Egotistical Quotes

• I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

  Lou Reed

  Mean, Artist, Want

  "Remembering Lou Reed: 10 Quotes From A True Rock God" by Sam Parker, www.esquire.com. October 28, 2013.

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• Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.

  Vanilla Ice

  Thinking, Games, People

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• A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Imagination, Politics, Opponents

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sorry, Hands, Sound

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

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• Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.

  Joan Jett

  People, Not Pretty, Persons

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• Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

  Andy Kaufman

  Song, Real, Two

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

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• There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

  Anne Frank

  Inspiring, Self, Laughing

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.186, Bantam

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• Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.

  Soseki Natsume

  Loneliness, Self, Independence

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• The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Understanding, Unhappy

  "Enemies". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Opportunity, Opportunities To Learn

  "John Templeton, billionaire U.S. philanthropist, dies at 95". www.nytimes.com. July 08, 2008.

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• Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!

  Donald Trump

  Real, Healthy, Ego

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Dec 09, 2013

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• You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humble, Humility, Buddhism

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• It's just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe.

  Kathleen Quinlan

  Thinking, Universe

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

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• Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god.

  Brian Helgeland

  Littles, Able, Action

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• Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

  Criss Jami

  Humility, Admitting

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

  Robert Redford

  Art, Loneliness, Real

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• The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teaching, Interesting

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• If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, Self, People

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• I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Conceited, Busy

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• My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

  John Thorn

  Failing, Concern, Relate

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• I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

  Henry Ford

  Strong, Business, Believe

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• There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Dirty, Tendencies

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.

  Bill Lee

  Self, Guy, Yankees Baseball

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• Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

  Marcel Proust

  Feelings, Assuming, Aspect

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.82, Modern Library

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