Greedy Quotes - Page 8

• People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.

  Laurence Sterne

  People, Treasure, Too Much

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• I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don't think they're particularly smart at all.

  Ben Stein

  Wall, Smart, Thinking

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• My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Mother, Father, Childhood

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• As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

  Jayni Chase

  Selfish, People, Decision

  "Jayni Chase: Founder, Center for Environmental Education Interview: Chip Comins". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Keep spreading the love, world. But don't get greedy and overpopulate the planet.

  Allen Evangelista

  World, Planets

  "Allen Evangelista – Project Almanac Actor: Maintaining Perspective". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whisky, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops . . . I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you'll think of me, I'll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.

  Raymond Chandler

  Smart, Thinking, Hatred

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• It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if you're greedy and you're not satisfied with $500,000 a year, and you want $2 million a year, then you will suffer as a conscious rap artist.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Artist, Years

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Powerful, Champion, Faces

  "Elizabeth Edwards: 'With Less Armor Than I Have, They Fight Too'". Elizabeth Edwards' speech at Consumer Watchdog’s 2007 Rage for Justice dinner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2010.

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• This is what poems are:
  with mercy
  for the greedy,
  they are the tongue's wrangle,
  the world's pottage, the rat's star.

  Anne Sexton

  Stars, Poetry, World

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

  Sylvia Earle

  Generations, Favors, Planets

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's the complex categorization of low warmth/high competence. This is the hostile stereotype of Asian Americans by white America, of Jews in Europe, of Indo-Pakistanis in East Africa, of Lebanese in West Africa, of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia, and of the rich by the poor most everywhere. It's the same low-high derogation: They're cold, greedy, clannish - -but, dang, they're sure good at making money and you should go to one who is a doctor if you're seriously sick.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Doctors, Europe, White

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• What [Margaret Thatcher] made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.

  Hilary Mantel

  Play, Community, Enemy

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

  Hilary Mantel

  Self, Denial, Paradox

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• It's always nice to want money and keep doin' what you gotta do to get it, but do not be greedy.

  Lil' Kim

  Nice, Want

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• To a greedy eating horse a short halter.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Eating

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.326, [s.n.]

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• That's one thing about me: I'm not greedy. I buy things for my friends if I buy them for myself. I make sure my friend's rent is paid.

  Lil' Kim

  My Friends, Paid, One Thing

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• When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is, perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Hate, Men, Omission

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• Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Men, Greed

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.355

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• I wanted to feel like I could extend someone else's joy and not crush it, and that is the giant paradox nowadays of being a powerful woman: you want to live in a space of compassion and helpfulness and joy and expression, and the world is standing there, pointing the finger at you and telling you that you're greedy and domineering and attention-grabbing, and all you can do is shrug and just say, "Hopefully, someone out there understands and isn't misinterpreting."

  Amanda Palmer

  Crush, Powerful, Compassion

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There are are some dirty, greedy people out there, and unfortunately I know some.

  Richard Patrick

  Dirty, People, Knows

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• It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Fun, Attitude, Book

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 07, 2016.

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• Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on the productive capacities of society, but which is of no direct benefit to anyone - not even to the greedy themselves, whose illusory chase after a will-o-the-wisp leaves them morally bankrupt and unhappy.

  Allen W. Wood

  Ambition, Greed, Unhappy

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

  Charlie Pierce

  Reckless, Violent, American Life

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not the same as the capitalist welfare states that have existed in some European countries.

  Kshama Sawant

  Country, Different, World

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Men, Charity, Care

  Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

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