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Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously. John J. McLaughlin

Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous.

Tina Brown

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

William Shatner

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.

Piers Morgan

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

Goldie Hawn

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

Bernard Cornwell

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

Danny Boyle

There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.

Derek Walcott

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

Peter Jackson

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

Don Adams

I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.

Marianne Williamson

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

Michel Gondry

I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.

Randeep Hooda

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

Sid Vicious

Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.' Cartoonists don't go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.

Jeff MacNelly

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

Barbara Stanwyck

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

Kathleen Turner

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

John Shirley

I never watch TV. I know I'm missing so much, aren't I? I'm probably not. I can't stand popular TV. I've got too much to do to watch it. I know that sounds pretentious and pompous, but there you are.

Stephen Rea

Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously.

John J. McLaughlin

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

William Thomas

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

John Lone

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

Peter Cushing

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

Oriana Fallaci

There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.

Joe Jamail

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

Neil Cavuto

Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.

Jonathan Kellerman

While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.

Samantha Power

Some call-in moderators are neutral and courteous. Then there's Rush Limbaugh, who is funny and pompous and a scapegoater and hatemonger. His popularity could cause you to draw some terrible conclusions about the state of mind of the American people. It helps to remember that Bill Cosby is popular, too.

Donella Meadows

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.

Martin Freeman

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.

Jean Pigozzi

It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.

Neil Cross

Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.

Jeremy Scott

Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.

Martin Freeman

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Thomas Browne

That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people.

Derek Walcott