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“I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable. For years, fashion wasn't fashionable. Today fashion is so fashionable that it's almost embarrassing to say you're part of fashion. All the parodies of it. All the dreadful magazines. That has destroyed it as well, because everybody thinks fashion is attainable.”

Thinking Years Wells Problem Today Fashion Destroyed Magazines Embarrassing Fashionable Parody

Author:Louise Wilson

“The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.”

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Author:James Fallows

“[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.”

Self Lord Return Queens Embarrassing Exile Oxford Fart Flatulence

Author:Elizabeth I

“Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.”

May Assumption Disability Distress Embarrassing

Author:Mallory Ortberg

“After you die, your body is just there. Isn't it kind of embarrassing that your body is going to be there and you have no say or control over it? Somebody's going to have to deal with it. I've always respected people who kill themselves and find a way to get rid of the body. Very clean. Lost at sea. I can see why they do that. There's nothing left.”

People Way Kind I Can Body Dies Lost Left Deals Sea Clean Your Body Over It Embarrassing Lost At Sea

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to have some sort of value. Or it only has some kind of value to me, if it's something really personal. It has to mean something to me. I guess it is a little uncomfortable, or it's a little embarrassing sometimes, to know that stuff that honest is out there. But, when I hand off the thing, when it's totally done and mastered and sent, I kinda feel like it doesn't belong to me anymore.”

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Author:Panda Bear

“It was shameful and embarrassing that there were two years in a row without a single actor of color nominated. That's insane.”

Years Two Actors Color Insane Two Years Embarrassing Shameful

Author:Matt Damon

“The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees. I don't know if you remember the Bee Gees. My mom took me. I was little. But my mom was a big disco fan, and - my mom took me to the Bee Gees. Looking back now, it's pretty embarrassing if your first concert was with your mom.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Littles Bigs Remember Fans Mom My Mom Concerts Bees Looking Back Embarrassing Your Mom Disco Bee Gees

Author:Rob Huebel

“There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."”

Thinking Trying Next Written Smart Absurd Next Day Embarrassing Being Smart Nausea

Author:Lou Doillon

“The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.”

Feels Enough Problem Embarrassing

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“My job was basically to look at a good friend completely naked and rub lotion on her back. I was naked too, but I got to put a towel on almost immediately. So I was like, "Well, this is going to be embarrassing, but it's also going to be kinda awesome."”

Wells Looks Jobs Naked Good Friend Embarrassing Towels Lotion

Author:Rob Corddry

“I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.”

Want Care Honest Don't Care Being Honest I Don't Care Scream Swear Embarrassing Don't Care Anymore I Don't Care Anymore

Author:Angel Olsen

“When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.”

Fighting Weakness Embarrassing

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“It's not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It's odd, very vulnerable, and slightly embarrassing to be standing and singing and playing music in front of a bunch of strangers.”

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Author:Matt Berninger

“I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets? The embarrassing truth of the matter was that I was being chosen because Yale University had some peculiar idea about what my skin color or ethnicity signified.”

“We made our debut in Japan about few years ago and when we went on a morning show there to promote our album, I did a brief interview in Japanese using simple expressions such as "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu." But one of the members of our group said, "Stay quiet if you can't speak Japanese! It's embarrassing!" So that's when I told myself that I'd show how good I am by studying Japanese hard.”

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Author:Seungri

“Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster than your parents. People came to you for help with such things. So you took accounting and eventually became a tax auditor for the IRS. What an embarrassing job, right? You feel you should be writing poetry or doing aviation mechanics or whatever. But then you realize that tax collecting can be a calling too.”

“I'm sure there are people who say like, "I was wearing weird emo eyeliner," but there's something pretty embarrassing about the jazz phase.”

People Jazz Phases Embarrassing Emo Eyeliner

Author:Nick Kroll

“You think you're going to be on TV a year out of college and you're not. Then you tell people and it's embarrassing. And then it's not a big deal at all.”

People Thinking Years Bigs Deals College Tvs Embarrassing Big Deal

Author:Nick Kroll

“The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing curse of apathy and start demanding constitutional accountability from our elected employees. How radically non-sheep of me.”

People Should Heart Government Hell Media Inspire Abuse Corruption Curse Employee Accountability Apathy Sheep Embarrassing Abuse Of Power Runaway Criminality

Author:Ted Nugent

“The internet makes it much easier for politicians to communicate directly with voters - think of the interest when David [Cameron] launched WebCameron, or Tony Blair's rather embarrassing attempt to catch up on YouTube.”

Thinking Interest Internet Politician Easier Communicate Voters Embarrassing Youtube Blair

Author:Theresa May

“A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and I think that's what we need to change.”

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Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.”

Done Christian Jesus Names Reputation Survived Embarrassing

Author:Shane Claiborne

“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.”

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Author:Michael Jordan

“I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.”

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Author:Dakota Fanning

“The only time I feel pressured is when some woman's husband comes over and says, "Will you go ask my wife to dance? She's a great dancer and would just love to dance with you."Suddenly there's a crowd of people standing around us and they expect that they're about to see Fred and Ginger. Here the woman and I have just met, and these people think that it's showtime. That is the only time I think it is really embarrassing.”

