Arrogant Quotes - Page 21

• I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

  Jonah Hill

  Sound, Compare, Print

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the ­extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Power, Insomnia, Insecurity

  Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• How can creativity be bad? You can have, "I liked it" or "I didn't like it," but, in the end, it's an individual experience. How can you even begin to define that? I find that sometimes extremely arrogant and counter-productive.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Creativity, Sometimes, Individual

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Never be arrogant or abrasive. Treat your opponent respectfully if they really and truly believe they are right.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Opponents, Treats

  "Conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall: Empathizing With Animals And Touching People's Hearts". Interview with Lauren Kearney, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

  Bruce Sterling

  Inquiry, Spirit, Geek

  "Bruce Sterling: Notes from the Near Future". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 10, 2012.

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• [Derek] Shackleton was a man who - it's probably arrogant to say it - but he was a little bit like me. He undertook incredible dangers and carried on over the sea and over the ice and all the rest of it. He was a remarkable man.

  Edmund Hillary

  Men, Ice, Sea

  Source: www.listener.co.nz

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• I guess I just would never be so arrogant as to think that anybody would even recognize me. I didn't even think about it.

  Brady Corbet

  Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In no way would I ever assume when I meet some girl that she wants to sleep with me; that doesn't enter my mind. I think somebody who did assume that would be such an insufferably arrogant person that you couldn't be around him.

  Rob Lowe

  Girl, Sleep, Thinking

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• So much of the hubris that surrounded conceptual art in the 1950s through '70s was that it had this arrogant presupposition that pointing in and of itself was a creative act. It never rigorously politically and socially analyzed the fact that the luxury to point is something that so many people throughout the world don't have.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Luxury, People

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Fashion, Hate, Fighting

  "Church's Doctrine". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2007.

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• I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.

  Russell Means

  Writing, Alive, About Yourself

  "HERB CAEN -- Caennecting the Dots" by Herb Caen, www.sfgate.com. January 31, 1996.

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• Now they are empty, Ramon replied with a shrug of broad, muscled shoulders on his six-foot-three-inch frame....For the first time, a glint of humor touched Ramon Galverra's finely sculpted mouth and arrogant dark eyes.

  Judith McNaught

  Eye, Dark, Feet

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Tender Triumph”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Gratitude, Needs, Way

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.107, Harmony

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• "Connected" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous... I don't doubt that instant communication has been good for business, even for the publishing business, but it has done nothing for literature, and might even have harmed it. In many ways connection has been disastrous. We have confused information (of which there is too much) with ideas (of which there are too few). I found out much more about the world and myself by being unconnected.

  Paul Theroux

  Confused, Communication, Ideas

  "Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings". Book by Paul Theroux, 2000.

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• Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.

  Michel Faber

  Real, Character, Writing

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• Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world.

  James Patterson

  America, Looks, World

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  Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world

  Patrick Stump

  Selfish, World, More Time

  Twitter post from May 15, 2013

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• People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.

  Watchman Nee

  People, Secret, Lazy

  Watchman Nee (1982). “The Better Covenant”, p.40, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Thinking, Matter, Action

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2008). “Lost and Found: A Novel”, Little, Brown

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• The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.

  Gary L. Francione

  Death, Fashion, Ideas

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• If there's anything more arrogant than a Marine on a horse, it's one in a plane.

  William Overgard

  Horse, Marine, Planes

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• There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.

  Jan Morris

  Vegas, Cities, Mountain

  Jan Morris (1985). “Journeys”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or even "crazy."

  John Eliot

  Crazy, Views, Achievement

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.71, Diversion Books

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• To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

  Chris Evert

  Selfish, Tunnels, Tennis

  "Billie Jean King and Chris Evert reminisce about tennis careers". Interview with Liz Clarke, www.washingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring

  Red Auerbach

  Pride, Caring, Talking

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