Rylance
Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing. -- Jon McGregor
The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii) -- Michael Ben Zehabe
Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool. -- Jessica Brown Findlay
Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done. -- Earl Wilson
You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love? -- Carol Rifka Brunt
I feel like I'm being too Zen. I'm inhaling too much patchouli and incense. It's embarrassing. -- Jimmy Fallon
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing. -- M. C. Escher
I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version. -- Jason Ritter
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it! -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name. -- Shane Claiborne
Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots. -- F. Lee Bailey
It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List. -- Abbie Hoffman
Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful. -- Mahatma Gandhi
One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat -- Siegbert Tarrasch
Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame -- Miranda Hart
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. -- William Hazlitt
Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it. -- J. Cole

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