Egotistical Quotes - Page 3

• Folks say I'm egotistical. Hell, I don't even know what it means.

  Mac Davis

  Mean, Hell, Dense

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• The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment. Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect – he read it to his friends.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Men, People, Interesting

  "A Hero of Our Time". Book by Mikhail Lermontov, 1841.

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• I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical thought, ultimately.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Compassion, Attention

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• Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

  John Larroquette

  Self, Way, Stranger

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• I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.

  Winston Graham

  Clever, Pages, Enough

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• I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.

  Concha Buika

  Lovers, Conflict, Bigs

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• Someone else would come, another self that was a little more refined, that had a little more purity, a little more humility, because I was quite egotistical, I thought I was quite wonderful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Self, Rama

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• I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

  Mae Whitman

  Thinking, Long, Brain

  "Mae Whitman on TMNT, blending into Arrested Development, and acting with Coach Taylor". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2013.

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• All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

  Lionel Richie

  Artist, Inferiority, Maniacs

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

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• The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the only way I function. That’s all I am.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivation, Selfish, Goal

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• I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Selfish, People, Ungrateful

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• How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Shopping, Rude, Engagement

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Light, Self

  Lorenzo Scupoli (1978). “Unseen Warfare: The Spiritual Combat and Path to Paradise of Lorenzo Scupoli”, p.143, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• A lot of the things I did - it's not going to sound anything but egotistical - if I'm lucky and I did the right thing, they will be at Zara way before I can get them in the store, and I don't like that.

  Tom Ford

  Zara, Sound, Lucky

  "Tom Ford Opens Up About His New Collection Inspired by Rihanna and How He Hates Being Copied by Zara" by Amy Wicks, www.glamour.com. April 15, 2013.

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• When you say you love me, it doesn't matter.
  It goes into my head as just chit-chatter.
  You may think it's egotistical or just worry-free,
  But what you say, I take none of it seriously.

  MC Lyte

  Rap, Thinking, Worry

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• I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot of it does involve some aspect of me, they find it self-aggrandizing. But there’s a long tradition of artists using themselves. Look, I know I’m not perfect. And, who knows, maybe a part of it has to do with self-obsession. But it’s also about using this weird thing that is a public persona as raw material for creative projects.

  James Franco

  Artist, Self, Long

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• Never be late. When you're late, what you're saying is that your time is more important than the other person's time. That's pretty egotistical.

  Alice Cooper

  Important, Late, Persons

  "Alice Cooper: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 02, 2009.

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• It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve. Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich.

  Reinhard Heydrich

  People, Maids, Want

  "Gestapo : Instrument of Tyranny" by Edward Crankshaw, (p. 103), 1956.

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• Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need

  Steven Morrissey

  People, Personality, Fans

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• So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it and say to people, 'Okay, where did we meet?' But it just got worse. People were more offended. Every now and then, someone will give me context, and I'll say, 'Thank you for helping me.' But I piss more people off. You get this thing, like, 'You're being egotistical. You're being conceited.' But it's a mystery to me, man. I can't grasp a face and yet I come from such a design/aesthetic point of view. I am going to get it tested.

  Brad Pitt

  Conceited, Men, Views

  "Brad Pitt: A Life So Large" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I want[ed] to make a show of really big pictures, because you see male artists doing it all the time. It just seemed like such a big egotistical thing. I thought, 'I don't know that many women that really do that.... Damn it, I'm gonna do that-make this really big picture.'

  Cindy Sherman

  Artist, Males, Want

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• "I spent two hours trying to question reapers without sounding like I was questioning them. What do you think it says about us as a group, that every reaper I know is either irritable, egotistical, voyeuristic, or some combination of the three?" "That you fit in well?"

  Rachel Vincent

  Thinking, Two, Trying

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth.

  Justin Long

  Earth, Has Beens, Ifs

  "Not strictly commercial". Interview with Mary McNamara, articles.latimes.com. July 23, 2006.

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• I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Baby, Accepting, Bigs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, the other narrowly egotistical; one is self-critical, the other self-righteous; one is sensible, the other romantic; one is good-humored, the other solemn; one is inquiring, the other pontificating; one is moderate, the other filled with passionate intensity; one is judicious and the other arrogant in the use of great power.

  J. William Fulbright

  Self, Two, America

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.274, Random House

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