The supreme egocentric of the most perfect clique of egocentrics.
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Oscar Cargill (1898–1971), a literary critic and professor of English at New York University, as quoted in B.I. Reid, "Art by Subtraction Quoted"
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Quoted in "The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation of British and American Subjects", p.701Gertrude Stein
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What's Bagism? It's like... a tag for what we all do, we're all in a bag ya know, and we realised that we came from two bags, I was in this pop bag going round and round in my little clique, and she was in her little avant-garde clique going round and round, and you're in your little tele clique and they're in their...ya know? and we all sort of come out and look at each other every now and then, but we don't communicate. And we all intellectualise about how there is no barrier between art, music, poetry... but we're still all "I'm a rock and roller, he's a poet" ... so we just came up with the word so you would ask us what bagism is, and we'd say "WE'RE ALL IN A BAG BABY!"
John Lennon
Kinski's fits can be partly explained by his egocentric character. Egocentric is perhaps not the right word; he was an outright egomaniac. Whenever there was a serious accident, it became a big problem because, all of a sudden, he was no longer the centre of attention. He was no longer important.
Klaus Kinski
Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.
Helen Hayes
On judicial arrogance: It is one of the unhappy incidents of the federal system that a self-righteous Supreme Court, acting on its Members' personal view of what would make a 'more perfect Union' (a criterion only slightly more restrictive than a 'more perfect world') can impose its own favored social and economic dispositions nationwide.
Antonin Scalia
I hardly recognize him here. He was very egocentric, tried to get ahead without considering others.
Erich von dem Bach
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