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Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.
Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired.
I think pompous accents are inherently funnier.
What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.
I make a living out of being pompous! Why should I change?
Opera can be exceptionally moving but can also be pompous.
I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!
I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
I just find anyone who's arrogant and pompous is always the funniest for me.
I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most.
Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
The Seattle explosion was what saved rock from becoming too pompous! A great moment in music!
Only I can play Modi. I say that even at the cost of sounding pompous because I really love him.
I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.
I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?
Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.
Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.
There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.
Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous precedents and reverences.
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.
Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously.
Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.
I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
Without wanting to sound pompous or clever it is down to me to make decisions on behalf of the side to give it the best chance of being successful.
There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.
Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.
People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you.
I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.
Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.
Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.
I've gotten a little bit pompous. When I get out in public, I really notice myself looking at my reflections as a I walk though. New York is not a great place for me.
Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous.
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.
I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.
For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.
I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?
Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.
While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.
I haven't always played nice guys. In 'Gremlins,' I was a conceited, pompous braggart, and I was a redneck chauvinist in the TV movie 'A Matter of Sex.' But I really prefer sympathetic roles.