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Author:Gene Kelly

“If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.”

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Author:David Brooks

“Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.”

Lawyer Unhappy Embarrassing Knots

Author:F. Lee Bailey

“I have big feet. Do you know how embarrassing it is when you ask for a shoe and they look at you like, "No, we don't make these heels for Bigfoot, sorry."”

Knows Looks Bigs Asks Know How Feet Sorry Shoes Do You Know Heels Embarrassing Bigfoot

Author:Margot Robbie

“No matter how much I'm on and people are loving me, there's always some like, and it's usually a woman too, in the audience rolling her eyes, "Oh Wayne, you're embarrassing yourself." There's always someone like that.”

People Matter Eye Audience Rolling Her Eyes Embarrassing Wayne Loving Me

Author:Wayne White

“When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in.”

Beautiful Emotion Situation Naked Embarrassing Something Beautiful

Author:Wayne White

“It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.”

Would Be Introducing Embarrassing

Author:Wayne White

“If you don't respect each other and let it lie, it can be embarrassing or really frustrating.”

Ifs Lying Embarrassing Frustrating Respect Each Other

Author:Jenny Slate

“When I was Elvira, it was probably the phase of my hair getting too high. I thought that if really high hair was good, then really higher hair was even better. So I just started having my hair get higher and higher. In some of the pictures, we had to cut off the picture because it was like Marge Simpson. So that was embarrassing. The wig phase.”

Ifs Cutting Hair Higher Phases Embarrassing Getting High Wigs

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“When I was a kid... I don't know which was more embarrassing, when I was really into The Beatles or when I was a hippie.”

Knows Kids Embarrassing Hippie

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“I watch so much television, it's embarrassing.”

Watches Television Embarrassing

Author:Nina Arianda

“Look, the bottom line is, folks: They [Democrats] are unified. Their single objective is taking us out. We do not have that. Look at what's happening on our side. I mean, it's atrocious. It is actually embarrassing.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If you have a disease and suddenly start getting ads for cures for that disease and it's an embarrassing disease - all that kind of stuff it just gets into that zone of autonomy or privacy where you feel a sense of freedom to be who you want to be.”

Ifs Want Feels Kind Stuff Disease Cures Privacy Zone Ads Embarrassing Autonomy

Author:Tim Wu

“The Internet, you know, 10 or 15 years ago sort of felt like the wild West. You could go out there and do anything and search for things, and, you know, find out about stuff. Now always in the back of my mind, you know, whether it's email or whatever else, it's like, well, is this going to show up somewhere? Is someone going to keep track of this and, you know, know I was searching for - maybe it's an embarrassing disease, maybe it's a weird hobby?”

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Author:Tim Wu

“What I hate is when something I've done is replaced by something better than what I've done. It's really embarrassing.”

Done Hate I Hate Replaced Embarrassing Something Better

Author:Paula Scher

“There are a lot of words that I knew first as a reader, and I never put the pieces together in my brain. The word segue I thought was pronounced "seeg," I think until I went to college, which is horribly embarrassing.”

Thinking Firsts Together Brain Pieces College Reader Embarrassing

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical. I wouldn't wear makeup, and I didn't like to let boys open the door for me because I felt like it was sexist. My heart was in the right place, but I was such a tiny dictator about it. It's embarrassing to me now because I was so rigid. It's such a rigid way of looking at the world. There's something very young about that mind-set.”

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Author:Zoe Kazan

“I think reality television, unless it's inspirational, which it very rarely is, I think it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing state of affairs that we're in.”

Thinking States Reality Television Affair Embarrassing Reality Television

Author:Chelsea Handler

“Having worked my a - off over here for the last 10 years really hard, really f - ing hard, to see that unfolding every Tuesday and then watching the interviews, and the Megyn Kelly ... It's just extraordinary. It's quite a horrible situation because something needs to happen to stop this thing [Donald Trump] from becoming one of the most embarrassing scenarios ever in the history of politics.”

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Author:Gordon Ramsay

“I'm sometimes asked about my productivity, which I find a bit embarrassing to be honest. I don't really have a particularly interesting answer to this question.”

Sometimes Bits Answers Interesting Honest Productivity Being Honest Embarrassing

Author:Oliver D. Crisp

“I love to see movies and just other embarrassing stuff.”

Stuff Embarrassing

Author:Emma Stone

“I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.”

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Author:Anna Kendrick

“The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing self-inflicted curse of apathy and start demanding Constitutional accountability from our elected employees.”

People Should Heart Self Government Hell Media Inspire Abuse Corruption Curse Employee Accountability Apathy Embarrassing Abuse Of Power Runaway Criminality Self Inflicted

Author:Ted Nugent

“It's up to us to make the accommodations for all sorts of different travel scenarios. It's amazing how many companies aren't really in tune to the needs of different travelers. There's just so many embarrassing situations that you go through when you travel. You have to have a sense of humor about it and take it in stride. My whole approach is to embrace spontaneity.”

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Author:Zach Anner

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