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Quotes About Self-display

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'
~ Jenny Eclair
Quello che disapprovava della generazione attuale, ammesso che questo fosse il punto, era che non si potesse fare niente senza esibizionismi. (...) Non si era più capaci di piantarejna carota senza congratularsi dell'impresa.
~ Alice Munro
Ah, é uma praga, a vida que se exibe, uma verdadeira praga! Estamos numa época em que todos os ridículos filhos de Adão desejam evidenciar-se perante os outros, com todos os seus ditos espirituosos, esgares e tiques, toda a glória da fealdade auto-adorada, afirmando aos restantes - num transbordar de narcisismo que os outros interpretam como benevolência - 'Aqui estou para dar testemunho. Vim para lhes servir de exemplo'. Pobres espectros tontos!.
~ Saul Bellow
Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
~ Antonio Porchia
The great thing about fashion is that you can create a very unique version of yourself to display to the world.
~ Rain Dove
When I won my first MMA fight, I put myself out there for the world to see me.
~ Alberto Del Rio
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
~ Baltasar Gracian
This point, where beauty forms the bridge between women and institutions, is what women are taught to seize upon, and is then used as proof that women themselves are finally to blame. But to make herself grasp this straw, a woman has to surpress what she knows: that the powerful ask for women to display themselves in this way.
~ Naomi Wolf
If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
~ Mason Cooley
Since we are now down to our final two exhibits, Abraham Lincoln and moi
~ Chris Grabenstein