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Pretentious Quotes

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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
Wale

Authors on Pretentious Quotes: Gwyneth Paltrow Kesha Rachel Zoe Bradford Cox Matthew Lewis Nicky Wire Karl Lagerfeld Philip Seymour Hoffman John Michael McDonagh Sam Amidon Anton Szandor LaVey Hunter S. Thompson Marianne Moore Lasse Hallstrom Emily Mortimer John Milius Rebecca Hall Fritz Maytag Wale Frankie Cosmos Harrison Birtwistle Adele Julian Barnes Reinhold Niebuhr Dag Hammarskjold Jean-Benoit Dunckel Sadie Frost James Herbert Harry Benson Derek Landy John Green Zoe Kazan Patrick Rothfuss
2.
Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?
R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

3.
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.
Gwyneth Paltrow

4.
No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

5.
She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.
Gwyneth Paltrow

6.
Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!
Jimmy Breslin

7.
Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.
Anton Szandor LaVey

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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.
Hunter S. Thompson

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

10.
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.
Harry Benson

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

12.
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.
Fritz Maytag

13.
I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.
Oscar Levant

14.
In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
Mick Jagger

15.
Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.
Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

18.
It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you start to get pretentious and do shitty things. It's good to not be so confident in yourself.
Jean-Benoit Dunckel

19.
I do consider myself to be something of a pretentious wanker.
Nicky Wire

20.
I was a really pretentious teenager.
Rebecca Hall

21.
What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.
Kesha

22.
There are some people I've met and it's stressful just speaking to them, because they're really pretentious and I don't know how to talk to them without being pretentious back.
Frankie Cosmos

23.
Alan Rickman, who was mentored me a lot. He was very keen to offer his opinions on stuff. Not in a pretentious way. Not in a patronizing way.
Matthew Lewis

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Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.
Adele

25.
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
Harrison Birtwistle

26.
Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting alone in a room so you're writing to amuse yourself as much as anybody else.
John Michael McDonagh

27.
The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.
Dag Hammarskjold

28.
I never want to be pretentious.
Kesha

29.
I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.
James Herbert

30.
If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.
Derek Landy

31.
I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.
Patrick Rothfuss

32.
I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
Zoe Kazan

33.
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.
Blaise Cendrars

34.
I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.
Nguyen Viet Thang

35.
Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?
Julian Barnes

36.
I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
Rachel Zoe

37.
You live for pretentious metaphors.
John Green

38.
The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me.
Bradford Cox

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If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.
Karl Lagerfeld

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I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of powerful intelligence.
Sam Amidon

41.
I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
Marianne Moore

42.
I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
Emily Mortimer

43.
[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.
Lasse Hallstrom

44.
You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.
John Hodgman