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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Barbara Walters

Somewhere in the brain of every prima donna there is a deep craving for security and comfort, linked with a fear of old age. This causes her to pick a man who is prepared to act as a permanent wet nurse.

Andre Mertens

A lot of athletes are arrogant, narcissistic, prima donnas and selfish, and he never fell into that category. He's one of the most-sensitive, intelligent people I've known. When all of this is over, I'd like to be his mentor.

Dale Brown

Problem is there are too many sissies and prima donnas -- stop talking and get it done.

Orlando Mcguire

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Freeman Dyson

We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.

Harry A. Blackmun

He's very conscious of his duties. For him it isn't about just winning cases, but to get justice. He's not a prima donna.

John Lachance

I am not a prima donna, but when people respect you, that's always nice. If I were to say I did not like to feel myself a popular man, then I'd be lying.

Ramzan Kadyrov

When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper every other dancer in the company was equally suspect.

Shana Alexander

Proof like this would make a prima facie case of systemic discrimination.

David Baldus

Obviously, everybody was way ahead of me, but certainly I considered it, ... I have no regrets. I love the kids that we're coaching right now. They do everything we ask them to do. There are no prima donnas.

Al Golden

She played the prima ballerina very well.

Tom Julian

One of the first things he said to us the first day we met him was that he wasn't going to be dealing with any prima donnas. He's a no-nonsense guy and a great coach.

Brad Huse

What a joy, that literacy is no longer prima facie evidence of treason.

John Steinbeck

(Becoming a prima ballerina requires) a lot of work.

Emilie De Ravin