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A lot of awkward things happen in the night when people are sleep deprived, drink caffeine too late, drink alcohol too late, worked too late or slept four hours last night because they stayed up too late, the fundamental core and foundation of healthy dream life starts with healthy sleep. – Nirit Soffer-Dudek	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I would like to present my personal apologies for these remarks which absolutely do not reflect my thoughts, nor my consideration for the player he was and the coach he has become, i admit that I made awkward remarks which created a misunderstanding. Zidane knows the immense esteem I have for him, like all French people. – Le Graet	Found on CNN 1 year ago
PayPal is in an awkward kind of purgatory with John Rainey leaving. – Andrew Bauch	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The presentation ceremony was n’t what it could have been, i sat next to Roberto and did what I could to console him. There’s video of me patting him on the leg. I felt no elation, nothing like you ’d expect from winning the biggest tournament of your life. It was awkward. It was tragic for Roberto, but it was equally unfortunate for me. – Bob Goalby	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That led to some really awkward television that I'd like to have back if I could, the View's. – Brian Teta	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Her arms and legs were at an awkward angle, and I went into shock in that moment. – Cindy Sue Hunter	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Navigating money conversations with your significant other may be awkward, even when you're not expecting a baby, a good financial coach or planner can be helpful to ease the tension if every money conversation ends with an argument. – Deborah Meyer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We were under the very realistic possibility that once it comes out and goes back in, there’s a very good chance that could repeat and continue to happen, we certainly understand the risk and with the understanding that certainly with the slide yesterday, he just ended up in an awkward position like that, there was a chance of that possibly happening. – Jayce Tingler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think both Minister Boris Johnson and... Priti Patel and some other government MPs did misjudge the situation right from the start, but certainly, in as much as The Government's woken a few people up who perhaps didn't realize that Priti Patel has said this, that does make things a little bit more awkward for The Government than perhaps they were before. – Tim Bale	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We shook hands and it felt really awkward, it sounds strange to say that, but I haven't shaken hands for over a year with anybody, you know, and that's a normal thing for us to do. – Bret Adams	Found on CNN 2 years ago
That awkward moment you realize Docker is an IFrame. This is worse than that time I realized MMU's were NAT's. – Dan Kaminsky	added by jaume 2 years ago
Questions like that get us to a deeper place, but aren't so personal that they cross the lines of putting people in an awkward position. – Susan McPherson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
That's one of the things, the roles that our job can do is set expectations so that you don't have that awkward moment of like, someone's assuming it's a 10 and someone's assuming it's a one with the intensity [ of a scene ], it's making sure that we're all agreeing on the same page. – Phoebe Dynevor	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It makes you feel, quite frankly, awkward, you don't want to think of yourself as benefiting from something so tremendously terrible for the world. – Dan Springer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In spite of the stereotype of the socially awkward pale gamer, Video Games are a good way to socially connect. – Rachel Kowert	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It hit me the most when I heard the news that the games would have no spectators, it feels a little awkward when I think about how quiet the game is going to be since it's just us players. It'll feel like it's not a competition. – Choi Hye-jin	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I just recently did a Bill Withers tribute and that was way more awkward than I thought. – Anthony David -LRB- @anthonydavidatl -RRB-	Found on CNN 4 years ago
But you have to realize that the reason why I was treating Michael Jordan like that is because I needed Michael Jordan to be tough in the playoffs and were facing the Indianas and Miamis and New Yorks in the Eastern Conference. Michael Jordan needed to be tough and I needed to know that I could count on Michael Jordan. And those are the kind of things where people see me acting the way I acted in practice, theyre not going to understand it. I said to Michael Jordan, Thats great because this is an opportunity. We have 10 hours here to peel back the onion and have you articulate all the things you just articulated to me. EX-NBA CHAMPION RECALLS RUBBING MICHAEL JORDAN FOR GOOD LUCK BEFORE GAME : I THOUGHT IT WAS AWKWARD Jordan said in one of the episodes that winning has a price, according to The Athletic. He said if a certain standard wasnt being met by one of his teammates, he would step in and explain to the person what was going on And leadership has a price, Michael Jordan reportedly says. So I pulled people along when they didnt want to be pulled. I challenged people when they didnt want to be challenged. And I earned that right because my teammates who came after me didnt endure all the things that I endured. Once you joined the team, you lived at a certain standard that I played the game. And I wasnt going to take any less. Now, if that means I had to go in there and get in your ass a little bit, then I did that. You ask all my teammates. The one thing about Michael Jordan was Michael Jordan never asked me to do something that Michael Jordan didnt fking do. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON Michael Jordan said people may perceive Michael Jordan as a tyrant but thats because nobody has had as much sustainable success as Michael Jordan did. Look, I dont have to do this. – Michael Jordan	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We are all in this socially awkward situation together. – Peter Arvai	Found on CNN 4 years ago
What Mr Assange seems to defend by freedom of speech is not the publication of the classified materials but the publication of the names of the sources, the names of people who had put themselves at risk to assist the United States and its allies, he was not charged with the disclosure of embarrassing or awkward information the government would rather not have disclosed. – The United States ' lawyer	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
He's verbal, but he doesn't like to talk, just making and keeping conversations is something that's really awkward for him, and it's hard for him to initiate that. – Juliana Fetherman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I wanted to bring my mom, but I couldn't because anyone I stand next to, they say I'm dating, and that would just be awkward. – Brad Pitt	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think, Rico [ Rodriguez [, Nolan and I changed a lot over 11 years... I especially hated the year I had braces, i do have to say, it was a really awkward year for me because I also went through puberty that summer... once we wrapped, I had other things. – Ariel Winter	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Brothers Osbourne power outage is the most awkward musical technical issue since Ashley Simpson SNL hoedown. – Melissa Chase	Found on CNN 4 years ago

