Chris Hedges Quotes

Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Egos turn me off, big time.

Gentlemen, start your egos.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I never wanted to be 'the big I-Am.'

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.