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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock Picking.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone has that combination of arrogance and ignorance - that drives me crazy.
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
- Nov 07, 2020
The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.
- Debt
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- Nov 07, 2020
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.
- American Values
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- Nov 07, 2020
Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone knows about Amitabh Bachchan being a legendary actor, and I had this sense of arrogance that I can make him do what I want. But what he did on locations completely blew me away. I realised that I understand the quality of performances even more after seeing him perform.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.
- Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm good at what I do. I'm really, really good at what I do, and I'm not saying this with any level of arrogance.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'
- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians have an arrogance that I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debates in high school.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
- Certain Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.
- Consistency
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- Nov 07, 2020
What am I missing to be the best in the world? Honestly, nothing in terms of quality, just consistency, and that's not arrogance.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.
- Better Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen', the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bit of arrogance is nice every now and then.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Except for a very few elite pro racers up front, the Dakar Rally is not, at heart, a contest among the competitors; the battle, instead, is between mankind - more precisely, Western mankind, with all its fire-breathing machinery and inexorable arrogance - and Africa, which has been proving itself untamable for centuries now.
- Explains
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.
- Cruel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first two books, I was very close to my main character, stuck inside their head. And then with 'Arrogance,' I broke into many different voices. I introduce many different characters, and that helped me to develop a confidence to move between different characters, between different voices.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It's collegiate. There's not much politics, and we like decent people. We don't like arrogance or bullies.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beyond its romance, 'Titanic' offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It's the rare Hollywood adventure film that brings mythic images of tragedy - the fall of Icarus, the ruin of Ozymandias - so easily to mind.
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.
- Nov 07, 2020
In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doyle Dane Bernbach was a great, great agency when I got there. There was an arrogance that everyone had, but it was a closed club. I was a guy who worked a little differently. Edgier. More punch-in-the-mouth.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be both a humbleness and an arrogance. Humble when you are on the team coach and you wear the club suit, you do up your top button and wear your tie, you represent the club in the right way. Then you sign autographs for the people who pay your wages.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any top-level athlete, it's always the same. There's always that hint of arrogance there... It's hard to be humble when you're the best.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arrogance sort of destroys that nervousness because you're having a bunch of people flatter you and tell you you're awesome, and it keeps you from striving as hard for the kind of validation you seek from a good show.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to get swept up in the trappings of that sort of lifestyle, but I've been doing it for long enough that I know how easy it is to fall victim to that sort of arrogance and cockiness that celebrity culture can bring about, in young men especially.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a young, new, hot star, and I had this unbelievable arrogance. As time went on, the strident narcissism and arrogance slowly diminished. But I was definitely there. I'm older now. And a big crybaby.
- Behavior
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I go out with a girl for a meal, I'm recognised, and I hear, 'That's Chad's girl,' before anyone even approaches for a picture. I can't take arrogance and rude behaviour, and I really get a lot of it.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The arrogance of secular Jews regarding the ultra-Orthodox community and their attempt to impose on it a different lifestyle is inappropriate.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism!
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020