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• Nowadays, you really have to make an impression quick and I think this does give people a chance to show off what they've got. It's very difficult these days. You really have to stand out quickly. I think it's also so diverse that there's enough material for everybody.

  Julie Halston

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.

  Andre Gide

  Cutting, Vanity, Anxiety

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• I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.

  Jazmine Sullivan

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

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• In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

  George Mikes

  Latin, People, Greek

  George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• I love to show off my ability in a nice way.

  Yani Tseng

  Nice, Way, Ability

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• I am young. I better show off what I have now.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Young, Shows

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• What fun is life without a bit of showing off?

  Matt Lucas

  Fun, Bits

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• You don't write a book to show off.

  Tony Orlando

  Book, Writing, Shows

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• Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.

  Harvey Mackay

  Falling In Love, Gray Matter, Phrases

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• I show off - I'm a very good show off. It's what I do, it's what I'm good at.

  Robbie Williams

  Very Good, Shows

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• I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Independence, Age, Shows

  "The Doyenne Of The Drawing Room" by Charlotte Curtis, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 1981.

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• Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

  Amy Tan

  Play, Want, Chess

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• I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Vanity, Trying

  "Steve Coogan Doesn't Believe in Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• Showing off is what you do when your are simply better than everybody else.

  Dolph Ziggler

  Wrestling

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• The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

  Eddie Marsan

  Character, Thinking, Acting

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

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• The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, House, Parent

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• I have an excuse to show off my love of history, and my interest in cosmology.

  Fred Van Lente

  Excuse, Interest, Shows

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.

  Amiri Baraka

  Moving, Reality, Blue

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1984). “Daggers and javelins: essays, 1974-1979”, William Morrow & Co

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• It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Use, Information

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

  Yann Martel

  Men, Shy, Taught

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.89, Vintage Canada

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• I never felt safe. In high school, acting is what I did to stay sane. It wasn't about showing off; it was about revealing parts of myself that I couldn't reveal anyplace else.

  Sally Field

  School, Acting, Sane

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• You feel like you're trying to show off your cool by mentioning the five bands that you know are great and the five books that will reflect well on you. I can't do it. I should take the time to but I don't want to take the time to do that.

  Emily Haines

  Book, Trying, Want

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!

  Anna Sui

  Kind, Shows, Wells

  "TalkAsia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2004.

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• Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.

  Bert Jansch

  Guitar, Sticks, Guitar Playing

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• I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist.

  Kelly Reilly

  Shows, Exhibitionist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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