Arrogant Quotes - Page 13

• Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.

  Dean Koontz

  Selfish, Struggle, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.216, Bantam

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• I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

  John Banville

  Self, Impatient, Educated

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• I'm a little older and fatter now, and I'm not exercising as much. My lifestyle these days involves a lot of beer and pasta. But there's something satisfying in letting your body go to hell. So maybe I won't get offered the same kind of role as before. So what? I'm happy to play the guy in his mid-30s who may be a little unhealthy. "Fat and arrogant" is what I'm bringing to the script.

  Luke Wilson

  Exercise, Beer, Play

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

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• Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Men, Melting

  Terry Pratchett (2013). “Jingo: Stage Adaptation”, p.108, A&C Black

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• I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.

  Jonny Lang

  Careers, Sound, Playing Music

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• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Eye, Unique, Humanity

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• Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Witty, Stars, Guy

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• The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Thinking, Views, America

  "Obama Is Average". SPIEGEL interview, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• The reason people hate America is because they don't like being treated like garbage by arrogant, pompous, hypocritical, self-righteous, duplicitous, imperialist political and bureaucratic hacks.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Hate, America, Self

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• The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

  Zig Ziglar

  Believe, Levels, Individual

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• I always laugh at people who say "I've never met a rich technician" I love that! Its such an arrogant, nonsensical response. I used fundamentals for 9 years and got rich as a technician

  Martin S. Schwartz

  Years, People, Laughing

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• Well, the questioner came from Singapore, which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy. And therefore he referred to 15 percent per annum as modest. It's not modest, it's arrogant.

  Charlie Munger

  Records, Economic, Economy

  "1997 Annual Meeting". buffett.cnbc.com. May 5, 1997.

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• If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GAT, or "fast-track"; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; no income tax. We could get rid of most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited.

  Ron Paul

  Country, School, Gun

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• A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Trying, Too Much, Orchestra

  "Anthony Hopkins: 'I've never been really close to anyone'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.

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• I'm arrogant enough to tell you that I'm smart enough to have scored higher on my Scholastic Aptitude Test than any US president whose SAT score has been made public. I even scored higher than ex-presidential candidate Al Gore, whose SAT score was so high, it was deemed as potentially off-putting to voters.

  Jim Goad

  Smart, Aptitude Test, Presidential

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I wrote a letter to the magazine [Time magazine] pointing out that [Richard] Corliss's comparison of Christopher Lee's Saruman to Osama Bin Laden, and the vastly outnumbered defenders of Helm's Deep united against the Orcs to the "Coalition of the Willing" fighting the good fight against Muslim hordes, displayed the simplistic, xenophobic, and arrogant worldview that makes the government of the United States feared and mistrusted around the world. The editors claimed they had no space to print my brief letter, which I felt was dishonest and cowardly.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Fighting, Editors, Space

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• [Doctor Strange] is difficult, he's arrogant, but he's kind of brilliant and charming and you'd think, "Yeah, I'd want him on my head if I needed brain surgery." He's good enough to warrant his arrogance and he respects other people but not when he thinks he's right and he'll just do what he deems needs to be done when he knows or feels that he's right and the problem from humility's point of view is that he is right, he's really really good at his job.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Jobs, Humility, Thinking

  "‘Doctor Strange': Benedict Cumberbatch on His Strange Journey to Becoming the Sorcerer Supreme". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I think the worst thing you can do is take an arrogant approach and not give people enough content to wrap their heads around.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

  Danny Boyle

  Guy, Brian

  "The sun is the star" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2007.

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• In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

  David Duchovny

  Men, Aggressive

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• I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

  Idris Elba

  Journey, Long Ago, Competition

  FaceBook post by Idris Elba from Oct 19, 2012

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• Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

  John Ensign

  Prestige, Achieve, Persons

  "Farewell to the Senate". www.congress.gov. May 2, 2011.

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• Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

  Carly Fiorina

  Thinking, People, Courses

  "Interview with California Senate Candidate Carly Fiorina". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 24, 2010.

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• My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Writing, Thinking

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• Toasted Heretic should have been cherished and helped, rather than ignored or sneered at, or put down as "quirky band with an arrogant singer". So I certainly didn't help the band, but the virtues I had meant that we recorded albums when everyone else just listened to them. But, yes, if you could suffer from high self-esteem, then I certainly suffered.

  Julian Gough

  Self Esteem, Should Have, Suffering

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