Greedy Quotes - Page 13

• I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.

  Kid Rock

  Children, Men, Fire

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from May 15, 2014

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• Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Reckless, Fine

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world.

  Tamora Pierce

  Teacher, Powerful, People

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Daja's Book”, p.74, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Selfish, Work, Loneliness

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• I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional idea is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.

  Helen Fielding

  Believe, Weight Loss, Years

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.155, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

  Stephen Fry

  Mind, Curious, Fats

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• Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Rome, Hopeless

  "Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times". Book by Charles Derber, p. 12, 2017.

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• Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.

  Conor Oberst

  Mean, Kids, Insecure

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• If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

  Chris Martin

  People, Company, Bottom

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• Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

  Donna Leon

  People, Lazy, Trying

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• I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.

  Denis Leary

  Self, Stills, Angry

  "Denis Leary Talks THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and Final Season of RESCUE ME, Confirms He’s in SPIDER-MAN Sequels". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 6, 2011.

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• I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

  Craig Kilborn

  Thinking, Sensitive, Mankind

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• I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.

  Jonah Hill

  Strong, Stupid, Responsibility

  "Jonah Hill Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next.

  Shirley Manson

  Games, Next

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• I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Burden, Exciting

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• If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

  Amy Tan

  Hungry, Ifs

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.43, Penguin

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• A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Military, Player, Games

  "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory". Scientific American, (p. 108), December 1962.

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• Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff ourselves and we go away depressed and disappointed and probably feeling a bit queasy into the bargain. It's an image of the déçu in human existence. A greedy start and a stupefied finish. Waiters, who are constantly observing this cycle, must be the most disillusioned of men.

  Iris Murdoch

  Men, Race, Feelings

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.209, Penguin

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• Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

  Marie Corelli

  Selfish, Miserable, Pleasure

  Marie Corelli (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Marie Corelli (Illustrated)”, p.8930, Delphi Classics

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• I don't like the phrase having it all. It implies we're being greedy, like "have a second piece of pie."

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Pie, Phrases, Pieces

  "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.

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• some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Glasses, Years, Office

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• Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, World, Littles

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.160, Scholastic Inc.

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• The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

  Melanie Klein

  Baby, Ambition, Ambitious

  Melanie Klein (2002). “Envy and Gratitude”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

  Tami Hoag

  Greed, Wealth, Rich

  Tami Hoag (2002). “Dark Horse”, p.29, Bantam

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• Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.

  Eric Maisel

  Dream, Artist, Desire

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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