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Ruthless Killers strike with Weapons and Pretentious Friends kill with Kisses. It's easy to avoid the former, but not so the later – Kennedy Ogba	added by anonymous 3 years ago
I think it’s a coincidence, i’m not pretentious enough to think she named her after me. – Stephanie Clifford	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
A pretentious way of saying 'selected,'. – San Francisco	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Let’s be modest. Africa is vast, and it would be pretentious to speak in its name. I’m fighting the battle with words because I’m a storyteller, a griot. Rightly or wrongly, they call us masters of the spoken word. Our duty is to encourage the West to appreciate Africa more. It’s also true that many Africans don’t really know their own continent. And if you forget your culture, you lose sight of yourself. It is said that “the day you no longer know where you’re going, just remember where you came from.” Our strength lies in our culture. Everything I do as a storyteller, a griot, stems from this rooting and openness. – Sotigui Kouyaté	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I'm the guy you probably hate. Born in the States, educated in the UK and now living in Europe. Oh did I mention I'm self employed and travel a lot? And, no I'm not shallow or pretentious, those are just your own preconceived notions about me. – Henri St. Germaine	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. – Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious. – Despair.com	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Marty This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too' – This Is Spinal Tap	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression. – John Romano	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. – Henry W. Fowler	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Ruthless Killers strike with Weapons and Pretentious Friends kill with Kisses. It's easy to avoid the former, but not so the later

– Kennedy Ogba

added by anonymous
3 years ago

I think it’s a coincidence, i’m not pretentious enough to think she named her after me.

– Stephanie Clifford

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

A pretentious way of saying 'selected,'.

– San Francisco

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Let’s be modest. Africa is vast, and it would be pretentious to speak in its name. I’m fighting the battle with words because I’m a storyteller, a griot. Rightly or wrongly, they call us masters of the spoken word. Our duty is to encourage the West to appreciate Africa more. It’s also true that many Africans don’t really know their own continent. And if you forget your culture, you lose sight of yourself. It is said that “the day you no longer know where you’re going, just remember where you came from.” Our strength lies in our culture. Everything I do as a storyteller, a griot, stems from this rooting and openness.

– Sotigui Kouyaté

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I'm the guy you probably hate. Born in the States, educated in the UK and now living in Europe. Oh did I mention I'm self employed and travel a lot? And, no I'm not shallow or pretentious, those are just your own preconceived notions about me.

– Henri St. Germaine

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

– Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.

– Despair.com

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Marty This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too'

– This Is Spinal Tap

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.

– John Romano

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

– Henry W. Fowler

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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