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I've always been a narcissist.
A lot of artists are such narcissists.
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.
I'm definitely a narcissist, and TV is fabulous for narcissists.
For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.
narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.
Everybody thinks I am a narcissist. I am actually the opposite of that.
My mother was a terrible narcissist and I could well have turned out like her.
The world is so rife with narcissists that none of them take enough notice of me.
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
I always call myself a recovering narcissist. I lived my life thinking everything was about me.
The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.
I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.
The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.
The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate.
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
Ever the blameless narcissist, Trump always insists that the buck stops wherever convenient - for him, personally.
I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.
You do get a bit paranoid that you're becoming a sort of narcissist, an artistic solipsist when you're doing stand-up.
If you tell a narcissist that someone is less than them in any way, they feel gratified; they feel very good about that.
I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.
With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
One thing a narcissist doesn't like is to look in a mirror that is in any way genuinely reflective of what's on the other side of it.
My father was a textbook narcissist. If he didn't like the narrative he'd start gaslighting you. He threatened the democracy of our family.
There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.
My mother became a big problem... She was a complete narcissist. When I broke free her narcissisticness came out and it was tough to get out.
Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation.
Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
In true, narcissistic fashion, when my father was diagnosed as a narcissist, he called us all up individually to tell us, and he did it with true pride.
The truth is that both groups want to be noticed. Yet we view a man's desire for attention as a natural instinct; with a woman, we label her a narcissist.
My wife thinks I'm a narcissist, but I just think it's hilarious going on YouTube and seeing these covers. There are so many of them - literally hundreds! It's flattering.
I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.
I do not know Rep. Weiner. But I do know he seems to have the features of a narcissist. Narcissists feel empty. Narcissists feel invincible. But their emotional landscape is barren.
Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.
I have no problem calling Donald a narcissist - he meets all nine criteria as outlined in the 'Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders' (DSM-5) - but the label gets us only so far.
What is most difficult is when the large part of me that is a narcissist grows weary and is overtaken by the self-loathing part that always lurks in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to shine.
Blogs are nothing more than a personal meandering diary for public consumption - a narcissist's dream. So you can imagine when bloggers take themselves - and their blogs - seriously, it's super annoying.
A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains running. He has to brag about how, 'I have a very high IQ' or concoct stories about people agreeing with him.
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Muhammad was a narcissist and Muslims, by having entered into his bubble universe have become narcissists by extension. More precisely, they are reverse narcissists. A commonly used term for reverse narcissist is co-dependent.
The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict.
I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria.
So I'd say that the Doc Antles, the Jeff Lowes, these people were very guarded. Carole Baskin wasn't and Joe Exotic, wasn't, obviously, because he's such a narcissist and an egomaniac that he did so many things against his better judgment.
I didn't take into account the critical tsunami that comes with having work going out. I've gone from being a complete narcissist, someone who googles my own name, to someone who has to work separately from that to avoid creative paralysis.
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.
I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.