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• It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Stupid, Thinking

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?

  Tina Weymouth

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• I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

  Henry Rollins

  Mean, Talking, Appreciate

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• There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

  Elliott Gould

  Conceited, Youth, Machinery

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• The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Strong, Stupid, Branches

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• I did feel Dr. Cox, the character that I was auditioning for, was too similar to the head of the hospital. He was too arrogant and mean. I approached him kind of like I had a miniature Max sitting on my shoulder. I pictured Max saying, "This guy has got to give love every once in a while. He has to!" I knew there had to be tiny little windows of redemption.

  John C. McGinley

  Character, Mean, Giving

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• Of course [I believe in aliens]. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?

  Tom Cruise

  Believe, Aliens, Courses

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• Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Self, Doe

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.268

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• If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

  Colin Powell

  Arms, Complacency, Scared

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• The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational Love, Demand, Presumption

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• You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

  Ruben Studdard

  Jobs, Good Job, Be Confident

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• I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.

  Lennox Lewis

  Character, Boxing, Cartoon

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• It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Moving, Writing

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, October 13, 2011.

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• The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Men, Generosity, Envy

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• Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Self, Arrogance

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

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• I would never be so arrogant to think that someone should model their life after me. But the idea of possibility the idea that I get to live my dreams out in public, hopefully will show to other folks that it's possible. So I prefer the term 'possibility model' to 'role model.'

  Laverne Cox

  Dream, Thinking, Ideas

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• We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

  Noel Gallagher

  Believe, Oasis, Band

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

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• Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.

  Ben Harper

  Humble, Guy, May

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• The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Party, Organization, America

  The New York Times, March 31, 1974.

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• Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Mistake

  "Courts open the talent floodgates" by Michael Butcher and Simon Evans, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 1999.

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• I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.

  Alberto Tomba

  Motivational, Athlete, Winning

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• It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast

  Jeri Ryan

  Thinking, Space, Might

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• My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Years, Age

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Obama administration didn't have one person who had ever worked in business. Not one Obama cabinet member had ever seriously had a job, run a company, met a payroll in the American economy. And, as such, no way of understanding how business is done, from negotiations to any other aspect of it. In fact, people in Obama's cabinet were arrogant and condescending and looking down on those people as a bunch of shysters and a bunch of cheats and people that kill their customers and they're destroying the planet.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Jobs, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

  Andrew Vachss

  Faith, Believe, Years

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