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• You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

  Howard Stern

  Fire, Careers, Burning

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• Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  Mother Jones Magazine, Volume 22, No. 6, November - December 1997.

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• Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

  Warren Beatty

  Motivational, Children, Actors

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• No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.

  Tucker Max

  Dog, Narcissism, Narcissist

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• Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Too Much, Hateful

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

  Timothy Keller

  Self, Interesting, Miserable

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.21, Penguin

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• It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

  Alan Cohen

  Selfish, Love You, Responsibility

  Alan Cohen (2000). “Dare to Be Yourself”

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• If you're not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can't connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Self Esteem

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• You can use the internet in a way that's actually really great. It doesn't have to be about how amazing you are, or "Come watch my show!," or "Look what I'm wearing today." It doesn't have to be narcissistic.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Watches, Looks, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• I met a new girl at a barbecue, very pretty, a blond I think. I don't know, her hair was on fire, and all she talked about was herself. You know these kind of girls: 'I'm hot. I'm on fire. Me, me, me.' You know. 'Help me, put me out.' Come on, could we talk about me just a little bit?

  Garry Shandling

  Girl, Selfish, Thinking

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• Trump is a narcissistic sociopath; he's doing exactly what he said he would do.

  Reza Aslan

  Sociopath, Trump, Said

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We're stronger and braver TOGETHER. Do not let this world and this narcissistic culture make competitors out of the very people who are meant to be your comrades in arms.

  Beth Moore

  People, Together, Stronger

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• It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Ears, Way, Next

  Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

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• That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

  Alice Miller

  Mourning, Heal, Has Beens

  Alice Miller (1981). “Prisoners of Childhood”, New York : Basic Books

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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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• I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.

  James Franco

  Not Caring, Self Love, Care

  James Franco (2013). “Actors Anonymous”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

  Joyce Meyer

  Happy, Keys, Selfishness

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• Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.

  Chris Hardwick

  Crazy, Laughing, Trying

  "Crafting a joke: the arc of an act" by Chris Hardwick, www.wired.com. May 24, 2010.

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• A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Psychosis, Ego, World

  Sigmund Freud (1950). “Collected Papers ...”

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• It's really hard to have a fair discussion when you're faced with militarism, aggression, and greed. The militarists do not want dialogue. They want what they want. They're psychotic. They're greedy, they're narcissistic, and they're dangerous.

  Carolee Schneemann

  Greed, Psychotic, Dangerous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

  Walton Goggins

  Portraits, States, Grey

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• A lot of pictures of yourself - you know, it's a little narcissistic.

  Barack Obama

  Pictures Of Yourself, Littles, Knows

  "Here Are All the Highlights From Marc Maron's Interview With Obama" by Laura Bradley, www.slate.com. June 22, 2015.

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• I love Dr. Evil [from Austin Powers] as a walking, talking, narcissistic manifestation of everything screwed up about human existence - his desire to take over the world, and have the world reflect his own power lust.

  Jay Roach

  Talking, Evil, Lust

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Greed, Humanity

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing otherwise why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Artist, Thinking, Make The Best Of It

  "Confessions of Miss Mischief". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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