Arrogant Quotes - Page 18

• There's something about TV shows and the format that becomes a bit more personal. People watch two, three in a row before they get out of bed on their laptop or when they get home from going out and before they go to sleep. People make shows part of their daily routine, and that makes them take ownership of it. If you're so arrogant as to call yourself an artist, you can't ask for anything more than that.

  Jay Baruchel

  Sleep, Home, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's what kids were like then. So I really like the movie [Dude, Where's My Car? ], I think it's genuinely funny, and I wish I hadn't been so arrogant about it. And, of course, I didn't know it was going to be my best work, either.

  Brent Spiner

  Kids, Thinking, Car

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• America can no longer afford to be as arrogant as we've been. We can no longer exempt ourselves from the global family of concern.

  Harry Belafonte

  America, Concern

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• President Bush had an opportunity tonight to say, 'Look ... things aren't going very well in Iraq and we did make some miscalculations and misjudgments there,' but he is so stubbornly arrogant - he just sticks with that same formula that he has in talking about the war on Iraq that just defies the reality that we all see on the ground.

  Mike McCurry

  War, Opportunity, Reality

  "Debating the first debate" by Dan Lothian, Dana Bash, John King, Candy Crowley Richard Shumate and Ed Payne, edition.cnn.com. October 3, 2004.

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• Be open to other people's ideas. Don't get arrogant about your ideas. Shoot a lot of options so you're not stuck with just one version of something.

  Jonah Hill

  Ideas, People, Stuck

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• Every Cuban has a house to live in, no matter how meager. That house is provided by government. Every Cuban who gets sick can go to a doctor or a hospital and get medical attention while 45 million Americans don't have medical insurance. Every Cuban can get education from the kindergarten through college and they don't have to pay. What is Castro doing that we might benefit from-if we are not too arrogant and falsely proud to see what he is doing in a small nation and what we have not been able to do or not been willing to do in the greatest nation on the earth?

  Louis Farrakhan

  College, Doctors, Government

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• I don't think as highly of myself as some people make me out to be. I am so far from arrogant, because I have been through enough to know that everything can go away in a moment. You know, I really don't understand why anyone would want to put me on a pedestal.

  Michael Ealy

  Thinking, People, Going Away

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Stupid, World

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Song, Real, Trying

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• Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Courage, Selfish, Science

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.140, Basic Books

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• It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

  John Piper

  Trying, Worship, Reason

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.18, Multnomah

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• The whole basis for the US intervention in Colombia is outrageously racist and arrogant.

  Noam Chomsky

  Racist, Colombia, Bases

  Source: www.madre.org

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• People have been accusing me of that ever since I got involved in politics. Some would just like to stick a pin through me like insect researchers do a dried butterfly and then say: Look, there's the banker who doesn't like people. If that were the case, I would not be here. I am not arrogant to the French - I am determined.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Butterfly, People, Determined

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• I'm not actually an arrogant guy. It's just that, truthfully, nobody else can really compare to me.

  Zach Braff

  Guy, Compare

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• In the end, the game is the same. Football is still football. Now, they may play with different formations, they may have a different idea of training, but the game doesn't alter. I don't mind how any performer - indeed, why should I? How arrogant of me if I did? - manages to get to what they have to get to. It doesn't matter how you get there, as long as it isn't going to destroy other people on the way.

  John Hurt

  Football, Long, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary, he destroyed its most attractive and dynamic aspects, turning a high-intensity, grassroots movement into an arrogant institution controlled by an elite who often managed to be both brutal and lax.

  Rodney Stark

  Long, Triumph, Movement

  "For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery". Book by Rodney Stark, August 29, 2004.

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• The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Deeds, Sin, Turns

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• I realize that in everything I was saying, that underneath my words was essentially, "why can't we be less judgemental and more like me." Which is judgemental and arrogant, to try and change somebody else's perspective just so that the world can seem better for you. It's important that we have these contrasts in life - nothing was ever created by being the same.

  Simon Amstell

  Perspective, Judgemental, Important

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• My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.

  Nicki Minaj

  Running, Jobs, Women

  "Nicki Minaj: Agent Provocateur" by James Patrick Herman, www.elle.com. March 14, 2013.

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• We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Conceited, Thinking, America

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.280, Library of America

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• I've always been very opinionated, for lack of a better term, about art. Not to sound too arrogant, but I guess I'm a connoisseur of telling people what I think is good and bad.

  Joel McHale

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.

  Russell Means

  Writing, Alive, About Yourself

  "HERB CAEN -- Caennecting the Dots" by Herb Caen, www.sfgate.com. January 31, 1996.

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• We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest. Just because we are a large country, we cannot be arrogant and think that we can ignore others. We live in a different era. Terrorism is global and can come from even remote countries. International summits and organizations like WTO take decisions which will bind us and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Hurt, Taken

  Source: www.thefrustratedindian.com

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• I suppose musicians have the kind of arrogant attitude that they can actually offer the world something, because through their passive power, they're able to be the strongest arms that they can be, incredibly strong. That's what keeps us going.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Strong, Attitude, Able

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• No one wants to be some guy who puts records out about how good it is. That seems quite arrogant.

  Gary Jarman

  Guy, Records, Want

  "The Cribs' Gary Jarman Talks Johnny Marr Collaboration, New Album". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2009.

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