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• The world is so rife with narcissists that none of them take enough notice of me.

  Eleanor Bron

  Vanity, World, Enough

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• There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.

  Geoff Stults

  Athlete, Trying, Presses

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• People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

  Yoko Ono

  Artist, People, Courses

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• I think the narcissism comes from the industry side of things. The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic, it's always kind and compassionate. It can be difficult to hold onto artistic principles when the business is so glaringly about the product. It's sad.

  Jordan Gavaris

  Thinking, Principles, Sides

  "Family Ties". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 13, 2016.

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• Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars or narcissists

  Lee Radziwill

  Regret, Liars, Thinking

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• I just think I'm a narcissist, really! I guess when I write albums, they take a huge amount of time out of my life and I'm aware of not using the same processes as I did with the last one, or else I'd get really bored and wouldn't feel inspired.

  Conor O'Brien

  Writing, Thinking, Bored

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked... and comedians are always talking about politics.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Talking, Comedian

  "New role for 'Daily Show' reporter". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 8, 2009.

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• I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.

  Michael Showalter

  Thinking, Views, World

  "Q&A: Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I used to play a narcissistic-conservative pundit. Now, I'm just a narcissist.

  Stephen Colbert

  Play, Narcissistic, Conservative

  "Stephen Colbert Brings Showmanship — And Harmony — To His 'Late Show' Debut". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 9, 2015.

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• A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume.

  Gore Vidal

  Self, Concern For Others, Greed

  "Screening History (Growing Up With Gore Vidal)". Book by Gore Vidal (p. 24), 1994.

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• I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

  William Hurt

  Artist, Actors, Want

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 18, 2005.

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• narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.

  Anna C Salter

  Self, Planets, Sense Of Self

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• We're selfish to some degree, that's not a criticism and it doesn't mean that we are all narcissists. But in any situation our minds naturally evolve to what's in it for me? How does this affect me? Can this benefit me? Can this harm me? Then we might move on from that and have a more altruistic point of view about things but that's almost always our initial response.

  Robert Greene

  Selfish, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what a hassle that would be!

  John Hodgman

  Children, Wish, Monsters

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Obama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise.There’s not anyone of independent stature around him. There was in the first term, because he needed them to prop him up. But now that he entered a second term, he’s the master of the universe, so there’s nobody around him. He is impervious to outside advice, real advice that he takes.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Real, Independent, Self

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• He is not simply looking into the mirror because he is transfixed by what he sees. Rather, the artist’s success depends as much as anything on his powers of detachment, on de-narcissizing himself… Freud… studied his own dreams not because he was a “narcissist,” but because he was a student of dreams. And whose were at once the least and most accessible of dreams, if not his own?

  Philip Roth

  Dream, Artist, Mirrors

  "My Life As A Man". Book by Philip Roth, December 23, 2010.

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• My wife thinks I'm a narcissist, but I just think it's hilarious going on YouTube and seeing these covers. There are so many of them - literally hundreds! It's flattering.

  Charles Kelley

  Thinking, Wife, Youtube

  "Lady Antebellum Celebrate 'Sweeter Times' on New Album". Interview with Beville Darden, theboot.com. January 26, 2010.

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• It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.

  Kurt Cobain

  Children, Order, Appreciate

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• Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

  Jaron Lanier

  Sirens, Blind, Server

  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as a huge balloon can be deflated by a small needle, all it takes to make Islam explode is to ridicule its loony inventor and its brainless followers.

  Ali Sina

  Ego, Islam, Followers

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Muhammad was a narcissist and Muslims, by having entered into his bubble universe have become narcissists by extension. More precisely, they are reverse narcissists. A commonly used term for reverse narcissist is co-dependent.

  Ali Sina

  Muhammad, Used, Term

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.

  James P. Gorman

  Dog, Cat, Ideas

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• Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

  Alain Badiou

  Love Is, Two, Contracts

  "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

  Anne Lamott

  Taken, Reading, Book

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.21, Anchor

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• As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Hate, Insane

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