Pretentious Quotes

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I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden. — John Milius
No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious. — Merrill Markoe
One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly… — George Carlin
I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious. — Sadie Frost
This may sound pretentious, but I don't like being thought of as 'the Metal Gear guy.' There's a lot more I can do. — Hideo Kojima
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
In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days… — Gaston Bachelard
Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds… — David Eddings
Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in so firmly when… — Freeman Dyson
I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as… — Grace Hartigan
The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are… — Chuck Klosterman
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader,… — Alberto Manguel
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two… — Kevin Myers
There's not much longevity in music today. It's so easy to go in, put some pretentious lyrics on, with people saying the same thing over… — Patti LaBelle
Tony Vigorito has grown a cult following of thousands for one reasonâ€”his stuff is fun to read... Itâ€™sâ€¦ filled with the freshness and the freewheeling… — Kris Saknussemm
I do consider myself to be something of a pretentious wanker. — Nicky Wire
Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more… — William Empson
The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their… — Aphex Twin

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