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We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world. -- Noel Gallagher
People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused. -- Russell Crowe
I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself. -- Mike Tyson
Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment. -- Ben Harper
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken. -- David Hume
We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right. -- Daniel Ellsberg
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. -- Tony Blair
Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am. -- Howard Cosell
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy. -- Riccardo Muti
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. -- George Santayana
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. -- Sydney J. Harris
Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are. -- Andrea Dworkin
I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible. -- Jeff Miller
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. -- David Hume
You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft. -- Talib Kweli
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. -- Gerald R. Ford
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail. -- Paul Wellstone
Am I Getting Lazy? Am I Too Busy? Am I Becoming Arrogant? Am I Getting Timid? If you answer 'yes' to any one of these questions, that's your warning to Kick that attitude! -- Roger von Oech
The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out. -- Dannii Minogue
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar. -- A. E. Housman
Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top. -- John Eliot
Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. That's because, if you learn something new, you are then required to make mistakes in order to fully understand what you have learned. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House. -- Louise Slaughter
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. -- Jim Rohn
I think [G.W.] Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people. -- Harry Belafonte
I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of. -- Hugh Leonard
I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it. -- Henry Rollins
I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator. -- Criss Jami
Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant. -- Carroll Shelby
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. -- Philip Johnson
Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become. -- John Ensign
I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed. -- Sherman Alexie
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive. -- Lee Strobel
I guess I'm reasonably confident in all honesty. But I definitely don't think I'm arrogant. I'm pretty down to earth, I mean I'm genuinely down to earth. -- John Key
Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom. -- Shah Rukh Khan
Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right? -- Justin Bieber
Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect. -- Edi Rama
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. -- Chris Evert
Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country. -- Rush Limbaugh
I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.' -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge. -- Nicki Minaj
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. -- Nelson Mandela
I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still. -- Idris Elba
I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn't want to become a writer - it just happened. -- Haruki Murakami
Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have. -- Joyce Meyer
I'd say I'm a bit antimadridista although I do not know where my future will be, but it's a team that I never liked. I get the impression that it is an arrogant club, about how the players are. Without humility, you cannot get anywhere. -- Isco
As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. -- Mehmet Oz
Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull. -- Baz Luhrmann
Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night. -- Brooke Shields
An arrogant laughs at repentance." -- Toba Beta
What is more arrogant than honesty? -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Control is not humble; control is arrogant. -- Bryant H. McGill
Failures teach you. Success makes you arrogant -- Reuben Singh
Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Washington bureaucracy is too arrogant and imperial. -- Newt Gingrich
"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane. -- Herbert M. Shelton
Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds. -- William Watson
I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable. -- Kurt Sutter
All empires become arrogant. It is their nature. -- Edward Rutherfurd
If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us. -- George W. Bush
I feel arrogant trying to give people advice. -- Jeremy Irvine
a person who is arrogant is also ignorant! -- Sister Souljah
Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion. -- Mina Bissell
All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... -- Larry Wall
I wouldn't necessarily say I'm arrogant. I'm just confident. -- Draymond Green
Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He's doing. -- Barbara Cameron
James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history. -- David Cross
You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary. -- Gordon Ramsay
Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is. -- Carly Fiorina
John [Kricfalusi] is so arrogant. He thinks he's me! -- Ralph Bakshi
Ain't got no comparison and I ain't being arrogant. -- Gucci Mane
Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. ... -- Yohji Yamamoto
Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant. -- Danny Boyle
Pretend to be weak, so your enemy may grow arrogant. -- Sun Tzu
Stop being so..." "Charming?Attractive?Irresistible? "I'm going with arrogant. -- Rachel Caine
Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists. -- Arnold Newman
Can anyone be arrogant when he stands beside the cross? -- Carl F. H. Henry
When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor. -- Amit Kalantri
The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant. -- John Ray
That's the poisoned chalice: when you're shy, people assume you're arrogant. -- Catherine Tate
If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt. -- Pam Grier
Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns. -- Decimius Magnus Ausonius
Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met. -- Mike Schmidt
If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant. -- Ibn Ata Allah
Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance. -- Umar
One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science. -- Shirley MacLaine
I am who I am: confident, arrogant, dominant, honest, hard-working and innovative. -- Louis van Gaal
I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant. -- Al McGuire
Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. -- Orson Welles
I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant? -- Tina Weymouth
The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are. -- Nelson Mandela
If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear. -- Ghassan Kanafani
Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry. -- Bruce Sterling
Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity. -- Jeremy Paxman
I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought. -- Cynthia Voigt
Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right. -- Doris Lessing
I'm very arrogant and mean. I'm almost like a bad guy professional wrestler. -- Anthony Jeselnik
To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. -- Claude Monet
To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The whole basis for the US intervention in Colombia is outrageously racist and arrogant. -- Noam Chomsky
Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No arrogant man has ever touched the human heart, no despot ever commanded respect. -- Andy Paula
An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power. -- Amit Kalantri
These are the most arrogant pricks in the world starting with Belichick on down. -- Terrell Suggs
In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive. -- David Duchovny
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant. -- Henry Ward Beecher
You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life. -- Chrissie Hynde
Yes I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. -- Antonio Porchia
I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. -- Bram Cohen
Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge. -- Elie Wiesel
I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant. -- Kanye West
There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills. -- Douglas Hurd
I am number one in the world, so I have the right to be arrogant -- Martina Hingis

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