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" Air travelers, of course, are famous for their hubris. They carry on too many bags and use the restroom when the seat-belt sign is on. "

" As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable French skunk pursuing his would-be kitty paramour, left his mark on me: became an instant emblem of odoriferous hubris, hedonistic bad behavior. He was an entry-level Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a rookie Marquis de Sade. "

Michael Paterniti

" Hubris and science are incompatible. "

Douglas Preston

" Hubris is one of the great renewable resources. "

" Hubris itself will not let you be an artist. "

" I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau. "

Michael Ignatieff

" It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this. "

" I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career. "

Kristan Higgins

" I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means. "

" I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things. "

" Our hubris needs to be downsized, thinking that profiteering on Earth, on whatever level - environmentally, economically, culturally - is unlimited and everybody should get as much as he wants or she wants. Humans need to be shrunk again to their actual size. "

Christoph Waltz

" The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris. "

" The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris, there is tragedy. "

" Theranos was a combination of fraud with hubris mixed with incompetence. "

" There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why. "

" The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. "

" We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal. "

" We're all victims of our own hubris at times. "

" We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals. "

" What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion. "

" Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn. "

" When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It's an element of a lot of big stories. "

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