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I'm not a big fan of those who are egotistical and so outspoken. -- Eric Heiden
Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical. -- Christine Lavin
If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more. -- John Templeton
I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be. -- Lou Reed
A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything. -- Michael Caine
Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary. -- Michael Sheen
My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me. -- John Thorn
I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher. -- Rogers Hornsby
Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away. -- Andy Kaufman
A lot of the things I did - it's not going to sound anything but egotistical - if I'm lucky and I did the right thing, they will be at Zara way before I can get them in the store, and I don't like that. -- Tom Ford
Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace. -- Joan Jett
All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes. -- Lionel Richie
I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it. -- Whoopi Goldberg
Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic. -- Zoe Saldana
It's just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe. -- Kathleen Quinlan
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be. -- Bill Lee
I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings. -- Annie Lennox
I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there. -- Jon Favreau
Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art. -- Robert Redford
If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical. -- Matt Gonzalez
I'm not too secure about my looks. They can always change. I was heavy and overweight as a teenager, so it's hard to be cocky or egotistical. -- Lorenzo Lamas
I am egotistical, that I won't deny...I do think I'm good - in fact, I know I'm good...but I know that I don't appeal to everybody. -- Phil Lynott
From an egotistical point of view, I'm always interested in roles that push me as a person. I'm interested in humans as animals and as products of society. -- Tom Cullen
Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense. -- Ray Charles
There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity. -- Anne Frank
Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way. -- John Larroquette
We as women should shine light on our accomplishments and not feel egotistical when we do. It's a way to let the world know that we as women can accomplish great things! -- Dolores Huerta
I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part. -- Mae Whitman
The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven. -- Phyllis McGinley
I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls. -- Mike Tyson
I don't think I'm egotistical, and I know what my limits are: I'm a black guy who's probably losing his hair. But I'm happy to play roles that I'm given, and I'm happy to play roles that I write. -- Noel Clarke
No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity. -- Julia Cameron
If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody is to be their own greatest fan. Weaker personas and personalities define that as egotistical or arrogant, but what it means is their self-esteem isn't that strong. -- Gene Simmons
When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man. -- Jerry Lewis
I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won't be trying to be play everyday. There's only one Cal Ripken, one Lou Gehrig and one Joe DiMaggio. What is good for them isn't necessarily good for Eric Davis. -- Eric Davis
Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it. -- Vanilla Ice
Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions. -- Henry Ford
I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical. -- Jack White
Happiness is egotistical. -- Alexandre Dumas
The unfortunate are always egotistical. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are. -- Criss Jami
I don't want to sound egotistical, but I'm egotistical to an extent. -- CM Punk
I don't have an ego; I'm not egotistical or anything like that. -- Mario Williams
Folks say I'm egotistical. Hell, I don't even know what it means. -- Mac Davis
If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth. -- Justin Long
There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty. -- Herman Melville
There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical. -- Zephyr Teachout
You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical. -- Frederick Lenz
If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical. -- Danny Trejo
I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things. -- Vanilla Ice
Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
a preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical ... -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains. -- Beatrice Webb
Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are. -- William Inge
Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me -- Mike Tyson
You have to love yourself, not in an egotistical way, but if you love yourself, everyone else will love you. -- Michelle Mone
Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god. -- Brian Helgeland
I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious. -- Winston Graham
It's such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, 'Action!' It's like being a little mini-god. -- Brian Helgeland
It's so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else's reality than they do, and such a waste of time. -- Shreve Stockton
Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them. -- Marcel Proust
If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people. -- Giles Matthey
I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical thought, ultimately. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Never be late. When you're late, what you're saying is that your time is more important than the other person's time. That's pretty egotistical. -- Alice Cooper
I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl. -- Meredith Brooks
I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical. -- Heidi Julavits
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them. -- Anton Chekhov
Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves. -- Soseki Natsume
The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It's simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality. -- Erich Schiffmann
Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness? -- Constance Fenimore Woolson
It'd be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love the whole idea of immortality. -- Gerard Way
I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up. -- David Crosby
I'm intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical cretin. I'm going to crush you on here because I'm tired of hearing about it. -- Richard Sherman
The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light. -- Lorenzo Scupoli
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure. -- Marcel Proust
Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore. -- Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
I was considered a comedy magician. And - how do I put this without sounding egotistical? - it didn't take me long to realize that comedy magicians usually couldn't do comedy or magic. -- Ricky Jay
Someone else would come, another self that was a little more refined, that had a little more purity, a little more humility, because I was quite egotistical, I thought I was quite wonderful. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this. -- Dalai Lama
The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation. -- Norm MacDonald
There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical. -- Dorothea Dix
When you say you love me, it doesn't matter. It goes into my head as just chit-chatter. You may think it's egotistical or just worry-free, But what you say, I take none of it seriously. -- MC Lyte
I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people. -- Marcus Aurelius
Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind. -- Cinda Williams Chima

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