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• I have this table in my new house. They put this table in without asking. It was some weird nouveau riche marble table, and I hated it. But it was literally so heavy that it took a crane to move it. We would try to set up different things around it, but it never really worked. I realized that table was my ego. No matter what you put around it, under it, no matter who photographed it, the douchebaggery would always come through.

  Kanye West

  Moving, House, Trying

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• One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Oxford, West

  "The Best Kanye-Isms From Yeezy's Oxford Speech" by Jill Krasny, www.esquire.com. March 3, 2015.

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• Ego & Hype have no place in business.

  Keshia Chante

  Hype

  Elle Magazine Canada, 2008.

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• one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Money, Successful, Investing

  Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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• For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.

  K Callan

  Success, Vision, Rooms

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• When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.

  Willard Scott

  People, No Friends, Bigs

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• Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Land, People, Canada

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• Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Love Life, Mind

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• When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Jobs, Handbags

  Interview with Ann McFerran, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2005.

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• It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.

  Carl Jung

  Suicide, Real, Self

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• The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Sanity, Reason

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.

  Jon Anderson

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Ideas

  "The idea is to unravel the onion". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2003.

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• An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Self, Shadow

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• Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your greed, your pride, envy, or your resentment? This is a time where you can go into yourself and ask: Where is my heart? Ramadan is a time to give the heart back to the One who possesses the hearts.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Heart, Pride, Giving

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• Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.

  Thomas Sowell

  Self, Media, People

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• What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

  Lauren Myracle

  Treating Others, Want, Way

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• The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.

  Madeleine Albright

  Running, School, Thinking

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• I have no ego. There is no way you can have a big ego and survive in this [show]business. You can't learn if you think no one else has anything to say that's of value.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Thinking, Way, Bigs

  "Jennifer Gets It Right". Interview with Lesley Goober, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve.

  Hilary Liftin

  Book, Writing, Long

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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  Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

  Clint Eastwood

  Art, Listening, Checks

  "Clint Eastwood Describes His Near-Death Experience, Says 'American Sniper' Is Anti-War (Exclusive)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Rap, Careers, Music Is

  "Earl Sweatshirt Interviews Mike Tyson, Discusses Odd Future, The Notebook, Fighting, More". Interview with Mike Tyson, pitchfork.com. December 17, 2014.

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• Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Practice, Killing, Discovering

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Dec 06, 2014

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• People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hurt, Children, People

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• Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego

  Albert Einstein

  Greater, Related

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• I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

  Meek Mill

  Cds, People, Tripping

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