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• We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Teacher, Live Life, Escaping

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• Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

  Herbie Mann

  Mean, Sacrifice, Looks

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• Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

  Herbie Mann

  Stubborn, Bad Things, Selfishness

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• The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.

  Dave Matthews

  Song, Kissing, Play

  "Q&A with Dave Matthews ahead of his 'concert and conversation' with the Dalai Lama". Interview with Marian Liu, www.seattletimes.com. April 11, 2008.

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• I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

  James McAvoy

  Travel, Sacrifice, World

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• I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.

  Alan Moore

  Children, Taken, World

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

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• The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

  Jose Mourinho

  World, Aggressive

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• In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

  Iris Murdoch

  Marriage, Giving, Demand

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.13, Penguin

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• I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

  Jo Nesbo

  Heart, Thinking, Down And

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• Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

  John Henry Newman

  Religious, Rewards, Sake

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• I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.

  David Nicholls

  Growing Up, Writing, Men

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• The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Sacrifice, Nurse

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• The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To live a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.

  Joel Osteen

  Christian, Integrity, Helping Others

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• All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Block, Real

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• Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

  Dennis Prager

  Media, People, Generations

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• Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

  Richard Pryor

  Like Love, Important, Family And Friends

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• False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Mean, Land, House

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• Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

  George Santayana

  Men, Overcoming, Inferiority

  "Little Essays Drawn from the Writings of George Santayana".

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• If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Believe, Want, Nicole

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• The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

  Gene Simmons

  Being Happy, People, Way

  "This much I know" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2004.

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• My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Mirrors, Doe, Theater

  "Anna Deavere Smith: Finding a Voice for the Cacophony That Is Los Angeles". Interview with Steve Proffitt, articles.latimes.com. July 11, 1993.

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• Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Mother, Choices, Decision

  "What Jada Pinkett Smith Gave Up for Her Family". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. July 11, 2011.

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• Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  People, Heaven, Networking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Views, Reform

  "Social insight rings true 125 years on" by Lee Altenberg, "Nature", vol. 490, p. 487, October 25, 2012.

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• If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sweet, Father, Glasses

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