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I'd turned out to be a skinny little kid. I still only weighed about nine pounds when I was 15, so I didn't live up to my father's expectations. He felt embarrassed by it, so it embarrassed me too.

Quote by Peter Fonda

After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed.

Quote by Kevin Bacon

The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole...

Quote by Douglas Adams about end, haven, moment, people

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about nation, people

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

Quote by Agatha Christie about attitude, attention

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

Quote by Julie Christie about celebrity, regret, people

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.

Quote by Boy George about being, things, people

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Quote by Henry Ford about worry, affair

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about affair

I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures.

Quote by Eva Herzigova

A love will tell you they love you endlessly. A true love will tell everyone else they love you endlessly despite the embarrassment factor.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love

If you bring your voodoo doll/adult magazine or embarrassing cream to work your boss will find it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about heads, work

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement, and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be...

Quote by Margaret Oliphant about thinking, nothing, things, world, life

It's so embarrassing watching yourself back then, those awful hairstyles we had and those terrible concord collars and all that sort of thing.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about concord, things

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the...

Quote by James Payn about excess, difficulties, literary critic, writing, man, being

I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass...

Quote by Elizabeth Pena about career, destruction, god

Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.

Quote by John Perkins about opinion

Hypocrisy is not just a fault, as the moralist writers think, but also a way to conserve your energy and avoid embarrassing situations. Madam Voltaire, 1979

Quote by Teodor Mazilu about hypocrisy, writers