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• In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

  Simon Cowell

  Tvs, Film, Film And Music

  "Simon Cowell is a Very Odd Boy" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. August 23, 2011.

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• I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

  Jennifer Garner

  Play, Television, Broadway

  "Jennifer Garner Interview - THE KINGDOM". Press conference, collider.com. September 27, 2007.

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• The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sad, Laughter, Tears

  "The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran". Book by Kahlil Gibran, 2011.

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• I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Moments, Inferno

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.402, Knopf

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• Also, you may not have noticed, but this is a cupboard." "I admit that our private office is of modest dimensions," Kami told him, "But that's the way we like it. Just because we're editors doesn't mean we need special privileges. We're not snobs.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Mean, Editors, Office

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• Books can be terrible snobs.

  Simon R. Green

  Book, Terrible

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• the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

  e. e. cummings

  Humans, Human Beings

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• Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, People, Brain

  Jacqueline Woodson (2008). “After Tupac and D Foster”, p.21, Penguin

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• You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.

  Joseph Heller

  Hate, Hypocrite, People

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.395, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.

  Diablo Cody

  Reality, Culture, Pops

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• We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Fun, Humility, Pride

  The Century magazine, 1892.

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• I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.

  Alistair Cooke

  Senior, Country, Golf

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.80, Arcade Publishing

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• They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples of me? They are snobs. Frightful snobs  I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!

  Clara Bow

  People, Curiosity, Hollywood

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• I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people.' I do believe that. Not superior to all other people, but to some, most probably including those who think Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen is a great film. That is not simply ego on my part. It is a faith that after writing and teaching about films for more than 40 years, my tastes are more evolved than those of a fanboy.

  Roger Ebert

  Revenge, Believe, Teaching

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• Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

  Michael Kinsley

  Curves, Numbers, Tribes

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• I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don’t think that that should be perpetuated. I’m sorry I’m sounding like an old farty, snob, but it bothers me.

  Tim Gunn

  Sorry, Thinking, Taste

  "Tim Gunn On Celeb Fashion: "The Kardashians Have An Absence Of Taste"". Interview with Mary S. Park, www.wonderwall.com. February 17, 2010.

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• But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.

  J. B. Priestley

  Stars, Food, Vintage

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• In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces. But in the end those incredulous to what you put up with to help, no longer matter. It's not between you and those snobs, but with whom you have given your hand to lift, and of course to God who Is watching and noting it in your book.

  Mother Teresa

  Book, Curves, Hands

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• There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, World, Complexity

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.

  Jennifer Egan

  Idiot, Crushed, Coldness

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• Amy sighed. Just when she started to almost like Ian again—after all, he'd flown across the ocean and had been working around the clock to help—his snob quotient went through the roof.

  Judy Blundell

  Ocean, Amy, Helping

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• In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.

  Barbara Holland

  Eye, Winning, Yawning

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• Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

  Mary McCarthy

  Scratches, Socialism, Socialist

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• Great gandalfs ghost! if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob.

  Margaret Weis

  Doubt, Ghost, Ifs

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• If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish.

  Lana Turner

  Party, Dumb, Hollywood

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