A lot of awkward things happen in the night when people are sleep deprived, drink caffeine too late, drink alcohol too late, worked too late or slept four hours last night because they stayed up too late, the fundamental core and foundation of healthy dream life starts with healthy sleep.

– Nirit Soffer-Dudek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would like to present my personal apologies for these remarks which absolutely do not reflect my thoughts, nor my consideration for the player he was and the coach he has become, i admit that I made awkward remarks which created a misunderstanding. Zidane knows the immense esteem I have for him, like all French people.

– Le Graet

Found on CNN
1 year ago

PayPal is in an awkward kind of purgatory with John Rainey leaving.

– Andrew Bauch

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The presentation ceremony was n’t what it could have been, i sat next to Roberto and did what I could to console him. There’s video of me patting him on the leg. I felt no elation, nothing like you ’d expect from winning the biggest tournament of your life. It was awkward. It was tragic for Roberto, but it was equally unfortunate for me.

– Bob Goalby

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That led to some really awkward television that I'd like to have back if I could, the View's.

– Brian Teta

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Her arms and legs were at an awkward angle, and I went into shock in that moment.

– Cindy Sue Hunter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Navigating money conversations with your significant other may be awkward, even when you're not expecting a baby, a good financial coach or planner can be helpful to ease the tension if every money conversation ends with an argument.

– Deborah Meyer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We were under the very realistic possibility that once it comes out and goes back in, there’s a very good chance that could repeat and continue to happen, we certainly understand the risk and with the understanding that certainly with the slide yesterday, he just ended up in an awkward position like that, there was a chance of that possibly happening.

– Jayce Tingler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think both Minister Boris Johnson and... Priti Patel and some other government MPs did misjudge the situation right from the start, but certainly, in as much as The Government's woken a few people up who perhaps didn't realize that Priti Patel has said this, that does make things a little bit more awkward for The Government than perhaps they were before.

