Showing Off Quotes - Page 7

• People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing with me. That's the difference between the kind of musician I like to work with and singing with a musician who thinks he has to accompany me. That is so annoying I cannot tell you.

  Helen Merrill

  Music, Thinking, Differences

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• I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.

  Samantha Morton

  Actors, Boring, Shows

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• He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

  Rick Riordan

  College, Years, Evil

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.

  Honeysuckle Weeks

  Grateful, Parent, Acting

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• I spent nearly two hours deciding on an outfit that would look as if the subject of clothing had never crossed my mind, but would in fact show off my best features and miraculously hide the extra pounds.

  Rosanne Cash

  Two, Clothes, Mind

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• Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

  Beverly Cleary

  School, Thinking, Two

  Beverly Cleary, Paul O. Zelinsky (1995). “Strider”

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• Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody ever guessed until molecular data was looked at. The closest relatives of whales are hippopotamuses, even closer than any other cloven-hoofed animals.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Thinking, Whales

  Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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• I just get excited doing shows. Off stage I am actually very feeble and must be spoon-fed because my hands are too brittle.

  Dane Cook

  Hands, Spoons, Excited

  "Dane Cook Interview". Interview with McClain Johnson, mcclainjohnson.com.

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• First of all, I don't think they have to go that high. That is not necessary, to be that high in the air. I think they're showing off, those pilots. I think we could just go really fast just a few feet off the ground. Just high enough to miss the animals.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Animal, Thinking, Air

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• My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.

  Wyclef Jean

  Father, School, One Day

  "Singer-songwriter-activist Wyclef Jean". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. September 25, 2012.

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• For instance, in group therapy, I'll have people stand up, show off, give a speech about themselves as though they've just died and have to give a eulogy. Even with this explicit permission - even an order - to say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

  Nancy Friday

  Nice, Clothes, Order

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• I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.

  Jane Fonda

  Flesh, Arms, Vain

  Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 4, 2011.

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• all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Country, Children, Ideas

  Olivia de Havilland (2016). “Every Frenchman Has One”, p.31, Crown Archetype

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• I want to show off how beautiful my subjects are, whether its a cheetah or a live girl or two of them together.

  Bunny Yeager

  Beautiful, Girl, Two

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• When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Writing, Artist, Views

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Art, Thinking, People

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

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• And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

  Scott Hamilton

  Skating, Attention, Facts

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• I wanted to be a comedian, I wanted people to laugh at what I was saying, not to be staring at my boobs or wearing a skirt and show off my ... I just didn't think that that was the best way to get taken seriously in that world.

  Chelsea Handler

  Taken, Thinking, Laughing

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• Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Reading, Self

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes, and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Vegetables, Light, Way

  "The new vegetarian" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2008.

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• I don't think you necessarily need to show off your stomach and boobs to be sexy. I'm just not attracted to that type of dressing.

  Ashley Olsen

  Sexy, Thinking, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a very smug show-off at heart. I'm altogether too pleased with myself. The big boost for me is to be able to turn out something that I think is pretty marvelous, like 'Lost Girls.' I'm not in it for money, I'm just in it for the glory.

  Alan Moore

  Heart, Thinking, Able

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

  Carrie Fisher

  Difficult Situations, Survivor, Want

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• What I became a comedian for was to get my art out. To get some of these feelings and things I had on my chest out. I don't care if people believe them, listen to them, change their ways, or think, or any of that kind of crap. I'm interested in showing off. I'm the same kid from sixth grade who stood up and said "watch this."

  George Carlin

  Art, Believe, Kids

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• And also, as a consumer now, it's weird that when I used to go to a book signing I would leave with a stack of pamphlets people had made to show off their work, and now I just leave with business cards where people have the URL to their websites.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, People, Cards

  Source: therumpus.net

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