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There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit.

~Christoph Waltz

Topics: Art Bourgeois Conceit Pure Thing

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I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

~David Lee Roth

Topics: Conceit Conceited Fault Faults

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'Atomic Blonde' is about the characters' bigger existential crisis and their world. It's not so much the conceit of the spy game; it's more that being a spy sucks. But we're going to make it fun to watch.

~David Leitch

Topics: About Atomic Being Bigger Blonde Characters Conceit Crisis Existential Fun Game Going Make More Much Spy Sucks Watch World

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I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that 'the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history' - a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: American Before Being Biography Bones Conceit Deepest Experience Felt Historical History Like Narrative Nothing Privileged Right Sense Side Suggest Us

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Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit.

~David Lowery

Topics: About Affects Central Conceit How Ideas Lighthouse Literature My Own Orlando Own Passage Really Represent Specifically Time Transformed Us Virginia Which Woolf Mrs

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The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.

~Douglas Alexander

Topics: Austerity Conceit Cultural Everyone Holds Loving Misplaced South Tory

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Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

~Ellen Terry

Topics: Conceit Obstacle Progress

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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Arrogance Central Conceit Core Elements Enmity Feature God Heart Missing Most Our Pride Sin Still Think Toward Us

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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Causes Conceit Conversation More Than Wit

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