#ego

It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad. ↗

— Gary Bettman

#deal #go #make #negotiate #sides

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. ↗

— Ernest Bevin

#intelligent people #look #people #scapegoat #unintelligent

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#himself #interested #me #more #person

I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#anything #arenas #because #crazy #ego

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations. ↗

— Pat Brown

#aftermath #boost #community #control #coverage

In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#between #border #built #canadian #country

I am appreciative of the Bush administration's commitment to fair trade by looking at the facts in this case and ruling affirmatively for the implementation of quotas in this specific category. ↗

— Howard Coble

#am #appreciative #bush #case #category

I was on this bridge overlooking the carpet... I think it went all the way back to Oregon. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#bridge #carpet #i #i think #oregon

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film. ↗

— Robert Conrad

#control #ego #film #go #had

All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove. ↗

— Evan Davis

#attached #baggage #bred #case #category