Selfish Quotes - Page 20

• I hate the standard of stupid and selfish driving we have in this country. We are the worst I've come across.

  Martin Shaw

  Country, Hate, Stupid

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Opportunity, Practice

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• Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society.

  David Ogilvy

  Advertising, Interest, Selfish Interest

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• Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Children, Liars

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• Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sympathy, Hunting, People

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• The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

  John Jay Chapman

  Growing Up, Philosophy, Lying

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply “alone.”

  Sara Maitland

  Lonely, Morning, People

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• War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.

  Eric L. Haney

  War, Men, Brave

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• It is something of a miracle that individual selfish decisions (in a market economy) must lead to a collectively efficient outcome.

  Steven Landsburg

  Decision, Miracle, Outcomes

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• If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Evil, Design, Tragedy

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• I think [G.W.] Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

  Harry Belafonte

  Believe, Thinking, Views

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• But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Crush, Character, Watches

  "20Q: Joseph Gordon-Levitt". Interview with Stephen Rebello, www.playboy.com. August 15, 2012.

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• People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don`t want to have children.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Children, Thinking, People

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• I just love it so much [acting]. When I get passionate, I’ll give you everything until I collapse. That’s not in any ’Look at me, I’m a saint’ kind of way. It’s very selfish in a way. I’m doing this really awesome exploration, and it’s like a drug, because I completely disappear.

  Ellen Page

  Giving, Drug, Acting

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• Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

  Paul Reiser

  Games, Two, People

  Paul Reiser (2011). “Couplehood”, p.186, Bantam

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• Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

  Sidney Poitier

  Insecure, Way, Weak

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• I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.

  Ryan Gosling

  Good Man, Mentor, Would Be

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• We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Eagles, Order

  The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

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• You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

  Sarah Brightman

  Art, Way

  The Independent, 1997.

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• We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we cut their throats, shred them and eat them! Morally, I’m against it, ethically, I can’t justify it, and ecologically, it’s just insane. The thought of meat-eating makes me shudder. As far as wearing fur is concerned, it is the rudest, most inconsiderate, selfish and sick façade I can imagine.

  River Phoenix

  Cutting, Animal, Meat Eating

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• Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.

  Kristen Stewart

  Moving, Forward In Life, Want

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• My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, `Hey stupid, can`t you speak English?` Now all those people work for me. Despite whatever circumstances I came across, I was always able to rise to the top and there`s only one way to do that - by being selfish, but also by believing in yourself. Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, `Do or do not. There is no try.

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, War, Stupid

  "This much I know" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2004.

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• Love is not selfish or unkind. Nor is it boastful or disloyal. Love is simply a deep feeling found within the heart that money cannot buy.

  April Haney

  Heart, Love Is, Feelings

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• Find time for thought, this is the source of strength.
  Find time for the game, this is the secret of eternal youth.
  Find time for reading, this is the Foundation of knowledge.
  Find time to be friendly, this is the road to happiness.
  Find time for dreams, they will pull your vehicle as the stars.
  Find time to love and be loved in return, this is the privilege of the gods.
  Find time to look around you, it's too short a day to be selfish.
  Find time to laugh this is the music of the soul.

  Giannis Ritsos

  Dream, Stars, Reading

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• The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides
  By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
  Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will,
  Shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness,
  For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
  And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger
  Those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.
  And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Brother, Children, Blessed

  "Fictional character: Jules". "Pulp Fiction", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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