Selfish Quotes
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Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?
Katherine Boo
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We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.
Bryan Cranston
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I'm selfish.
Kendrick Lamar
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I don't want to sacrifice my life, as I feel that I'm still very selfish and still want to pursue my dreams.
Joanna Krupa
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Do we have the right now to tell them that when Saint Francis begged the Lord to teach him to want to console instead of seeking to be consoled - to teach him to want to love instead of desiring to be loved - that he was really being selfish? Because he knew the only way to be fulfilled and pleased and happy was to give instead of trying to get.
Mario Cuomo
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An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.
Peter Frampton
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The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Catwoman isn't a 'joiner.' She's a solo operator. She isn't naturally heroic; she's fairly selfish.
Ann Nocenti
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Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.
George A. Moore
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Some books inspire one to read, and some inspire one to write; for selfish reasons, I'm always looking for the latter.
Andrew Sean Greer
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Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.
David Grinspoon
