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  • I'm not a comedian. I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do.

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  • Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

    Eugene Ionesco, Charles Marowitz (2015). “Exit the King, The Killer, Macbett”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.

    Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.
  • The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

    Sports   Jobs   Hobbies  
  • Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. “He fights with us. We’re an army.” “An army? Talk about delusions of grandeur. What are you?” she asked Glenna. “Witch.” “So, we’ve got a witch, a sorcerer, a couple of refugees from Geall and a vampire. Some army.

    Couple   Army   Fighting  
    Nora Roberts (2006). “Morrigan's Cross”, p.253, Penguin
  • One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

    "Will It Be As Always?" by Henryk A. Kowalczyk, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2015.
  • There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit

    Eye   Ideas   Feet  
    Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.535, Simon and Schuster
  • May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

  • I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I've got a pretty cold honest eye.

    Eye   Honest   Cold  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

    Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
  • What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

    Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1087, Penguin
  • To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur.

    Artist   Genius   Done  
    "Jean Renoir: Raymond Durgnat". Book by Raymond Durgnat, p.370, 1974.
  • Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

    Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.120, Univ of California Press
  • Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

  • It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.

  • Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

    Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”
  • No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

    "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (Volume I)". Book by Christian Nestell Bovee, 1862.
  • The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

    Men   Thinking   Years  
    "This Hour Has 22 Minutes". Comedy, (1992– ).
  • Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

    YouTube Channel "RodiAgnusDei"/"Richard Dawkins debates Rowan Williams", www.youtube.com. February 05, 2013.
  • I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

    Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.
  • I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

    Running   Kids   Artist  
    "The Clinton Of Country". Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, content.time.com. September 13, 2004.
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