"You either expect to win, so when you do win, you're relieved instead of excited and if you lose instead of being motivated, you're embarrassed."

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I think that sometimes people [who overreact or lash out] will hang on to their point just because they're so embarrassed that they made it. They won't set it down because they are the authors of these [disproportionate responses] and they have a lot to be embarrassed about.

— Margaret Cho