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• I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Self, Vegetables

  Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Look at me... look at me... I need the attention, oooh I'm punk rock I got some tattoos, I got some piercings. If I'm gonna get some piercings then I want everyone to see it...I don't need to advertise my punkness. A real punk doesn't need to show off...Its like a Karate man... the Karate man bleed on the inside. A real punk is punk on the inside.

  Mark Hoppus

  Tattoo, Real, Men

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• Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Apples, Pace, Potters

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• He's not pointing to anybody, he's showing off how high he can count!

  Bobby Heenan

  Wwe, Pointing

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• I learned early on that most yoga poses are about showing off. You find something amazing you can do, and suddenly, Shazam—you’re a guru, ready for your groupies.

  Edward Vilga

  Yoga, Guru, Groupie

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• I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

  Richie Sambora

  Song, Musical, Trying

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• Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.

  Conor Maynard

  People, Giving, Advice

  "Conor Maynard: 'I wanted to prove I'm not Bieber 2.0'". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2012.

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• I always see guys get all, like, flexed on other people, trying to show off that they are tough, and it is just, like, no girl really likes that.

  Kreayshawn

  Girl, People, Guy

  Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com. January 10, 2012.

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• I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to others.... Kindred souls—indeed, my selves otherwise costumed—turn up in books in the most unexpected places. Discovering them is one of the great rewards of a liberal education. If I quote liberally, it is not to show off book learning, which at my stage of life can only invite ridicule, but rather to bathe in this kinship of strangers.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Book, Self, Oneness

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• Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

  Spoken Reasons

  Art, People, Perfect

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• He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, College, Hair

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.

  Ozzie Smith

  Player, Thinking, Umpires

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• The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.

  Dave Matthews

  Stars, Moon, Blue

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• I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

  Graham Norton

  Actors, Comedy, Shows

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• Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

  Italo Calvino

  Smell, Cairo, Body

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Fashion, Travel

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4311, Delphi Classics

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• To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Prayer, Father, Blessing

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• If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.

  J. D. Salinger

  Watches, Ifs

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Good Morning, People, Good Work

  Chetan Bhagat (2009). “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”, p.169, Sandesh S

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• I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

  Kirk Hammett

  Rocks, Guitar, Bored

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• Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

  William Safire

  Media, Choir, Used

  "Channeling" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. September 03, 2009.

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• Understand that this art has been created by few soldiers in Vietnam to escape or reach: and this is the spirit I'd like parkour to keep. You have to make the difference between what is useful and what is not in emergency situations. Then you'll know what is parkour and what is not. So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed long time ago before parkour.

  David Belle

  Art, Differences, Goal

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• The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Wall, Ivy, Lovely

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.48, Penguin

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• Why do I want my wife to show off her panties when the wind blows? Horses show their behinds, and cows and mules, not humans.

  Muhammad Ali

  Horse, Blow, Wind

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2009.

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• Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).

  Omar Suleiman

  Humble, People, Acting

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Sep 21, 2012

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