Egotism Quotes - Page 9

• Yo, I'm the illest. Plus I know more different strokes than Arnold and Willis.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Different, Plus, Strokes

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• Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupid, Passion, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.117, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

  Edwin Balmer

  Stupid, Vanity, Statistics

  Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer (2016). “When Worlds Collide”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Bhakti is the one essential thing.
  To be sure, God exists in all beings.
  Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind dwells on God.
  But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
  The water of God's grace cannot collect
  on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.

  Ramakrishna

  Running, Vanity, Long

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• Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irresistible, and ambition falls before it

  William V. Shannon

  Fall, Ambition, Light

  William V. Shannon (1989). “The American Irish: A Political and Social Portrait”, p.24, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Problem, Source, Humans

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• The modern position seems only another manifestation of egotism, which develops when man has reached a point at which he will no longer admit the rights to existence of things not of his own contriving.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Rights, Conservative

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.154, University of Chicago Press

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• To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

  Gore Vidal

  Evil, Greed, Mind

  "Comment, July 1961" by Gore Vidal, www.esquire.com. May 19, 2008.

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• There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Believe, Hero, Self

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• It's my world, I demand my respect. Give me your girl or get slapped in your neck.

  Big Pun

  Girl, Giving, World

  Song: Laughing at You, Album: Yeeeah Baby, 2000

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• Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Fiction, Larger Than Life, Life Is

  Song: Drifting, Album: Afterglow

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• Little cute thing said, what's yo' name? I put my necklace in her face and told her read the chain.

  Ludacris

  Cute, Names, Necklaces

  Song: Virgo

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• Making love with his ego.

  David Bowie

  Ego, Making Love

  Song: Ziggy Stardust, 1972

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• Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.

  Sam Cooke

  Home, Men, Two

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• Pissing in a river, watching it rise.

  Patti Smith

  Rivers

  Song: Pissing in a River, Album: Radio Ethiopia

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• The biggest nuts and guess what? He is I and I am him.

  Snoop Dogg

  Nuts

  Song: Who Am I?, Album: Doggystyle

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• There must be a God because he made me.

  Todd Rundgren

  Made

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• There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.

  Lou Rawls

  Ifs And, Missing, Ifs

  Song: You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine

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• They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my mouth to let those big words come on out.

  Peter Gabriel

  Thinking, Use, Mouths

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• When I release, you loose teeth.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Teeth, Release

  Song: Tonight, Album: Born Again

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• Who the hell can he be? He's never had V.D.

  Jethro Tull

  Hell

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• Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.

  Carl Perkins

  Past, Night, Doors

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• Yo' Momma, I'm a ghetto super star.

  Ludacris

  Stars, Ghetto, Momma

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• I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've ever said, and I used it in the follies of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.

  Will Rogers

  War, Believe, Home

  "The Will Rogers Book". Book by Paula McSpadden Love, 1972.

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• I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Thinking, May, Trouble

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