I'm very aware of self-deprecation being used as a glorification of certain behaviour and I try to avoid it. — CMAT Copy Share Image
“I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
So it just wasn't in my house. Anywhere, I looked like I knew about the toilet. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.” — Bob Monkhouse Copy Share Image
Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their… — Amy Pietz Copy Share Image
“In the secular trinity of Irish-American values, loyalty and humor are father and son. Self-deprecation is the spirit that works in mysterious… — Maureen Dezell Copy Share Image
“Self-deprecation is a disease, as is pride; anger is a disease, as is envy. Anything that throws you off-balance, physically or mentally,… — Om Swami Copy Share Image
My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the… — Garance Dore Copy Share Image
Self-deprecation runs right through queer culture. It was seen as a badge of honor. I started to feel like perhaps it was… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
First off, I don't do self-deprecation comedy based on being fat. I would always talk about it honestly. Secondly, I don't care… — Jeff Garlin Copy Share Image
“After years of self deprecating behavior, I’ve never learned how to properly take a compliment. A part of me wants to argue… — Brynna Gabrielson Copy Share Image
In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation. — Zachary Lazar Copy Share Image
I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I grew up thinking you're either a winner in the world, or you're not. I presumed I was not. I had no… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
[Dean Martin ] had this really wonderful rich, authentic, distinct vocal style. His humour in movies [and] the self-deprecation and the coolness… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
“I should have learned mindfulness, and it’s too late now because it’s no good learning it when you’re already in crisis: you… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I think people are used to people in show business having a lot of hubris. I think I have a normal amount… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I think the biggest survival instinct that Midwesterners possess is self deprecation, it's almost a Buddha-like sense of humor in anything that… — Amy Pietz Copy Share Image
I think that enjoying the fruits of one's labor is very different than arrogance. And when I was younger, I didn't know… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
We live in a world of self-deprecation, and while it’s healthy to make fun of ourselves from time to time, it bothers… — Lea Michele Copy Share Image
“They say no one person can do it all But you want to in your head But you can't be Shakespeare and… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
“Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player… — Archie Henderson Copy Share Image
“when you walk, you look like you’re trying to disappear. your back is gonna be fucked up. why do you think change… — Caitlyn Siehl Copy Share Image
“One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with. Scruples are alien to the black panther. Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“Consistency and persistence has the power to change failure into an extra ordinary success.” — Bhawna Dehariya Copy Share Image
The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
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