Egomaniacs Quotes

• A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

  Quentin Crisp

  Share, Starvation, Diets

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• Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Crazy, Military

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• It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

  Gary Oldman

  Self Esteem, Recovery, Pride

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• I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

  Eric Clapton

  Inferiority, Inferiority Complex, Complexes

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• Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

  Dan Rather

  Business, Literature, Performing

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• I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.

  Kanye West

  Nucleus, Influential, Egotistical

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• I think each human being wants to make their mark on the world in whatever way they can, and maybe everyone has a slight egomaniac inside of them.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Thinking, World, Want

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• If I talk about what I'm good at, I seem like I'm a conceited egomaniac.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Conceited, Seems, Ifs

  "Interview | Patrick Rothfuss – Part One". Interview with Aidan Moher, aidanmoher.com. June 8, 2007.

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• Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

  Norman Mailer

  Liberalism, Incapable, Conspiring

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• If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write... it's flattering and it helps you during the day.

  Glenn Quinn

  Believe, Writing, People

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• We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.

  Herman J. Mankiewicz

  Children, Emotional, Personality

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• Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Writing, Thinking, Want

  "'Gossip Girl' Creator Reveals Reality of 'Young Adult'" by Cecily von Ziegesar, www.mtv.com. December 12, 2011.

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• I'm a control freak. I'm defensive. And I'm an egomaniac. That's true about me.

  George Saunders

  Freak, Control Freak

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You cannot be an egomaniac on the horse. If you lose your temper and start beating him, either you will destroy him, or he will destroy you. As soon as you start riding horses seriously, you're being disciplined on a daily basis about how ignorant you are and what there is left for you to learn.

  Jane Smiley

  Horse, Ignorant, Riding

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 4, 2007.

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• Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.

  Kanye West

  Looks, Good Times, Having A Good Time

  "Kanye West admits he looks miserable 90% of the time - see his 13 grumpiest faces here" by Issy Sampson, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2013.

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• The longer your gevity is, the more confidence you build.

  Kanye West

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• There will never be a reunion, as I will never do anything with an asshole like Will Smith. He is still an egomaniac and has not grown up. This constant reunion thing will never ever happen in my lifetime unless there is an apology, which he doesn't know the word.

  Janet Hubert

  Apology, Lifetime, Reunion

  "Fresh Prince' star: I'll never reunite with a**hole Will Smith" by Paul Millar, www.digitalspy.com. December 27, 2011.

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• Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

  Peter Drucker

  Believe, Three, Unnecessary

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Technology, Management and Society”, p.91, Routledge

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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, Ego

  Meet the Press Debate, www.nbcnews.com.

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• I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm filled with hubris because I know how good I am at certain things. But other things, I can't do at all. I can't draw.

  Harlan Ellison

  Mistake, Sound, Way

  "Harlan Ellison, Part One". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2008.

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• Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

  Lynda Obst

  Movie, Ego Problem, Hollywood

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• If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.

  Gail Caldwell

  Suffering, Shy, Spotlight

  Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.17, Random House

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• I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, youre a massive egomaniac, and you think that everything you do is going to affect the world.

  Rupert Graves

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is.

  Kanye West

  Nucleus, Ridiculous, Awesomeness

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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