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" 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. "
Leo Tolstoy
" An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. "
Benoit Mandelbrot
" Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws. "
Randy Pausch
" 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. "
Conor McGregor
" 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. "
Mike D
" Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that. "
Rita Moreno
" Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
" 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. "
Cole Sprouse
" As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance. "
Kim Weston
" As a wheelchair user, you can't move about freely. That's the only thing that bothers me a little. When I'm in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance. "
Wolfgang Schauble
" 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. "
Joe Klein
" But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. "
Rowan Atkinson
" Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness. "
Wole Soyinka
" Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit? "
Lynn Margulis
" 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. "
George Lois
" Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. "
Frank Lloyd Wright
" Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C. "
Dan Benishek
" Everybody has their detractors. Some people say arrogance, or whatever they may say. I only have one thing in mind, and that's doing a great job for the country. "
Donald Trump
" 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. "
Jonathan Miles
" False modesty can be worse than arrogance. "
David Mitchell
" 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. "
Moshe Safdie
" 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. "
David Price
" I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed. "
Steve Madden
" I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people. "
Milos Forman
" 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. "
Jason Segel
" I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.' "
Gerhard Richter
" I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance. "
David Farr
" If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance. "
Shunryu Suzuki
" If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance. "
Trevor Nunn
" I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity. "
Brian Molko
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