A Quote by Mark Kurlansky

Americans are so egocentric.

Mark Kurlansky

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Egocentric

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Mark Kurlansky
American - Journalist
Born: December 7, 1948

Toddlers are so powerful and so egocentric and teenagers are also so powerful, so egocentric.

Laura Huxley

I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech, we're not Indian-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, rich Americans, poor Americans. We're all Americans.

Bobby Jindal

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.

Ami Bera

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

Eric Hobsbawm

Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.

Evan Esar

Children are so egocentric - they want to watch their lives, and not yours.

Nick Offerman

What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.

Molly Ivins

It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Katharine Hepburn

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

Evelyn Waugh

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

John C. Maxwell

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.