Arrogant Quotes - Page 6

• I am who I am: confident, arrogant, dominant, honest, hard-working and innovative.

  Louis van Gaal

  Hard Work, Who I Am, Honest

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• Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Humble, Pride, Intellectual

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• All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.

  Larry Wall

  Territory, Language, Designer

  Usenet article <1991Jul13.010945.19157@netlabs.com>, groups.google.com. 1991.

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• Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'

  Ronda Rousey

  Cocky, Thinking, People

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• I have sometimes, probably, forgotten - and I know I have - to pat the back of someone or said thank you enough times or maybe even once sometimes I wish I were perfect. I wish I were just the nicest, nicest, nicest person on Earth. But I am a business person.If I were a man no one would ever say that I was arrogant.

  Martha Stewart

  Men, Perfect, Wish

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• Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

  Steven Biko

  Evil, Majority, Assumption

  "I Write What I Like (We Blacks)". Book by Steven Biko, 1978.

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• It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Lonely, Superhero, Overcoming

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Not to sound arrogant, but what I did in one year, others couldn't do in their entire collegiate careers.

  Cam Newton

  Years, Careers, Sound

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• All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

  Edward Rutherfurd

  Empires

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• Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Black, Modest

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• I'm not into jewelry. I've got some earrings but they're not too expensive. There are guys who drop a hundred grand for a chain. The public's got it right - a lot of NBA stars are arrogant and like to spend lots of money and have lots of girlfriends and all that.

  Andrew Bogut

  Girlfriend, Stars, Nba

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• Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.

  Chris Hughes

  Pain, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

  Jesse Jackson

  White, Ego, Church

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• You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

  Gene Sharp

  Want, Chance, Ifs

  "Gene Sharp: A dictator's worst nightmare" by Mairi Mackay, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2012.

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• I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.

  Bjork

  Thinking, People, Would Be

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• He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.

  William Manchester

  Men, Sublime, Noble

  William Manchester (1979). “American Caesar”

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• I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

  John Henry Newman

  Men, Giving, Speech

  John Henry Newman (2000). “Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England: Addressed to the Brothers of the Oratory in the Summer of 1851”, p.390, Gracewing Publishing

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• I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism—to admit that we don't know and to search—is all right. ... When I look at what I call the gift of life, I feel a gratitude which is in tune with some religious ideas of God. However, the moment I even speak of it, I am embarrassed that I may do something wrong to God in talking about God.

  Karl Popper

  Gratitude, Religious, Talking

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• It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant to know that there's no omniscient, omnipotent prime mover in the universe who loves you personally. It's not sad to feel that life and the love of your real friends and family is more than enough to make life worth living. Isn't it much sadder to feel that there is a more important love required than the love of the people who have chosen to spend their limited time with you?

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Real, Love You

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• Val, I'm on Bourbon—” “I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. Don‟t even ask it.” Ash rolled his eyes at the Roman‟s arrogant tone. “I need you in the swamp.” Silence answered him. "We have a situation." “Where do you need me?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eye, Silence, Humanity

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• I immediately felt better about killing him. I’ve never known a Trevor who wasn’t a total douchebag. It’s just one of those names that goes so nicely with selfish, arrogant, malicious behavior—and really, what did I know about this guy? Nothing, except that his name was Trevor and he’d been nabbed in the midst of breaking-and-entering. That was plenty.

  Cherie Priest

  Selfish, Names, Guy

  Cherie Priest (2011). “Bloodshot”, p.46, Spectra

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• I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Pride, Secret

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.57, Basic Books

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• Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Selfish, Evil

  "Lee Strobel Probes 'Why?' During First Sunday Service After Colorado Shooting" by Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.

  Billy Joel

  Humorous, Men, People

  Song: Shades Of Grey, Album: River of Dreams, 1993

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• Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

  Doris Lessing

  Anna, Insisting

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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