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A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. Nelson Mandela

Leader, Good, End, Debate, Stronger, You

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person. Leo Tolstoy

Life, Better Person, Arrogance, Perfect

I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way. Sense of humor is definitely important. And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around. Victoria Beckham

Confidence, Great, Humble, Humor, Woman

There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best. Cristiano Ronaldo

Success, Best, Hate, I Am, People, Me

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House. Louise Slaughter

Honesty, Integrity, Government, Values

Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right? Justin Bieber

Girl, Me, Look, Trying, She, Street

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. Mehmet Oz

Heart, God, Medical, Grace, People, You

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. Gerald R. Ford

Election, America, Political, Party

Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull. Baz Luhrmann

Love, Beautiful, Sun, Smart, Place, You

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. Simone de Beauvoir

Women, Man, Aggressive, More, Who, Than

I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk - but, of course, with luxury and dignity and style. Yves Saint Laurent

Freedom, Style, Fashion, Look, Luxury

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. Friedrich Nietzsche

Great, Loved, Greatest, Demand

My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge. Nicki Minaj

Boss, Women, Knowledge, Job, Yourself

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist! Walter Gropius

Imagination, Creative, Artist, Create

The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is. Tucker Carlson

Good, Empathy, Stupid, Think, You, Class

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible. Sheldon Whitehouse

History, Hope, God, Humility, Bible

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

Strong, You, Say, Self-Esteem, Okay, Own

I guess I'm reasonably confident in all honesty. But I definitely don't think I'm arrogant. I'm pretty down to earth, I mean I'm genuinely down to earth. John Key

Honesty, Think, Earth, Confident, Down

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

Challenge, Ego, Arrogance, You, Race

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft. Talib Kweli

Humble, Know, Be Humble, You, Hard, Soft

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority. Steven Biko

Evil, Nothing, Petty, Decide, Right

I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still. Idris Elba

Journey, Myself, Competition, Saying

I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.' Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Character, Age, Time, I Am, People, Me

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn. Zig Ziglar

Learn, Nothing, Individual, Because, Who

Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy. Greg Gutfeld

Bullying, Justice, Politics, Identity

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself. Mike Tyson

Love, Myself, People, Trouble, Normal

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