Selfish Quotes - Page 37

• I'm such a maniac about just having every last possible bit feel just as if so much care was put into it, and it was. It's almost like a really selfish experience to wear one of our slip dresses or one of our blouses because it's so luxurious in a secret way.

  Rumi Neely

  Feels Just, Secret, Care

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Force, Inevitable, Gravitation

  George Stillman Hillard (1853). “Six Months in Italy”, p.94

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• Even if all we have is a little, the Lord desires us to be joyfully generous, so that He will have for His church an abundance for every good work. Let us not be selfish or deceived by money. In a real sense, money is not a blessing; it's a test.

  Francis Frangipane

  Real, Blessing, Church

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• The soul lives forever by giving, not receiving. This is the grand paradox. You get most by giving most. Conversely, by receiving much you impoverish yourself. By selfish accumulation you become bankrupt.

  Julian Johnson

  Giving Not Receiving, Forever, Soul

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• Florey was not an easy personality. His drive and ambition were manifest from the day he arrived ... He could be ruthless and selfish; on the other hand, he could show kindliness, a warm humanity and, at times, sentiment and a sense of humour.

  Allen Drury

  Ambition, Science, Hands

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• When you're younger, you're more selfish, because there's so much self-exploration, you're in your own mind.

  Miley Cyrus

  Self, Mind, Exploration

  "The radical honesty of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Amanda Fitzsimons, www.elle.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I feel it's selfish when you don't use your voice, because then you're just relishing the attention - you're not using it for good.

  Demi Lovato

  Voice, Attention, Use

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.

  Pat Summitt

  Thinking, Sound, Records

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

  Michael Schur

  Motivation, People, Driven

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

  Jane Goodall

  Genes, Thesis, Courses

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I'm really excited about our DJ set. That's probably the most exciting of all. It's selfish but it's always your own thing that you're most concerned with.

  Jack Black

  Excited, Exciting, Concerned

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Stupid, People, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

  Indira Gandhi

  People, Complaining, Impossible

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

  Indira Gandhi

  Young

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Doctor Strange is selfish but he's still saving lives.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Doctors, Saving, Strange

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.

  Liza Campbell

  Character, People, Theme

  Source: newwest.net

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• I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

  Liza Campbell

  Art, Thinking, Eternal

  Source: newwest.net

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• It was about the compelling need to make countries get along to prevent war, in contrast with the totally petty and selfish bullshit that drives the individuals who are supposedly in charge of these countries. It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment.

  Jay Roach

  Country, War, Believe

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign countries, and broaden their own scope, and come back and educate the movements they represented, not only would this have made the groups to which they belonged more enlightened and more worldly in the international sense, but it also would have given the independent African states abroad a better understanding of the groups in the United States, and what they stand for, what they represent.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Independent, America

  Source: www.panafricanperspective.com

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• That's where you can find things and modulate your performance and give the other actors something fresh to respond to. We've probably all worked with actors who when it's suddenly your close up, they get sleepy. I don't like that. It's selfish acting, and I won't tolerate it.

  Denzel Washington

  Giving, Acting, Actors

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might be in a position to reciprocate your altruism.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Might, Individual

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that it means we are selfish or we should be selfish.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, People, Should

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I'm very selfish! I'm only thinking about how I would look in clothes, and not how we as a society might appear in those clothes.

  Alexa Chung

  Thinking, Clothes, Looks

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.

  Boy George

  Growing Up, Mean, Eye

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I can't say I've seen any formalized white supremacy grow. I was a selfish leader and never trained anybody to train over my group. It scattered when I left.

  Christian Picciolini

  Leader, White Supremacy, Train

  Source: chicagoist.com

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