Pretentious Quotes - Page 6

• A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.

  Merrill Markoe

  Sunset, Bars, Way

  Merrill Markoe (2011). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, p.200, Villard

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• "Just to have my kids be in the sun every day-picking avocados, going for a swim," she says. "Even for two years or something, and come back when they go to senior school." Just what kids want to do, pick avocados. Also: senior school?

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Senior, School, Kids

  "Gwyneth Unveiled". Interview with Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it's a very dehumanizing thing,It's almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing ... My hope is, as we get out of it, we'll reach the next level of conscience.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  War, Next Level, Levels

  "Gwyneth Paltrow on Internet Trolls: 'I See Myself as a Screen'" by Nellie Bowles, www.recode.net. May 27, 2014.

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• The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.

  Banksy

  Art, Taken, Home

  Source: prefuse.net

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• Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

  Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

  Jargon, Envelopes, Way

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• I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that my lyrics are poetry. ... Poems are poems. Song lyrics are for songs.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Writing, Want

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• I was a really pretentious teenager.

  Rebecca Hall

  Teenager

  "Who, me? Why everyone is talking about Rebecca Hall" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, People, Realization

  James K. Galbraith, Kari Levitt, Mel Watkins, John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (2009). “Unconventional wisdom: lectures from the John Kenneth Galbraith prize in economics”

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• In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever.

  Rex Reed

  Hands, Doe, Way

  "Year-End Roundup: What to See (and Skip) Before the Ball Drops" by Rex Reed, observer.com. December 15, 2010.

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• Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joined a band after working in an ice cream shop, you can't really learn much about a person based on what kind of music they happen to like. As a personality test, it doesn't work even half the time. However, there is at least one thing you can learn: The most wretched people in the word are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Country, Ice, People

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

  Richard Thompson

  Artist, Thinking, Firsts

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• It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that.

  Fritz Maytag

  Beer, Vocabulary, Knowledgeable

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• I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

  John Milius

  Stars, War, Heavy

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• I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

  Sadie Frost

  Effort, Too Much, Sadie

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

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• This may sound pretentious, but I don't like being thought of as 'the Metal Gear guy.' There's a lot more I can do.

  Hideo Kojima

  Guy, Sound, Gears

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• In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Drama, Reading

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• Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

  David Eddings

  Teaching, Thinking, Numbers

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• Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in so firmly when I was 15 years old. My mother did not like the phrase Cosmic Unity. It was too pretentious. She preferred to call it a world soul.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mother, Years, Soul

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• I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.

  Grace Hartigan

  Ideas, House, Bird

  "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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• I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

  Anne Carson

  Groups, Kind, Tradition

  "Magical thinking" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2006.

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• I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

  Michelle Dockery

  Drama, Thinking, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

  Laurie Anderson

  Dream, Writing, Epic

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• Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Mean, Writing, Personality

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• I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.

  Rosamund Pike

  Thinking, Ideas, Laughing

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• I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Sound, Cinema, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2000.

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