Pretentious Quotes

149 quotes by 130 authors

I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process. — Steve Carell
No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any… — John B. Jervis
The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny… — Anthony Burgess
I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things… — Luis Bunuel
Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that… — Arthur Lynch
A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and… — Merrill Markoe
"Just to have my kids be in the sun every day-picking avocados, going for a swim," she says. "Even for two years or something, and… — Gwyneth Paltrow
She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish. — Gwyneth Paltrow
BeyoncÃ©'s like, 'Okay. The singing is great. But you're not having any fun.' She's like, 'Remember when we were at Jay's concert and Panjabi MC… — Gwyneth Paltrow
I don't hold on to fear as much as I used to, because I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about… — Gwyneth Paltrow
You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it's a very dehumanizing thing,It's almost like how, in war, you go through… — Gwyneth Paltrow
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… — Gwyneth Paltrow
You know, I use organic products, but I get [laser treatments]. It's what makes life interesting, finding the balance between cigarettes and tofu. — Gwyneth Paltrow
I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I heard the rock say, 'You… — Gwyneth Paltrow
I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not like being on… — Gwyneth Paltrow
I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun... except hot dogs. — Gwyneth Paltrow
Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to… — John Maynard Keynes
I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that… — Ben Gibbard
I was a really pretentious teenager, — Rebecca Hall

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