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• if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Want, Belief

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trust, Pyramids, Smirk

  "Pyramids" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 171), January 2008.

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• A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.

  Orson Scott Card

  Stupid, Eye, Views

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• Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

  Gabrielle

  Children, Thinking, Men

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• The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

  Paul Valery

  Motive, Settlement, Treaties

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• So much of the time I'm cast as an asshole or a douchebag, or that kind of thing. I'd like to go back to just playing a guy with a good heart. Usually so much of my stuff is ulterior motives or a dark thing to it. Maybe that's what other people see in me, but I feel like I have a warm side, too, humor and fun. I'd like to play a little bit more of that. Feel-good stuff. Why not?

  Dan Amboyer

  Fun, Heart, Dark

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were. When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again. This is the way the self grows.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Self, Goal, Effort

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2013). “Flow: The Psychology of Happiness”, p.42, Random House

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• I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely change that - not arbitrarily at all but to completely change how that plays out based upon the needs of profitability. So it's totally unreliable and it has many layers nested underneath that of many ulterior motives nested underneath it.

  Jonathon Keats

  Play, World, Layers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Letting Go, Self, May

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• It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

  Eric Metaxas

  Principles, Easy, Motive

  Eric Metaxas (2011). “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy”, p.286, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career.

  Owen Jones

  People, Age, Motive

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.

  Jack Ruby

  People, Boards, World

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• My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

  Omar Bongo

  Country, Brother, Ambition

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• Who benefits from Wi-Fi? We all benefit from Wi-Fi. Is there an industry here? Of course, there is an industry, as well. The point is public health needs protecting. I don't think you should have to prove that there is some profiteer who might have an ulterior motive in order to protect public health.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Order, Should Have

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I'm not going to stop talking to people who come up to me in an airport. I'm not going to worry about what may be their ulterior motive.

  Rob Lowe

  Airports, Talking, People

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the people who are writing the legislation, because there are plenty of ulterior motives out there.

  Greg Graffin

  Strong, Smart, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are many ways to prescribe happiness but there is one way that is available to everybody, it's not very expensive ... it's very democratic, and everyone has acesss to it. It is: Find someone who needs help and help him for no ulterior motive.

  Yossi Vardi

  Needs, Way, Helping

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• I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.

  Deborah Turbeville

  Fashion, World, Photograph

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• When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

  Franz Kafka

  Mean, Evil, Trying

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• If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Jealous, People, Finding Happiness

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• If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, May, Self Centered

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• If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

  Mother Teresa

  Successful, Winning, Enemy

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• I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Would Be, Use

  "Lucian Freud Paintings". Book by Robert Hughes, 1982.

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