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before feminism was, Paglia was!
Camille Paglia / Teacher
Feminism
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I consider myself more exportant than important.
Vanna Bonta / Poet
Fame
Important
Self-importance
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
Ivy Compton-Burnett / Novelist
Concern
Self-importance
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Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.
Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie / Novelist
Men
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A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.
Alice Temperley / Fashion Designer
Fashion Industry
Self-importance
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
J. Donald Walters /
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Opportunity
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Call
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Serve
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One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
Whitfield Diffie / Cryptographer
Self-importance
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People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.
Greil Marcus / Author
Self-importance
Great Sense
Memoirs
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I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.
Eric Carmen /
Mindless
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Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.
Julia Sawalha / Actress
Colossal
Fall
Hurt
Self-importance
Thinking
Important People More
Actor
Far
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I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.
Moby / Singer-Songwriter
Narcissism
Self
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Thinking
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Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.
Christopher Guest / Baron Haden-Guest
Jealous
Facts
Musician
Rock Musicians
Rocks
Self
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Way Know More
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Folk
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
Larry Kramer / Playwright
Aids
Feelings
Outcast
Self
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Yale
Degree
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Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Cosmic
Dark
Delusion
Light
Lonely
Our Planet
Pale
Position
Privileged
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Universe
Challenged
Imagined
Planet
Point
Speck
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For so many people, it's very hard to feel okay with success, because success is not cool. It supposedly tarnishes your thing; it ruins little pockets of scenes and the self-importance that comes from thinking you're the only people in your town that are doing something.
Oneohtrix Point Never /
Pockets
Ruins
Self-importance
So Many People
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Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things.
Marie Rutkoski /
Christmas
Sister
Academic
College
Decided
Filled
Obnoxious
Self-importance
Series
Buffy
Reads
Throughout
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Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance. You suddenly realize that consciousness - which we value and we consider the crowning achievement of nature, human consciousness - is really just another set of tools for getting along in the world.
Michael Pollan / Author
Achievement
Consciousness
Disease
Human Consciousness
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Species
Tools
Crowning
Cure
Realize
View
Suddenly
Value
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I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.
Ashley Jensen / Actress
Boots
Scottish
Self
Self-importance
Thinking
Twenties
Face Yourself Your
Carried
Settled
Thirties
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