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• I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.

  DeForest Kelley

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• It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

  Bulent Ecevit

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• In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

  David Brin

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• I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

  David Bowie

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• In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

  Iris Murdoch

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• The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We’re all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

  Gene Simmons

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• There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

  Daniel Smith

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• I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly.

  Paul Giamatti

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• The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

  Frances Wright

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  Tags in Selfish, Generous, Interest

• I’ve dated athletes before but it’s too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.

  Tyson Gay

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• The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

  Florence Nightingale

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• Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

  George Santayana

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• Childlessness doesn’t make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

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• Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

  Andrew Mason

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  What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

  Herbert Spencer

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• Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin’ to borrow money. I’ve always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

  Richard Pryor

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• I’m a selfish, little pig of a man.

  Lewis Black

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• I’ve never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

  Hugh Jackman

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• Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

  Romario

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• 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

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  Tags in Selfish, Back, Place