Arrogant Quotes - Page 23

• I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

  Peter Greenaway

  Film

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• Republicans should save the clip of Jonathan Gruber and run it over and over again in the run-up to the 2016 election. This attitude that government is better at making decisions than you are because you are too stupid to know what is good for you is a hallmark of patronizing, arrogant and condescending liberalism.

  Cal Thomas

  Running, Attitude, Stupid

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• I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there.

  Will Smith

  Believe, Thinking, Would Be

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• "I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

  Winston Churchill

  War, Blood, Sweat

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished resources, but of potentially catastrophic climate change. It comes from an arrogant refusal by a modern consumerist society to accept limits on its desires. Kirk's idea of the "eternal society" evaporates before the insatiable demands of the Everlasting Now.

  Rod Dreher

  Ideas, Desire, Limits

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• Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

  David Whyte

  Bird, Waiting, Cooking

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.51, Penguin

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• I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

  Al McGuire

  Team, Personality, Want

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• '-mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent -' said Severus. 'You see what you expect to see, Severus.' said Dumbledore.

  J. K. Rowling

  Father, Life Lesson, Attention

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• Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independent, Men, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

  Paulo Coelho

  Music, Eye, People

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• Who are we to be so arrogant as to say 'now WE know what's best, THAT era was full of daft ideas' etc. There will be plenty things we take as normal and good now that future generations will look back at in horror or amusement.

  Sean Michael Wilson

  Ideas, Generations, Looks

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or 12 years previous to our arriving [at Bernard's Leach studio]. And we, being, I guess you would say young, arrogant Americans, thought that we ought to be able to somehow express ourselves a little bit more in the daily work of the pottery.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Years, Clay, Arriving

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I think part of our faults as humans is that we are very arrogant and I think we have taken many things for granted because of the way European have taken us, which is a failure and for them to totally come out and accept is a failure.

  Femi Kuti

  Taken, Thinking, Granted

  Source: www.premiumtimesng.com

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• Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of Athene, the archaic, marble serpent, the arrogant selfish head of the Acropolis Apollo.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Beauty, Selfish, Expression

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.327, New Directions Publishing

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• Look, first of all, the climate is changing. I don't think the science is clear what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted. And for the people to say the science is decided on, this is just really arrogant, to be honest with you, it's this intellectual arrogance that now you can't even have a conversation about it. The climate is changing, and we need to adapt to that reality.

  Barack Obama

  Science, Reality, Men

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• This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Humble, Sadness

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't think the science is clear of what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted, for the people to say the science is decided on this is really arrogant, to be honest with you.

  Jeb Bush

  Science, Men, Thinking

  "Jeb Bush rails against 'intellectual arrogance' in climate change debate" by Ashley Killough, edition.cnn.com. May 21, 2015.

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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.

  Selena

  People, Assuming, Equal

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• People do complain about the way I act on stage... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Self, People

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• The only thing I wish I could figure out is how I got misunderstood regarding the type of person I really am and what I accomplished.

  Rickey Henderson

  Cocky, Mean, Games

  "Rickey rules". Interview with Dennis Manoloff, www.cleveland.com. July 25, 2009.

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• Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction.

  Prince Charles

  Country, Technology, Weather

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• How self-centered, how arrogant... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal. When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches... I was a commodity cheese-atarian.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kids, Self, Long

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• Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like a long sigh, like a person breathing easily, freely. Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring - sustained note of power and joy. We turn from the lights of the city; we pivot on a dark wing; we roar over the earth. The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Dark, Light, Climbing

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• It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Bulls, Care, Aviation

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• What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.

  Lawrence Bender

  Real, Inspiration, Creativity

  "On a Bender". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. March 1, 1998.

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