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• Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.

  Simon Sinek

  Opposites, Firsts, Helping

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• If I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem non materialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.

  Randy Alcorn

  Trying, Needs, Care

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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

  War, Outcomes, Today

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I was really selfish, and I didn't want to listen to anyone. Then I started working with some really amazing people, traveling more, and figuring out who I was as a person - looking at different things, listening to different music.

  Charli XCX

  People, Listening, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.

  L. Todd Rose

  Kids, Average, Just Being

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Think about all the selfish non-smokers out there, driving around on asphalt, drinking water out of the tap, not even thinking about how smokers' taxes help pay for it all.

  George Singleton

  Drinking, Thinking, Water

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.

  Zac Farro

  Helping Others, Thinking, People

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• If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical.

  Danny Trejo

  People, Looks, Hollywood

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Most fans probably wouldn't understand that because they're not in bands, but when there's too many cooks in the kitchen it can really ruin things, it can destroy a band. So for me and Burt to approach it as just two guys it makes things a lot easier. This may sound selfish but it was less people we had to share our ideas with so there was less interference.

  Dino Cazares

  Ideas, Two, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There's a wonderful support network developing worldwide of people who understand what this big calling is, the calling of love. People often ask me, "Is it selfish to want to experience more love? Aren't you just focusing on yourself?" and my answer is that it's the least selfish thing you can do. When you start living more and more in higher states of love, it affects everyone around you and it's the biggest way you can contribute to this planet.

  Marci Shimoff

  People, Support, Answers

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• We, the United States, have to be guilty. We have to be guilty. We have to be underperforming. We have to be not showing compassion or dignity or whatever code word is used to transmit the notion that we're mean-spirited, that we're selfish, and that we're probably bigoted and racist and don't want people here like that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Compassion, People

  "America Leads the World in Goodness". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I can't say the connection is one I've made consciously, but quitting drinking allowed me to be less selfish. My wife would definitely say that one of the major benefits of me quitting drinking is that I have more time and focus for other people.

  Andy Daly

  Drinking, Wife, People

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• If there is any selfish angle, then it would probably be me just knocking myself in the head, thinking "Is there anybody here? Am I still able to communicate with other musicians?"

  Daniel Lopatin

  Thinking, Musician, Able

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

  Joshua Homme

  Thinking, Events, Makers

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In some cases there are ways of thinking about what an architectural program produces - interior and exterior - that is not necessarily directed by an economic requirement, but is a diagram based on human actions, selfish or otherwise.

  Jimenez Lai

  Thinking, Requirements, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Dreams are selfish, in the sense that they always concern issues and events that were weighing on your mind at the time you had the dream. Dreams will warn you about concerns in your career, in your family life, in your relationship with your spouse, and give insight into problems with your children.

  Charles McPhee

  Dream, Children, Careers

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Not everyone is selfish in fashion. There are people who go to bed feeling good about themselves and then spread the love.

  Alek Wek

  Fashion, People, Feel Good

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney "only" to family members.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Thinking, Want, Kidneys

  "Even if It Kills Me". "Dear Prudence" with Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. March 16, 2016.

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• I think there’s a really selfish part of me that wishes I had the tools that I had today in the context of a designer practicing in the middle part of the 20th century when creating a single expression of an idea was the norm.

  Khoi Vinh

  Thinking, Expression, Ideas

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• NBA has a selfish rationale. It saves the owners money by delaying the time a player gets to a second, more lucrative contract. Even the player's union is on board. There are only 450 jobs in the NBA, and the one-and-done protects veterans' jobs.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Jobs, Player, Nba

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It's not uncommon in the entertainment world for agents to sign young talent. It's sinful that these players can't be represented by lawyers and agents when they're in school. If a player wants to hire someone to seek his value - in any other walk of life, except where this farcical entity that is the NCAA is involved - having a lawyer or agent isn't illegal. It's just the NCAA imposing its own set of rules. It's selfish on their part.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  School, Player, Ncaa

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The selfish and usually pointless approach is to try to get both done simultaneously - accomplish your work at hand while begging forgiveness of those close to you while you're basically working in front of them during what could've been specifically 'quality time.'

  Bob Saget

  Hands, Trying, Quality

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hope for a summit meeting, we must hope in Christ without spelling out what this could mean in our particular nuclear age. This is the irrelevant answer, when another Evangelist says if America doesn't stop being selfish, it will be doomed. This is also a childish answer because nations are selfish and the question about America isn't whether we will be selfish or unselfish, but will we be sufficiently imaginative to pass the Reciprocal Trade Acts.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Mean, America, Giving

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer.

  Simon Sinek

  Nice, Believe, Personality

  Source: www.quickbase.com

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• Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.

  Noam Chomsky

  Language, Genes, Theory

  Source: libcom.org

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