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• I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off.

  Britt Ekland

  Beautiful, Husband, Brain

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• Fruit... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!"

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Looks

  "Dylan Moran: Like, Totally". Video, December 2006.

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• I have a streak in myself, like, I'm an exhibi- tionist. There's a side of me that really wants to show off and share parts of myself with others. I mean, that's why I live in New York, and that's why I'm an artist who shows 10 times a year.

  Josh Smith

  New York, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There you are!” he shouted at them. “Father has half the castle turned out looking for you.” “Us?” Hadrian asked. “Yes.” Fanen nodded. “He wants to see the two thieves in his chambers right away.” “You didn’t steal the silver or anything, did you, Royce?” Hadrian asked. “I would bet it has more to do with your flirting with Lenare this afternoon and threatening Mauvin just to show off,” Royce retorted. “That was your fault,” Hadrian said, jabbing his finger at him.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Father, Flirting, Two

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• There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off.

  T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

  Vanity, Want, Clients

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• When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.

  Mae Jemison

  God, Color, Purple

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• The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Selfish, Vanity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.65, Vintage

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• The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why I don't want to make my concerto "virtuosic" in the sense of a technical show-off. I want a beautiful sound and a melodic and lyrical line. I am more interested in the way someone can play musically.

  Gavin Bryars

  Music, Beautiful, Running

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• You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

  Carrie Fisher

  Order, Difficult Situations, Survivor

  Carrie Fisher (2005). “The Best Awful: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work on his tan? Mimi wondered.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Mimi, T Shirt, Shirts

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series”, p.97, Hachette UK

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• Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Stars, Growing Up, School

  "Five things I know about style: Zooey Deschanel". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.

  Zicheng Hong

  Ignorant, Taoism, Weakness

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• Your goal is simple: Finish. Experience your first race, don't race it. Your first race should be slightly longer or slightly faster than your normal run. Run your first race. Later you can race. You will be a hero just for finishing, so don't put pressure on yourself by announcing a time goal. Look at it this way: The slower you run the distance, the easier it will be to show off by improving your time the next race!

  Bob Glover

  Running, Distance, Hero

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• I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are made for. But what I like about China and sometimes miss in Europe is the entrepreneurial spirit of our young people, their ambition and dynamism.

  Zhang Xin

  Ambition, Heart, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm not generally a big solo guy, because I'm not into showing off that way.

  James Hetfield

  Guy, Way, Solo

  "Metallica Meets Gov’t Mule". Guitar World Magazine Interview, alanpaul.net. February 24, 2016.

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• The plus-size revolution that has been happening lately is incredible but it's also creating this "other" beauty standard in which you have to be an hourglass, you have to be super sexy and fierce about showing off your curves. That's quite frightening to me, and I don't fit in it, I don't want to fit it.

  Beth Ditto

  Sexy, Creating, Curves

  "Clem Wears: Beth Ditto New Collection". Interview with Clementine Desseaux, www.bonjourclem.com. February 15, 2016.

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• There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.

  Adrian Tomine

  Character, Artist, Trying

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• I'm most excited that the hard work has paid off for myself and the team. You put your heart and soul into something and you want to show it to an audience outside of Jersey Boys. It gives a chance to not only show my work, but of Jeffrey Schecter as an actor and co-writer. It gets to show off our cinematographer, my production team. That's what I'm most proud of… everybody gets to have their own moment to enjoy it.

  J. Robert Spencer

  Team, Hard Work, Heart

  "J. Robert Spencer: Jersey Boy & Movie Man". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. November 13, 2007.

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• I think in most companies you're surrounded by the past. You may have a Web site or archives or a lobby that sort of shows off your work of the past. The future is not as tangible.

  Harry West

  Past, Thinking, Tangible

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have to trick themselves out to gain attention, it is a sure sign that they are unworthy of it. If we want to make ourselves worthy, we can do so only by the innate eminence conferred by virtue. We hold great people in esteem more for the qualities of their soul than for the qualities of their fortune.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  People, Soul, Quality

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• I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.

  Eric Idle

  Fun, Nice, Moving

  "Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) - Eric Idle interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Bridges - a master of subtle brilliance - plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off, but by going bone-deep into a character who only thinks he's running on empty. Crazy Heart may finally win him the Oscar that's unfairly eluded him and it offers the pleasure of watching a great actor at the peak of his form.

  Peter Travers

  Running, Crazy, Heart

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• 'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Mean, Men

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• The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance, you know -- Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!

  Lenny Bruce

  Mother, Acceptance, Entertainment

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