Greedy Quotes - Page 16

• The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Jobs, Thinking, Long

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

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• We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three Batman films. That's enough. Let's not get greedy. It's a torch that should be handed from one actor to another. So I enjoy looking forward to what somebody else will come up with.

  Christian Bale

  Torches, Three, Actors

  "Christian Bale won't be Batman in 'Justice League' movie" by Adam Markovitz, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy

  Max von Sydow

  Play, Stills

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• You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.

  Gina Carano

  People, Feel Good, Should

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• I believe I was extremely greedy.

  Andrew Fastow

  Believe, I Believe

  "Enron's Ex-CFO: Lay Knew of Financial Problems". www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2006.

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• All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.

  Taylor Mali

  Teacher, Teaching, Understanding

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.76, Penguin

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• The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Sacrifice, People

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.

  Richard Bach

  Funny, Beautiful, Wise

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• I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.

  John Sweeney

  Powerful, Thinking, Economic Inequality

  "John J. Sweeney : Can the Vigor be Restored to America's Labor Movement?". Interview with Harry Bernstein, articles.latimes.com. October 29, 1995.

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• The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

  Publilius Syrus

  Self Worth, Poor

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• A split personality can never become non-greedy. It can try, but it can never become. A split personality can never go beyond anger. It can try, but it can never go beyond. A split personality can never go beyond sex. It can fight. So many monks in the monasteries are doing it. They don't go beyond sex; at the most their sexuality becomes perverted, their love becomes poisoned.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Fighting, Love Is

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• The wars of today, the terrorism of today, are the result of injustice, and that injustice is the Outcome of our greedy, selfish, competitive way of working through commercialization and market forces.

  Benjamin Creme

  Selfish, War, Outcomes

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of words" One fashions by scheming and skill For those who are greedy and warlike, Whose avarice for power cannot cease, Can never contribute in helping To bring this world nearer to peace For in seeking peace for all people There is only one place to begin And that is in each home and heart- For the fortress of peace is within!

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Fashion, Peace, Home

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing

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• Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

  Martial

  Hook, Deceived, Fishes

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• We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.

  Terry Crisp

  Funny, Team, Stupid

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• Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Government, Understanding, Rifles

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Anne Applebaum (2007). “The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation”, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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• I'm not going to retire because I want the money. We want honest athletes, but at the same time, you're going to have people saying, 'He's so greedy. He's made X amount of money, and he has to take that last little bit.' Yes, I do have to take that last little bit. I'm sorry if that is frustrating to some, but if they were in my shoes, they would do exactly the same thing.

  Steve Nash

  Funny, Sorry, Athlete

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• You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy, it's just a natural thing.

  Thierry Henry

  Winning, Years, Want

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• Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, Somewhere Else, Things I Love

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• Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron project in India.' ... After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a selfless public servant.

  Harry Browne

  Sorry, Mean, Should Have

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• ... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all taxpayers. The rich directly benefit, since greedy politicians are unable to seize as much of their money. And the rest of us benefit, since this puts downward pressure on tax rates as governments try to keep the geese that lay the golden eggs from flying away.

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  Government, Eggs, Political

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• George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Mistake, Race

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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• How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?

  Pat Robertson

  Atheist, Drug, Age

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• Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

  Napoleon Hill

  Selfish, May, Matter

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “Your Magic Power to be Rich!”, p.351, Penguin

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