Arrogant Quotes - Page 5

• I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so.

  Judge Reinhold

  Reputation, Spoiled, Difficult

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• I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying now is not unconditional, it is just a hypothesis," and so on. It really is a most arrogant position. I think that the only way to be honest and expose yourself to criticism is to state clearly and dogmatically where you are. You must take the risk and have a position.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Believe, Commitment, Cutting

  "Conversations with Žižek". Book by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly, 2004.

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• Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Arrogance, Scholarship

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• I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media attention.

  Eric Dickerson

  Football, Thinking, Media

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• The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to sip nectar. The flower feeds its body while for me the colours and shapes and scents of flowers feed my heart. But how arrogant of me to assume that the butterfly does not feel its miniscule heart also soar for no reason other than touching and being touched by beauty!

  Densey Clyne

  Beauty, Flower, Butterfly

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• Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

  Rickey Henderson

  Cocky, Mean, Games

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• I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Sleep, Thinking

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• Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant.

  Tsukahara Bokuden

  Warrior, Skills, Samurai

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• Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Running, Self Confidence

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• When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial reports a decade ago is the extent to which the proof has been hushed up. It isn't just the US government which has kept quiet about alien visits. It would be arrogant of an American like myself to assume that ETs would only choose to visit my country. Indeed, I've heard convincing stories about governments all over the world that know of alien visits - including the British government.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Country, Government, Would Be

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• Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. [...] But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you - don't bother me'

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion, Lazy, Black

  "Fashion's Poet of Black : YAMAMOTO" by Suzy Menkes, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2000.

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• Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

  Owen Feltham

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Wise

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• Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.

  Dave Edmunds

  Music, Rocks, Guitar

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• I intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy. I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't. Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Sorry, Philosophy

  "Look, listen and learn" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  People, Vulnerable, Mets

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• We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.

  Conrad Black

  Commitment, Numbers, Views

  "A Brief to the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media from the Sherbrooke Record". 1969.

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• Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.

  Howard Cosell

  Vain, Obnoxious, Pompous

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• She was fabulously wrong when she said it the first time, and stunningly arrogant in her refusal to express any regret for lying to our fellow citizens.

  Trey Gowdy

  Regret, Lying, Bad Ass

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• Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Nice, Cocky, Mean

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• On a quick side note, I would argue that--much like Samuel L. Jackson--I am not arrogant at all; I'm just actually really, really great.

  Eugene Mirman

  Sides, Arguing, Notes

  Eugene Mirman (2009). “The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Evil, Politics, Terrorist

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• One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Mistake, Humble

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• We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself.

  Ronald Cunningham

  Water, Mastery, Environment

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• Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?

  Amin Maalouf

  Believe, Lasting Happiness, Generations

  Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.342, Macmillan

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• Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may, in many ways, remain a stranger. This tremendous act of faith is something that can unlock in each lover powers of compassion, generosity, joy, passion, fidelity and hope that no one guessed was even there. That is why the confidence of young lovers is not foolish or arrogant, but an expression of a basic fact in human experience that the greatest of human gifts are set to work only when people are prepared to risk everything and first you risk it before God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Mean, Passion, Expression

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