Selfish Quotes - Page 37

• If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we find new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Running, Taken, Men

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

  Douglas Leone

  Equity, Selfish Acts

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• What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason — instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it’s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods.

  David Simon

  Oedipus, People, Guy

  "Stealing Life" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2007.

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• I'm not saying I'm going to rule the world, I'm going to change the world. But I guarantee I will spark the brain that will change the world. And that's our job. It's to spark somebody else watching us. We might not be the one, but let's not be selfish. And because we['re] not going to change the world, not talk about how we should change it. I don't know how to change it. But I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody's going to clean it up!

  Tupac Shakur

  Jobs, Dirty, Talking

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• What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Heart, Men

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.155

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• It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Moving, Class, Two

  "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, p. 246, 1981.

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• Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.

  Andy Rooney

  Sorry, Thinking, Government

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• I'm really excited about our DJ set. That's probably the most exciting of all. It's selfish but it's always your own thing that you're most concerned with.

  Jack Black

  Excited, Exciting, Concerned

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.

  Pat Summitt

  Thinking, Sound, Records

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

  Michael Schur

  Motivation, People, Driven

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

  Jane Goodall

  Genes, Thesis, Courses

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign countries, and broaden their own scope, and come back and educate the movements they represented, not only would this have made the groups to which they belonged more enlightened and more worldly in the international sense, but it also would have given the independent African states abroad a better understanding of the groups in the United States, and what they stand for, what they represent.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Independent, America

  Source: www.panafricanperspective.com

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• Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Stupid, People, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

  Indira Gandhi

  People, Complaining, Impossible

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

  Indira Gandhi

  Young

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Doctor Strange is selfish but he's still saving lives.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Doctors, Saving, Strange

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.

  Liza Campbell

  Character, People, Theme

  Source: newwest.net

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• I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

  Liza Campbell

  Art, Thinking, Eternal

  Source: newwest.net

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• It was about the compelling need to make countries get along to prevent war, in contrast with the totally petty and selfish bullshit that drives the individuals who are supposedly in charge of these countries. It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment.

  Jay Roach

  Country, War, Believe

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• That's where you can find things and modulate your performance and give the other actors something fresh to respond to. We've probably all worked with actors who when it's suddenly your close up, they get sleepy. I don't like that. It's selfish acting, and I won't tolerate it.

  Denzel Washington

  Giving, Acting, Actors

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might be in a position to reciprocate your altruism.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Might, Individual

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that it means we are selfish or we should be selfish.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, People, Should

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I'm very selfish! I'm only thinking about how I would look in clothes, and not how we as a society might appear in those clothes.

  Alexa Chung

  Thinking, Clothes, Looks

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.

  Boy George

  Growing Up, Mean, Eye

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I can't say I've seen any formalized white supremacy grow. I was a selfish leader and never trained anybody to train over my group. It scattered when I left.

  Christian Picciolini

  Leader, White Supremacy, Train

  Source: chicagoist.com

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