A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.
~By Matthew Barney ~
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.
~By Penelope Keith ~
An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.
~By Michael Hutchence ~
Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.
~By Roseanne Barr ~
It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.
~By Ryan Phillippe ~
You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!
~By Joseph Jarman ~
I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.
~By John Prescott ~
V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening.
~By David Lloyd ~
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.
~By Lewis Black ~
It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.
~By Andy Partridge ~
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
~By Philip Wylie ~
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.
~By Jeane Kirkpatrick ~
But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
~By Bill Maher ~
And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.
~By Claudia Cardinale ~
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
~By Robert Redford ~
I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
~By Chris Lowe ~
I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.
~By Amy Adams ~
Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
~By Dan Rather ~
More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.
~By James Levine ~
I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my weekends and days when we are not in session traveling to communities throughout my district.
~By Greg Walden ~
There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air.
~By Isaac Yeffet ~
When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.
~By Larry Dixon ~
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
~By James Cameron ~
Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.
~By Allen Boyd ~
Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.
~By Bryan White ~
However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.
~By John Bradshaw ~
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.
~By Anthony Braxton ~
If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.
~By Lal Bahadur Shastri ~
Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
~By Lorna Luft ~
I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.
~By Howard Hodgkin ~
Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
~By Vartan Gregorian ~
As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.
~By Ted Kulongoski ~
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
~By Mick Jagger ~
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
~By Germaine Greer ~
It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.
~By Robert Sheckley ~
There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
~By John Steinbeck ~
With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable.
~By Greg Walden ~
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
~By Roger Ebert ~
I never thought about being on a series before. It seemed like such a big commitment. But I love going to work every day. This is not about ego, it's about work, and that's refreshing in this town.
~By Lauren Ambrose ~
Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.
~By Ray Harryhausen ~
There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.
~By Billie Burke ~
As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.
~By Alija Izetbegovic ~
I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
~By Erich Fromm ~
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
~By Kate Moss ~
We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.
~By John Negroponte ~
I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.
~By Laura Nyro ~
A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.
~By Ted Kulongoski ~
I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there.
~By Jon Favreau ~
I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.
~By Laura Prepon ~
Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.
~By Lord Chandos ~
I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised.
~By Sylvia Kristel ~
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'
~By David O. Russell ~
I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
~By Walter Martin ~
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
~By Max Planck ~
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
~By Alan Watts ~
Mastery passes often for egotism.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
~By Will Durant ~
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
~By Moliere ~
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.
~By Trip Hawkins ~
I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.
~By Hugh Downs ~
In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
~By Bill Kreutzmann ~
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
~By Herman Hesse ~
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
~By Meryl Streep ~
I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
~By Louis Pasteur ~
As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.
~By Greg Walden ~
There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.
~By Kim Dae Jung ~
But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
~By Origen ~
The orbs have probably sold better through catalogs because they can be categorized unlike at most stores.
~By David Rose ~
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
~By George Eliot ~
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
~By Elizabeth Moon ~
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
~By Susan Griffin ~
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
~By Siegfried Sassoon ~
Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.
~By Caprice Bourret ~
You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.
~By Damon Albarn ~
A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
~By Michael Caine ~
The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.
~By Leigh Steinberg ~
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
~By Robert Mugabe ~
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
~By Colin Powell ~
To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.
~By Dexter Gordon ~
Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.
~By Scott Stapp ~
We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.
~By Jack Irons ~
I think that between the egos of the actors and the wrestlers in this country we are taking away from the truly dedicated and informed people who should be getting their voice heard.
~By Dwayne Hickman ~
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