Self Indulgent Quotes

• I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.

  Audre Lorde

  Believe, Caring, Self

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• Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Self, World, Firsts

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

  Dave Barry

  Business, Self, Organization

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• All autobiography is self-indulgent.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Book, Self, Autobiography

  Anne Edwards, David G. McCullough, Vance Oakley Packard, Andrew Sinclair, Daphne Du Maurier (1978). “Vivien Leigh: a biography”

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• Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and the way to give to the world the very best that you have to offer. There IS a track just waiting for each of us and once on it, doors will open that were not open before and would not open for anyone else.

  Joseph Campbell

  Doors, Self, Track

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• Without trying to get too self-indulgent, there's a fine line between making something that's soundtracky and cinematic, or making it sound like a bad 70s prog-rock record.

  Jason Reece

  Rocks, Self, Trying

  "And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

  Marge Piercy

  Writing, Self, Guilty

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• I have learned to go fully in the face of my dreams. I would recommend you do the same. Now is the time in your life to be selfish. To explore. To take chances. Remember being selfish is not the same as being self-indulgent. You have the gift of time. Use it to do what you love. Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

  Julianna Margulies

  Dream, Selfish, Believe

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• You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Hunger

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”

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• The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

  Aristotle

  Men, Self, Cost

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1766, Princeton University Press

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• Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre.

  Elliott Sharp

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Two

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• As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.

  Keith Olbermann

  Good Night, War, Party

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• I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded in sitting down at a desk every day and trying to write something? Is it self-indulgent, or might it possibly lead to something worthwhile? At a certain point I decided to keep on because I felt like the work was getting better, and I was taking great pleasure in that.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Self, Risk

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• Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander in my discursive thoughts. I could have cut through sooner. Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Notebook, Running, Cutting

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Art, Self

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• My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Desire, Way

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• The show became popular as aspecialthing became popular. And Sasquatch, the guy who runs that site, started coming to every show and reviewing it. And when people start talking about the reviews from the stage. That to me is really self indulgent and we tried to put a caper on that.

  Scott Aukerman

  Running, Self, Talking

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or hopefully that we will ever see. If they could keep writing and keep a voice alive, keep people hopeful through their poetry, then I would be ashamed to stop and to give in. It would be really self-indulgent, unacceptable, and inexcusable to walk away from it.

  Sara Paretsky

  Writing, Self, Voice

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East.

  Peter Menzel

  Sex, Stars, Children

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• The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!"

  George Carlin

  Baby, Philosophy, Simple

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• Despite their tremendous talent, (NBA players) are still, by and large, young adults, seeking validation from an authority figure, and there is no greater authority figure on a team than the coach. Needless to say, in today's warped, self-indulgent climate, too many players couldn't care less about appeasing the coach.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Player, Nba

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• When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.

  David Hasselhoff

  Moving, Self, Realizing

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• I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Fun, Struggle, Journey

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Character, Self, People

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1422, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

  John Lydon

  Writing, Self, Laziness

  Interview With Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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