Ego Quotes - Page 27

• I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking, Screws

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.

  Alicia Keys

  Important, Proud, Be Proud

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's like a Master Class in Acting for three hours. I go to work and I learn so much and do so much. I'm privileged. I'm privileged to be on stage with them. That's all I can say. They're extremely generous. There are no egos in the room at all.

  Sean Mahon

  Class, Acting, Three

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Your ego gets activated real quick, you really want to impress yourself. But when you come back to it, sometimes you're like, "Yeah, this part? I don't know. This guy needs a lot of help."

  Travis Morrison

  Real, Guy, Needs

  "The Dismemberment Plan". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2013.

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• I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Mean, Self, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Personality, Want, Able

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.

  Cass McCombs

  People, Personality, Songwriters

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I will tell you that the ego in me would love to play the lead. I would have loved to have been Buzz Lightyear, or Woody in "Toy Story," "Toy Story 2" but they hire celebrities for that, well-known people.

  Bob Bergen

  Play, People, Stories

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

  Britta Phillips

  New York, Obnoxious, I Can

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• When I'm walking with my father through the woods, and we reach a place where you see so far that your ego suddenly shrinks because you are so touched by the dimension of your surroundings.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Father, Woods, Dimensions

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you get talented people together with egos, this is kind of what happens.

  Tommy Ramone

  People, Together, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more songs. Are you doing it just for your ego?

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Thinking, World

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana. When boxing was illegal in San Diego, there were boxing matches in Tijuana; when gambling was illegal, there was always Tijuana.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Cities, Two, Gambling

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Film works when a director and a star have a connection. You know, when there's something telekinetic between them, there's a partnership, it's like alter egos. It's like James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock, or Fellini and Mastroianni. I'm not comparing, I'm just saying, if you can come into a relationship where the director and star have such a bond, it's so much easier to make a movie.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Stars, Directors, Connections

  "The GQ&A: Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. September 12, 2011.

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• It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

  Bruce Perens

  Mind, Ifs

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• So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention... This is the world as Stillman sees it, and to luxuriate for two hours in that retro bubble of sparkling wit is a pleasure not to be missed.

  Peter Travers

  Suicide, College, Two

  "Damsels in Distress" by Peter Travers, www.rollingstone.com. April 5, 2012.

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• We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Understanding, Mind, Islam

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• It's very interesting being an artist and a comedian, (because) you aim for jobs that will feed your ego, but when you get up to the precipice of them, you actually have to deliver. You actually have to understand that you're reaching a new level where there are way more eyes on you, way more expectations and way more pressure.

  Chris Gethard

  Jobs, Eye, Artist

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• This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.

  Alastair Campbell

  Football, Team, Believe

  "NewsPeople Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U.S.," or, "Hey, I'm essential to the world order."

  David Brooks

  Order, Two, Essentials

  Meet the Press Debate, www.nbcnews.com.

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• As a writer, you have a huge ego. You think that every line means something to everybody the same way it means to you. And that's not true.

  Pusha T

  Mean, Thinking, Lines

  "Pusha T On Fronting, Responsibility And Kanye". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. October 11, 2013.

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• In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge in it, the more pleasurable it becomes. And then when it feeds out, it's able to penetrate the mind and create a reaction.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Vanity, Self, Indulge In

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and more at peace. In the East, you think of the deep spiritual practices as a journey of complete dissolution of the self, the ego.

  Karan Bajaj

  Spiritual, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.

  Karan Bajaj

  Yoga, Essence, Opposites

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further dimension through music and sound. The work is now larger than a hymn. It's really "spoken opera."

  Jeff Britting

  Men, Play, Hymns

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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