Selfish Quotes - Page 23

• This has been my struggle for years - the pull between wanting to be in the spotlight and yet also to make a difference in the world. Lately I've come to conclude that I can be a "selfish" artist that focuses on issues of individuation, power, and freedom.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Struggle, Artist, Differences

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts.

  Mark Shields

  Instinct, Trump

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I know I'm missing something, but those who have children are missing what I get to do. And frankly, I'm probably missing more of what I don't want than what I do. Some may call me selfish or narcissistic, but I don't want to spend my time going to PTA meetings. The only way I could have children and do the work I do is to have a househusband - and I'm not attracted to a househusband. I'd rather affect children with the work I do.

  Julie Taymor

  Children, Missing, Narcissistic

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• A player should never be selfish and should always contribute to team's victory.

  Shahid Afridi

  Team, Player, Victory

  Source: www.vogueamour.com

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• The best thing anyone can give to humanity is God consciousness. Then you can really give them something. But first you have to concentrate on your own spiritual advancement; so in a sense we have to become selfish to become selfless.

  George Harrison

  Spiritual, Giving, Humanity

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• Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve the common good. That's often true, but as Darwin recognized clearly, many traits that serve the interests of individual animals make life more difficult for larger groups.

  Robert H. Frank

  Animal, Hands, Invisible Hand

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The media tries to destroy Republicans who make little faux pas and they start telling everybody how dumb and stupid or uncaring they are. They're so self-absorbed, so selfish and so forth. With Obama, it's always, "There's nothing to see here, because he's a dream of a guy to begin with" and all that. "He missed the Gulf of Mexico? So what! He thinks there are 57 states? Big deal! At least he's trying; at least he cares," is the way it goes.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Stupid, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I feel like God has intrusted a lot into me and I don't want to sit on it and be selfish. I want to think long term on how we can help this next generation of Christian filmmakers to make a big impact for God.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Christian, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Trying to get your sexual partner to make a monogamous commitment to you is not a loving thing to do; it's selfish.

  Chester Brown

  Commitment, Trying, Partners

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Christians, like everyone else, are prone to be selfish and scared, and wanting others to think well of them. So, although we possess what one part of us knows is the greatest news in the world, we don't act as though it is. Consequently, we share the gospel less than we should.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Thinking, News

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• The left think that this special place in the world, the United States of America, it just happened. It just is. And it's our responsibility, as those who are lucky and fortunate enough, to happen to have been born here. It is incumbent upon us to share that same luck and good fortune with everybody else. Otherwise we are mean, selfish, polarized, partisan, extremist, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, whatever.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When fear sets in, you don't trust others and when you don't trust anyone then you become selfish.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Don't Trust Anyone, Trust Others, Don't Trust

  Source: www.rfa.org

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• I think there are different kinds of elites. I think there are venal elites, and self-interested elites, and selfish elites, and I think there are visionary elites.

  Thomas Friedman

  Thinking, Different, Visionaries

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.

  Thomas Friedman

  Real, Role Models, Leader

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• If you have a billion Muslims, 900 million of them were not brought into Islam by any kind of invasion, but most of them through the Sufis, because human beings are such that they are affected by people of spiritual character. Certainly when they display nobility and hospitality and gentility and love and are not selfish or aggressive, and they are honest.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Character, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I believe that women are many different types of people. There are brave women, there are cowardly women, there are altruistic women, there are selfish women. Most people are a combination of the same.

  George R. R. Martin

  Believe, People, Brave

  Source: thesource.com

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• That's always been my approach, to expose what's going on and what's not being said. I could go the selfish route, and probably make a whole lot more money, but that's not what it's about, it's about speaking for people who can't speak for themselves.

  Ice Cube

  People, Speak, Said

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I've learned a lot just being around people who grew up so differently from me, which is cool. It teaches you how to be a lot more tolerant. The bigger your world is, the more tolerant and accepting you become, because you have friends from all walks of life. You learn to be a little bit less selfish.

  Michael Che

  People, Littles, Just Being

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A selfish person says, hey, me and my four at home and no more and whatever happens to you is OK. But it can't be that way. It cannot be that way.

  Alveda King

  Home, Four, Way

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• Playing Sally McKenna was a wonderful, freeing thing because we all in life have so many responsibilities to ourselves, to other people, that we rarely get to explore a very selfish side of ourselves in doing what we want, when we want, how we want, without answering to or being responsible for anyone else.

  Sarah Paulson

  Responsibility, People, Wonderful

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Love is a balance between independence and interdependence. In love, you want to be independent and interdependent. You want to be a little bit selfish and a little bit selfless. Love can be an antidote to loneliness, as long as there is some aloneness in it.

  Bruce Feiler

  Loneliness, Love You, Independent

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

  Greg LeMond

  Years, Wife, Ego

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• What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those who are people that no one feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say 'enough,' they are called selfish.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sorry, People, Giving

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• After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Nature, Years, White

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.

  Demi Lovato

  Believe, Thinking, Would Be

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