Self Indulgent Quotes - Page 2

• Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

  Courtney Love

  Music, Stupid, Self

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

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• I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They understand nothing else. We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit. They are nothing but vicious animals. They are greedy, self-indulgent, predatory dollar-chasers

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Animal, Men

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• And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to preserve our own interests at the expense of God's interests. It's devious, it's deceitful, it's self-indulgent. It's interested only in selfish comfort and will happily crucify Christ afresh to secure it. God also has another name for it- sin.

  Eric Ludy

  Selfish, Heart, Names

  Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy (2009). “Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God”, p.52, Harvest House Publishers

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• Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.

  Bill Bryson

  Self, People, Black

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• You've never had a hamburger before?" asks Christine, her eyes wide. "No," I say. "Is that what it's called?" "Stiffs eat plain food," Four says, nodding at Christina. "Why?" she asks. I shrug. "Extravagance is considered self-indulgent and unnecessary." She smirks. "No wonder you left." "Yeah," I say,rolling my eyes. "It was just because of the food." The corner of Four's mouth twitches.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Self, Rolling

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• Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.

  Russell Brand

  Spiritual, Pain, Self

  Russell Brand (2010). “Articles of Faith”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

  Diablo Cody

  Writing, Self, Fiction

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• My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.

  Hugh Jackman

  Father, Self, Taught

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• The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

  John F. Kennedy

  Self, Progress, Debris

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.306, Best Books on

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• One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.

  Carl Sagan

  Heart, Exercise, Ideas

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.51, Ballantine Books

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• There are not many designers who are truly creative and literate. Most are self-indulgent, illiterate, fashion-mongering, service people trying to bridge a message between a product and an audience.

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Fashion, Self, Bridges

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• When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's a self-indulgent exercise. It's the way I make my music. And when I'm acting, I get to leave myself behind, which is a relief. I get to collaborate with a director; I respect the director's medium and all the actors and actresses. So at the end of the day, it's about a character and it's about a director's vision. It's a really good balance for being so intense and alone in my personal process of making music.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Writing, Character, Exercise

  "Lenny Kravitz Shares His Acting 'Hunger'". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Writing, Self, Play

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's nice to have those people who bring you down to earth, but in a pleasant way.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Nice, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

  Pam Brown

  Artist, Self, Essentials

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• I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Falling In Love, Love You, Creativity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• "Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding.

  Harriet Monroe

  Art, Writing, Mean

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• If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Self, Ideas, Sticks

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• I'll smoke anything. I won't spend a lot of money on cigars, because I consider that too self indulgent. $3, max, except for special occasions. And yes, I do know the difference.

  Gene Weingarten

  Special, Cigar, Special Occasion

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There is much appeal for me in Eastern religion, the little I know of it. And something thorny in me finds American adaptations of Buddhism terribly self-indulgent, silly, gooey in the way the English call "wet."

  Robert Pinsky

  Silly, Buddhism, Self

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Creativity is very self-indulgent.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Creativity, Self

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Men, Self

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• Sadly and criminally, many self-indulgent inactive pacifists have shunned me for being an outspoken supporter of X's 'by any means necessary' philosophy, even though NOT supporting me means you are supporting violence since millions of meat, dairy, egg and honey-eaters who would have had a chance to see my speeches, essays or advertisements continue along their violent paths unchallenged.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Philosophy, Mean, Self

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• I go anywhere I want, do whatever I want when I get there, they let me make self-indulgent TV about that experience, and give me about as much creative freedom as anyone's ever had in the history of television.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Self, Giving, Creative

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think when you can be supremely self-indulgent sometimes it's easy to get up one's own asshole. I need parameters. I need discipline.

  Justin Broadrick

  Thinking, Self, Discipline

  Source: pitchfork.com

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