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• Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

  Gavin Bryars

  Men, Skills, Ideas

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.

  Leslie Caron

  Hate, Arrogant Person, Trying

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• I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.

  Hermann Hesse

  Thinking, Conceited, Agony

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• Being an arrogant braggart just doesn’t work for me. (Devyn) You should try it. It really does grow on you, trust me. (Adron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Trying, Doe, Trust Me

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice”, p.1124, Macmillan

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• I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I should be pleased to have the part.

  Timberlake Wertenbaker

  Thinking, Years, People

  Timberlake Wertenbaker (2002). “Plays”

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• I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.

  LL Cool J

  Doe, Disrespectful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What I don’t like are arrogant people. We’re all equal. I don’t like it when a person assumes to be better. It angers me a little. There are a lot of people like that, but the world keeps turning. I also don’t like lies. I’m very honest. I’m always going to tell the truth. I don’t lie. I treat my friends the way I want to be treated.

  Selena

  Lying, People, World

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• I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kids, Controversial, Figures

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• The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

  Walter Gropius

  Artist, Class, Together

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• Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

  Isaac Asimov

  Knowledge, Science, Arrogance

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• America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

  Garry Trudeau

  Country, America, Arrogance

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• A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Ideas, Knowing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. April 2001.

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• Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.

  Antonio Porchia

  Life, Believe, Trying

  "Voces". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

  Wes Fesler

  Arrogance, Ignorant, Moments

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• To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

  Samuel Johnson

  Arrogance, Unhappy, Privilege

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.32

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• He needs to get a hard slap of reality in the face every once in a while. He has an arrogant side.

  Robbie Savage

  Reality, Presidential, Needs

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• Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He's doing.

  Barbara Cameron

  Christian, Inspiration, Worry

  Barbara Cameron (2011). “A Time to Heal”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It's simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Yoga, Reality, Feel Good

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where he inwardly hated, not hesitating to kiss whom he thought to kill.

  Richard III of England

  Character, Heart, Kissing

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• Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Eating Meat, Animal Rights, Peta

  "Washington City Paper" Newspaper, December 20, 1985.

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• There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Leader, Want, Overbearing

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• The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Light, Climbing, Wind

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