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I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.
Hugh Downs
Ego
Others
Air
Kind
About
Investment
Attention
Miss
Knock
Like
Being
Oxygen
Anything
Whom
There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.
Jake Shimabukuro
You
Ego
Ukulele
Player
The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.
James Altucher
Best
Ego
Will
Advice
Favorite
Vulnerable
Makes
Always
Very
Flatters
Them
Ask
Your
Technique
The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.
James Gray
Ego
Thought
First
Took
Everything
Knew
Soon
Blow
Movie
I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.
James Gray
Love
Great
You
Hate
People
Ego
Will
Predict
Everyone
Tell
Hoping
Never
Learned
How
Happen
To Love
Act
Film
Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.
Jamie Hewlett
Death
Art
Yourself
Ego
Believe In Yourself
Believe
Someone
Like
Look
West
Lot
Artist
Stop
Being
Much
Kanye
Kanye West
My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.
Janine Turner
Ego
Direction
Go
His
Let Go
Desire
I don't really have any interest in doing Donald Blake stories. Maybe it's just I don't know what to do with that sort of alter ego.
Jason Aaron
Ego
Blake
Know
Alter
Sort
Doing
Donald
Any
Maybe
Just
Stories
Interest
Really
Our company, it's, uh, really un-sexy. And I think most people get into Hollywood to be showy. We first of all make horror movies, which people turn their noses up at. Second of all, we make cheap movies, and Hollywood's a lot about ego and money and, 'My movie cost $200m!,' you know?
Jason Blum
You
People
Ego
Money
First
Think
Our
About
Cost
Horror
Horror Movies
Cheap
Know
Most
First Of All
Make
Lot
Up
Get
Noses
Movie
Which
Movies
Turn
Hollywood
Really
Company
Showy
Second
The ego always needs to be 'doing,' and repeating a mantra guides my mind to a deeper, less active experience.
Jeff Kober
Needs
Experience
Ego
Mind
Active
Guides
Always
Doing
Repeating
Mantra
Less
Deeper
I'm blessed with three children who actually aren't terribly impressed with pandering to my ego, and one of my children has a bit of a problem with the sex scenes because when she reads the stuff, she hears my voice in her head, and apparently reading a sex scene written by your mother with her describing it is rather off-putting!
Jennifer Fallon
Ego
Problem
Mother
Sex
Three
Blessed
Reading
Pandering
Bit
Rather
Scene
Voice
Scenes
Written
Head
Stuff
She
Terribly
Because
Reads
Hears
Impressed
Children
Your
Who
Apparently
Describing
Her
Actually
I knew if I had to struggle, I couldn't struggle in New York. My ego was too big for it. I couldn't be a guy who is starving when I had a very successful business when I was young.
Jeremy Luke
Business
Struggle
Ego
Big
Young
Too
Starving
Guy
Had
Knew
New
Very
York
New York
Successful
Who
To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.
Jerrod Carmichael
Ego
Honestly
Say
Ability
Understood
Very
God-Given
Just
Standup
Thing
My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.
Jerry Lewis
Ego
Comedy
Nothing
I love playing ego and insecurity combined.
Jim Carrey
Love
Ego
Insecurity
Combined
Playing
I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.
Joe Jamail
Saying
Great
Man
Ego
Great Things
Will
Giant
Critics
Admission
Uncomfortable
Because
Am
Friends
Close
Shock
Close Friends
Gets
Done
Often
Happen
Things
The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.
Joe Jamail
Ego
Trick
Conceal
Contain
Learn
I was a shy kid growing up, and I liked the idea of playing under this alter ego: like, I could be Ziggy Stardust, but I also knew I could never be Ziggy Stardust.
John Gourley
Ego
Kid
Could
Never
Knew
Idea
Like
Liked
Also
Alter
Up
Growing
Growing Up
Stardust
Playing
Shy
Sometimes I wish I was one of those artists like David Bowie. They're not putting their private lives out there; it's about show and entertainment. But an alter ego is very dangerous for me. Because I am the guy who will become lost in that.
John Grant
Me
Entertainment
Ego
Dangerous
Sometimes
Will
Wish
Become
Lost
Those
Out
About
Guy
David
David Bowie
Putting
Like
Bowie
Alter
Because
Am
Private
Private Lives
Very
Artists
Show
Who
Lives
I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor.
John Lithgow
Failure
Disappointment
People
Ego
Become
Own
Young
Difficult
Rejection
Too
Kids
Tell
My Own
Young People
Full
Hard
Including
Actor
Career
Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.
John Ortberg
Great
Reality
Ego
Face
Every
Way
Battlefield
Eye
Face Reality
Someone
General
Emotion
Allowing
Without
Makes
Trader
Quarterback
Squarely
Prudence
Get
Commodities
Capacity
Needed
Any time a bar or chef cares more about their own ego than the tastes and comforts of their customers, they should just open a monument to themselves and not a business.
Jon Taffer
Time
Business
Ego
Own
Cares
Monument
About
More
Open
Chef
Comforts
Than
Tastes
Any
Just
Bar
Customers
Themselves
Should
When my writing career took off, it was pretty easy to keep my ego in check because old-school martial arts isn't about ego gratification. It's about maintaining a balanced view of the world and your place in it.
Jonathan Maberry
Writing
Ego
World
Took
Easy
Pretty
Martial
Martial Arts
About
Check
Maintaining
Balanced
Because
Off
Arts
Place
View
Your
Gratification
Keep
Career
It was easy for me to play someone with a massive ego. It's actually really fun to have the freedom to be that person.
Jonathan Pryce
Freedom
Me
Ego
Easy
Someone
Massive
Person
Really
Fun
Play
Actually
I'm a competitor, and I'm sure a lot of people who don't get to play because of an injury, whether it's their pride or their ego, whatever it is, they want to be out on the field.
Josh Allen
People
Ego
Pride
Whatever
Field
Competitor
Out
Sure
Because
Lot
Get
Want
Whether
Who
Injury
Play
I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.
Josh Brolin
You
Reality
People
Ego
Hug
Those
Tell
Compliment
Most
Lot
Just
Artists
Dying
Sensitive
Them
Actor
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