Tony Dorsett Quotes

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

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• What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Question
  • Realize

• I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Lost
  • Hurt
  • Realize

• There are signs that the Arab states are beginning to realize that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to the entire region, and not just to Israel.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Beginning
  • Realize
  • Israel

• But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Look
  • Place
  • Realize

• I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Feel

• What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • People
  • Because
  • Realize

• I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Children
  • Always
  • Selfish

• California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Effort
  • California

• When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very sensitive creature. That is your charge. That's primal. I relate to that deeply.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Realize
  • Mission

• Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Win
  • Selfish
  • Group

• I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Beautiful
  • Simple
  • Personality

• There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Point
  • Realize
  • Got

• I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Sound
  • Selfish

• 'If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Joy
  • Selfish

• The citizen in the Fascist State is no longer a selfish individual who has the anti-social right of rebelling against any law of the Collectivity.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Law
  • Selfish

• How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.

  

  Adam Smith
  • May
  • Nature
  • Selfish

• Players need to come in and not take the opportunity for granted and really work hard at the game and make sure it's a team game, it's not a selfish thing. If players have those qualities - they work hard, they're selfless, they put the team before them - I have no issues with them.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Work
  • Game
  • Opportunity

• I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • World
  • Live
  • May

• I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Man
  • Always
  • Sound

• The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Respect
  • Style

• Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • America
  • Political
  • Fate

• Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

  

  Tony Dorsett
  • Selfish
  • Realize
  • Tragedies