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• Not to be arrogant, but I have a lot of hits, so my phone stay ringing, but it's consistent.

  Rico Love

  Phones, Consistent

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• If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

  Philip Johnson

  Architect, Modest, Knows

  "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.

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• I'm one of the lucky people that, my job is my passion, is my hobby. I hope this doesn't sound arrogant: I truly feel that this is what I'm meant to do, to swim and to talk about protecting the environment, my two passions.

  Lewis Pugh

  Jobs, Passion, Two

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

  Simon Hoggart

  Powerful, Sight, People

  "Why the American right make me sick" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2009.

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• I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Humble, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.7, Criss Jami

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• The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.

  John Ray

  Party, Men, Ignorant

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• Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.

  A. E. Housman

  Lonely, Hero, Men

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• When I look back, I can see why people thought I was aggressive. My first single, 'Do It Like A Dude,' resulted in a lot of misconceptions about me. I'm confident - but I'm not arrogant.

  Jessie J

  People, Looks, Firsts

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

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• There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Humility, Able, Scripture

  Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.225, SPCK

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• The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it's extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Ideas, Numbers

  "'I’m an Atheist’: Stephen Hawking on God and Space Travel". El Mundo Interview with Pablo Jauregui, www.nbcnews.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough to think that they always observe with rigorous and objective scrutiny, and therefore could never be so fooled while ordinary mortals know perfectly well that good performers can always find a way to trick people.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Psychics, People

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.

  Jaime Lerner

  Believe, Taken, Cities

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• There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.

  Jan Morris

  Vegas, Cities, Mountain

  Jan Morris (1985). “Journeys”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stars, Pain, Profound

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.553, Modern Library

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• Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Attitude, Reality, Tunnels

  Robert Anton Wilson (1977). “Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati”, New Falcon Pubns

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• He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Humble, Intellectual, Experts

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• These are the most arrogant pricks in the world starting with Belichick on down.

  Terrell Suggs

  World, Starting, Most Arrogant

  "Super Bowl lineup: Ray Lewis, Colin Kaepernick and the Harbowl" by Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

  Mina Bissell

  Motivation, Inspiration, Passion

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• Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Intellectual, Investing

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• Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it always come to us as obvious and arrogant[...]. Often it comes to us with the simple plea to be reasonable.

  Derrick Jensen

  Simple, Evil, Black

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• We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as God's chosen people is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Stupid, Believe, Racism

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• To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Stupid, Thinking, Land

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• Did he show himself?” Nash asked, and I glanced to my right to see him staring at my father, as fascinated as I was. My dad nodded. “He was an arrogant little demon.” “So what happened?” I asked. “I punched him.” For a moment, we stared at him in silence. “You punched the reaper?” I asked, and my hand fell from the strainer onto the edge of the sink. “Yeah.” He chuckled at the memory, and his grin brought out one of my own. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d seen my father smile. “Broke his nose.

  Rachel Vincent

  Memories, Dad, Father

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• "I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

  Winston Churchill

  War, Blood, Sweat

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or even "crazy."

  John Eliot

  Crazy, Views, Achievement

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.71, Diversion Books

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