– Tim Bale

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We shook hands and it felt really awkward, it sounds strange to say that, but I haven't shaken hands for over a year with anybody, you know, and that's a normal thing for us to do.

– Bret Adams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That awkward moment you realize Docker is an IFrame. This is worse than that time I realized MMU's were NAT's.

– Dan Kaminsky

added by jaume
2 years ago

Questions like that get us to a deeper place, but aren't so personal that they cross the lines of putting people in an awkward position.

– Susan McPherson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

That's one of the things, the roles that our job can do is set expectations so that you don't have that awkward moment of like, someone's assuming it's a 10 and someone's assuming it's a one with the intensity [ of a scene ], it's making sure that we're all agreeing on the same page.

– Phoebe Dynevor

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It makes you feel, quite frankly, awkward, you don't want to think of yourself as benefiting from something so tremendously terrible for the world.

– Dan Springer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In spite of the stereotype of the socially awkward pale gamer, Video Games are a good way to socially connect.

– Rachel Kowert

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It hit me the most when I heard the news that the games would have no spectators, it feels a little awkward when I think about how quiet the game is going to be since it's just us players. It'll feel like it's not a competition.

– Choi Hye-jin

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I just recently did a Bill Withers tribute and that was way more awkward than I thought.

– Anthony David -LRB- @anthonydavidatl -RRB-

Found on CNN
4 years ago

But you have to realize that the reason why I was treating Michael Jordan like that is because I needed Michael Jordan to be tough in the playoffs and were facing the Indianas and Miamis and New Yorks in the Eastern Conference. Michael Jordan needed to be tough and I needed to know that I could count on Michael Jordan. And those are the kind of things where people see me acting the way I acted in practice, theyre not going to understand it. I said to Michael Jordan, Thats great because this is an opportunity. We have 10 hours here to peel back the onion and have you articulate all the things you just articulated to me. EX-NBA CHAMPION RECALLS RUBBING MICHAEL JORDAN FOR GOOD LUCK BEFORE GAME : I THOUGHT IT WAS AWKWARD Jordan said in one of the episodes that winning has a price, according to The Athletic. He said if a certain standard wasnt being met by one of his teammates, he would step in and explain to the person what was going on And leadership has a price, Michael Jordan reportedly says. So I pulled people along when they didnt want to be pulled. I challenged people when they didnt want to be challenged. And I earned that right because my teammates who came after me didnt endure all the things that I endured. Once you joined the team, you lived at a certain standard that I played the game. And I wasnt going to take any less. Now, if that means I had to go in there and get in your ass a little bit, then I did that. You ask all my teammates. The one thing about Michael Jordan was Michael Jordan never asked me to do something that Michael Jordan didnt fking do. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON Michael Jordan said people may perceive Michael Jordan as a tyrant but thats because nobody has had as much sustainable success as Michael Jordan did. Look, I dont have to do this.

– Michael Jordan

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We are all in this socially awkward situation together.

– Peter Arvai

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What Mr Assange seems to defend by freedom of speech is not the publication of the classified materials but the publication of the names of the sources, the names of people who had put themselves at risk to assist the United States and its allies, he was not charged with the disclosure of embarrassing or awkward information the government would rather not have disclosed.

– The United States ' lawyer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

He's verbal, but he doesn't like to talk, just making and keeping conversations is something that's really awkward for him, and it's hard for him to initiate that.

– Juliana Fetherman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I wanted to bring my mom, but I couldn't because anyone I stand next to, they say I'm dating, and that would just be awkward.

– Brad Pitt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think, Rico [ Rodriguez [, Nolan and I changed a lot over 11 years... I especially hated the year I had braces, i do have to say, it was a really awkward year for me because I also went through puberty that summer... once we wrapped, I had other things.

– Ariel Winter

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Brothers Osbourne power outage is the most awkward musical technical issue since Ashley Simpson SNL hoedown.

– Melissa Chase

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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