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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.

We're human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you.

The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.

This may sound pretentious, but I don't like being thought of as 'the Metal Gear guy.' There's a lot more I can do.

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever.

I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but its to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

There's not much longevity in music today. It's so easy to go in, put some pretentious lyrics on, with people saying the same thing over and over and over.

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

To me, it's important to preserve proximity to the people. I wouldn't do anything pretentious, and nothing that hurts the people who voted for me. Triumphalism isn't my thing.

For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now it must be in the show to help us tell the story.

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.

No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here to there.

It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that.

Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

It sounds very pretentious, but I don't lie. It's too uncomfortable. A lot of people think because you're an actor that makes you a good liar, but one of the things I can't articulate is a bad lie.

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.

Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.