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• What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

  Kesha

  Tables, Pops

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

  Pete Townshend

  Believe, Writing, Years

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• I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

  Justin Timberlake

  Trying, Sound, Albums

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• I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

  David O. Russell

  Hate, Real, Character

  "The Fighter: David O. Russell Interview". Interview with Tom Butler, www.ign.com. February 8, 2011.

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• I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Latin, Used, Trans

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• In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more.

  Danica Patrick

  Lying, Thinking, Lamborghini

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• I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Yoko Ono at 80: 'I feel that I am starting a new life, a second life'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

  Moby

  Growing Up, Book, Obscure

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• I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.

  Steve Carell

  Self, Talking, Comedy

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• I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Needs, Rooms, Chairs

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.421, Penguin

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• Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

  Daphne Guinness

  Mean, Sunglasses, Dark Glasses

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• The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce; trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wine, Vegetables, Meals

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• No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.

  John B. Jervis

  Hard Work, Knowledge, Science

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• The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.

  Alan Watts

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

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• Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Sense Of Humor, Magician

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• No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.

  Merrill Markoe

  Country, Opportunity, Facts

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• I don't want to sound too silly or pretentious about this, but, you know, I love being in Paris. I love working at Louis Vuitton. I love fashion. That's why I do it. No one's forcing me to do this. And nobody forces anyone to buy it. It's a real love affair.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Real, Silly

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• If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.

  Derek Landy

  Long, Glory, Should

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• Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, People, Trying

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

  Marianne Moore

  Poet, Disgusting, Can Do

  Marianne Moore (1967). “The complete poems of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best designer labels and latest spiritual fads, weighing us down with layer upon layer of heavy, uncomfortable, pretentious, well-starched religiosity.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Spiritual, Religious, Community

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• I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

  Emily Mortimer

  Girl, Littles, Has Beens

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• Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that of Einstein gradually fading into ineptitude under the searchlight; and I have no doubt that there will arise a new generation who will look with a wonder and amazement, deeper than now accompany Einstein, at our galaxy of thinkers, men of science, popular critics, authoritative professors and witty dramatists, who have been satisfied to waive their common sense in view of Einstein's absurdities.

  Arthur Lynch

  Witty, Eye, Science

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• I was a really pretentious teenager.

  Rebecca Hall

  Teenager

  "Who, me? Why everyone is talking about Rebecca Hall" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

  Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

  Jargon, Envelopes, Way

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