Pretentious Quotes

• Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Trying, Jargon

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• When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Heart, Garden, Zucchini

  "Gwyneth Paltrow has been at the forefront of pop culture for 20 years - I will miss her at Goop" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. August 02, 2016.

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• Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

  Denis Leary

  Trying, Speech, Comedy

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.58, Penguin

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• A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

  Rick Warren

  Simple, Empty Life, Life Is

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Life Changing, Caring, Thinking

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• I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.

  Jonah Hill

  Character, Play, Important

  "Jonah Hill ALLEN GREGORY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 29, 2011.

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• I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I heard the rock say, 'You have the answers. You are your teacher.' I thought I was having an auditory hallucination.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Teacher, Rocks, Answers

  "Gwyneth Unveiled". Interview with Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Epic, Who I Am

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• We're human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, Sun, Natural

  "Gwyneth Paltrow Under Fire For Quote About Sun Exposure". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2013.

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• The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Simple, Truth Is, Banality

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• No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Want

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• You know, I use organic products, but I get [laser treatments]. It's what makes life interesting, finding the balance between cigarettes and tofu.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Interesting, Balance

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• Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Beautiful, Witty, Giving

  A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)

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• Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Stupid, Epic

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• I don't hold on to fear as much as I used to, because I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating. It's very empowering, and I've learned a lot of that from Jay-Shawn Carter-Z, because his approach to life is very internal. It's a very good lesson to learn.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Caring, Thinking

  "Gwyneth Paltrow On Jay-Z:‘I’ve Learned A Lot’ From The Rapper" by Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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• They love a brown rice stir-fry, but they also love their 'Coke of the week'...My daughter gravitates toward fresh fruit and raw nuts but will inhale a bag of hot Cheetos at the airport. It's all about balance.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Daughter, Nuts, Airports

  "Gwyneth Paltrow’s Kids Eat Oreos And Cheetos, Not Only Nuts And Berries", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• ...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that they can without difficulty write in like manner themselves and win applause for it. And so it perpetuates itself.

  George Albert Wells

  Reading, Writing, Science

  George Albert Wells (1991). “Belief and make-believe: critical reflections on the sources of credulity”, Open Court Pub Co

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• I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

  Rainn Wilson

  Art, Book, Museums

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• I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun... except hot dogs.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dog, Buns, Hot

  Gwyneth Paltrow (2011). “Notes from my Kitchen Table: Enhanced Ebook Edition”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

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• Beyoncé's like, 'Okay. The singing is great. But you're not having any fun.' She's like, 'Remember when we were at Jay's concert and Panjabi MC comes on and you do your crazy Indian dance? Do that. Be you!'

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Fun, Crazy, Singing

  "The Spellbinder: Gwyneth Paltrow" by Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. August 3, 2011.

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• She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Teaching, Nannies, Fluent

  "The Real Gwyneth". Interview with Justine Picardie, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 1, 2012.

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• ... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

  Plato

  Opportunity, Government, Law

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• Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce which makes it look like a pretentious dish on the buffet table at some fance dress ball?

  Marcel Boulestin

  Food, White, Simplicity

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• Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three jobs, at the same time. They're difficult and pretentious and they're tormented artists.

  Peter Berg

  Jobs, Artist, Often Is

  Source: collider.com

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• My son is actually named after Beck, the musician. We heard Beck on the radio and thought that was a good nickname for a child. We named our son Beckett so we could call him Beck - we reverse engineered. And then after he was born and I saw the name on the birth certificate I realized Beckett was a really pretentious name, way too literary. Luckily he's grown into it. We nearly named my second son Dashiell. Can you imagine? Beckett and Dashiell. It would have been a disaster of pretentiousness.

  Lauren Groff

  Children, Son, Musician

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