Arrogant Quotes - Page 24

• Look, first of all, the climate is changing. I don't think the science is clear what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted. And for the people to say the science is decided on, this is just really arrogant, to be honest with you, it's this intellectual arrogance that now you can't even have a conversation about it. The climate is changing, and we need to adapt to that reality.

  Barack Obama

  Science, Reality, Men

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• What I don't like are arrogant people. We're all equal. I don't like it when a person assumes to be better.

  Selena

  People, Assuming, Equal

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• People do complain about the way I act on stage... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Self, People

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• The only thing I wish I could figure out is how I got misunderstood regarding the type of person I really am and what I accomplished.

  Rickey Henderson

  Cocky, Mean, Games

  "Rickey rules". Interview with Dennis Manoloff, www.cleveland.com. July 25, 2009.

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• Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction.

  Prince Charles

  Country, Technology, Weather

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• How self-centered, how arrogant... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal. When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches... I was a commodity cheese-atarian.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kids, Self, Long

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• Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like a long sigh, like a person breathing easily, freely. Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring - sustained note of power and joy. We turn from the lights of the city; we pivot on a dark wing; we roar over the earth. The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Dark, Light, Climbing

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• It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Bulls, Care, Aviation

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• This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Humble, Sadness

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• Tell me, how do you cope so calmly
  With crazy youth's arrogant way?
  Indeed, youth would be insufferable,
  Had I myself not also been insufferable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Crazy, Would Be, Way

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• People who are cocky and arrogant say, 'I know that' and move along. People who are confident and positive ask themselves,' How good am I at that?' and seek to improve

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Moving, Learning, Cocky

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• Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. That's because, if you learn something new, you are then required to make mistakes in order to fully understand what you have learned.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Order

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• History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.

  Paul Valery

  Dream, Memories, People

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• It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis Galton and William James long ago showed, a small proportion of adults-and some of these extremely intelligent-are unable to form such visual images. Berkeley's point is that it would be equally arrogant for these non-thinkers or non-image formers to claim that everyone is like them in the relevant respect. The temptation to pontificate in that way reveals a narrowness and unwillingness to see the world from another perspective.

  David Berman

  Intelligent, Long Ago, Perspective

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• God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Selfish, Love Is, Wicked

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• I want to become a superstar, but for that, I first have to be a super actorThe word 'superstar' these
  days is used for anybody who delivers a Friday hit. Amitabh Bachchan and the Khans have worked for
  many years. They have also given back to society. I am just 14 films and six years old in the industry.
  I know I'll achieve it in a few years from now and I'm arrogant enough to say that,but now isn't the time.

  Ranbir Kapoor

  Friday, Years, Six Year Olds

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• You need to balance arrogance and humilitywhen you buy anything, it's an arrogant act. You are saying the markets are gyrating and somebody wants to sell this to me and I know more than everybody else so I am going to stand here and buy it. I am going to pay an 1/8th more than the next guy wants to pay and buy it. That's arrogant. And you need the humility to say 'but I might be wrong.' And you have to do that on everything

  Seth Klarman

  Humility, Guy, Arrogance

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• Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Selfish, Compassion, Mammals

  Christopher Hitchens (2005). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.140, Basic Books

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• Trouble can often be traced to a single strong individual — the stirrer, the arrogant underling, the poisoner of goodwill. If you allow such people room to operate, others will succumb to their influence. Do not wait for the troubles they cause to multiply, do not try to negotiate with them — they are irredeemable. Neutralize their influence by isolating or banishing them. Strike at the source of the trouble and the sheep will scatter.

  Robert Greene

  Strong, Sheep, Often Is

  "The 48 Laws Of Power". Book by Robert Greene, 2010.

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• Demons do not cry. You became a demon, because you couldn't cry anymore right? Humans cry and when their tears finally run dry, there's nothing left, not a demon nor a monster and one final prayer for death. So, laugh demon. Laugh that arrogant laugh of your and remember I beat you to it.

  Alexander Anderson

  Running, Prayer, Laughing

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• Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that's how you grow.

  Paula Scher

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ignorant

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• The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Soul, Atheism

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• [T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.

  Dick Armey

  Government, Years, Law

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• Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is due to the provocation of the Zionists. If it happens in Afghanistan, it is because of their provocation. If Sudan is oppressed, it is due to Zionist seduction. We consider all the arrogant, colonialist schemes to be inspired by the Zionists.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  War, Believe, Iraq

  "Iranian President Ahmadinejad Denies the Holocaust and Warns Europeans of the Zionists: They Cling Like Ticks". www.memri.org. September 18, 2009.

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• I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.

  Laura Anne Gilman

  Thinking, Needs, Might

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