Pretentious Quotes

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When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat. — Gwyneth Paltrow
I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable. — Gwyneth Paltrow
Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think,… — Gwyneth Paltrow
In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm… — Danica Patrick
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. — Lou Reed
I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves,… — David O. Russell
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
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit. — Justin Timberlake
I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they… — Pete Townshend
I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books. — Rainn Wilson
I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties. — Rachel Zoe
Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the… — Franklin P. Adams
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life. — Rick Warren
I remember growing up, saying youâ€™re an artist it sounds pretentious but now itâ€™s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself. — Marilyn Manson
I took a bite of cookie and chewed. â€œHmmm,â€ I said, trying not to spit crumbs. â€œClear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips, distinct flavor of… — James Patterson
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a… — Jonathan Safran Foer
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it.… — Mark Twain
...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she… — David Nicholls
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… — Patrick Rothfuss
At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed,… — Brian D. McLaren

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