I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality… That’s a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others. – George Stevens
I’ve turned arrogance into an artform, where it’s so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I’ve never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone. – John Lydon
Hillary Clinton has her own issues with just her own arrogance as a leader; that has been well known for a long time. – James Lankford
In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness. – Ingrid Betancourt
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. – Jon Landau
You’ve got to know what your ‘thing’ is, and you’ve got to call it a ‘thing,’ whether it’s meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody’s got a ‘thing,’ and once you call your ‘thing’ a ‘thing,’ we can give it a place to be or dismiss it. – Iyanla Vanzant
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. – James Denton
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. – Jon Landau
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. – Chevy Chase
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‘Good pride’ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‘Bad pride’ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance. – John C. Maxwell
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. – Barbra Streisand
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. – Benoit Mandelbrot
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
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. – Charles Horton Cooley
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! – Armando Iannucci
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. – Catherine Drinker Bowen
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
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
I would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It’s the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race. – Paul Watson
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited. – Patrick Stewart
