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• It's bizarre to have both a super-connected and disconnected world. Like, you can use Twitter in the most narcissistic way. Do people really need to know that I'm drinking a latte right now? It's so indulgent.

  Pete Wentz

  Drinking, People, Needs

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• The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the woman who is happier in giving than in taking, who is firmly rooted in her own existence, can be a loving mother when the child is in the process of separation.

  Erich Fromm

  Mother, Children, Long

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.47, A&C Black

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• How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?

  Billy Porter

  Ego, Bank Accounts, Accounts

  Source: collider.com

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• The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!"

  George Carlin

  Baby, Philosophy, Simple

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• When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that. I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!

  Tavi Gevinson

  Art, Attitude, Kids

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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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• '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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• I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

  Joni Mitchell

  "Influences: Joni Mitchell". Interview with Ethan Brown, nymag.com. May 9, 2005.

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• Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

  Zoe Saldana

  Animal, Brain, Strange

  "Zoe Saldana: I like movies that make you feel uncomfortable". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. January 14, 2011.

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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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• Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

  Rod Serling

  Drawing, Becoming

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• Only man is a narcissistic enough species to think that a highly evolved alien life force would travel across billions and billions of light-years- a group of aliens so intelligent, so insouciant, so utterly above it all, they feel no need whatsoever to equip their spacecraft with windows so that they can gaze out on all that celestial beauty-but then immediately upon landing, their first impulse is to get in some hick's ass with a flashlight.

  Dennis Miller

  Intelligent, Men, Thinking

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• I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself.

  Toni Collette

  Believe, Oneness, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Age, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

  Perry Brass

  Photograph, Break, Restaurants

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.28, Perry Brass

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• And after I act as your intermediary and he takes you back to Faery, then what?" "Then all will be made right, and I'll be invincible again." She rolled her eyes. "I meant, what happens to me? While you may be the most important thing to your egotistical little self in your narcissistic little world, guess what— so am I in mine.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Eye, Self, Important

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1307, Dell

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• One thing that stress does is make us ungenerous, so we constrict, we look after our own. We get solipsistic and go into our own narcissistic spiral. What this taught me is that there is a way of dealing with stress that is much more welcoming and open and hospitable to the world.

  Kyo Maclear

  Stress, World, Welcome

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic

  Rumi

  Fun, Wonderful, Ecstatic

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• The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising weakness, since they deplete a civilization's vital energies and weaken its defensive or affirmative capacities.

  Guillaume Faye

  Civilization, Weakness, Energy

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• I think you have to earn beauty. You can use it or abuse it however you want when you`re young. It`s a God-given gift. You have a visiting card - you can go into any room and someone will come and talk to you. But I`ve always thought from very early on that you have to be careful with that - not being vain or narcissistic. Have fun, but don`t be obsessed with it.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Fun, Thinking, Abuse

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

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• When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured into narcissistic special-interest groups? Why should an antiwar protestor be so concerned about her dietary identity? The political opinions of vegetarians and meat-eaters are, after all, equally important. And what does it tell us about vegetarians that it would never occur to meat-eaters to carry a sign that reads "Pacifist Pork Chop Lover for Peace" or "Backyard Rib Barbecuer for International Nuclear Disarmament"?

  Sherman Alexie

  Political Opinions, Nuclear Disarmament, Unity

  "Lefties Need to Love, Love, Love the White Working Class". Article by Sherman Alexie, www.thestranger.com. April 17, 2003.

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