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• It is hard even for the most selfish man to eat fish in the darkness.

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• I’m not a selfish actor. I believe that it’s a team effort. You’re not in a scene by yourself.

  Taraji P. Henson

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  Tags in Selfish, Scene

• Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

  Lee Strobel

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  Tags in Selfish, Immorality

• I don’t think there’s such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.

  Iyanla Vanzant

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  Tags in Selfish, Communication

• If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I’m definitely ruthless and selfish.

  Nicole Scherzinger

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  Tags in Ruthless, Selfish

• 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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  Tags in Rebuilt, Selfish

• 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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  Tags in Think, Selfish

• 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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  Tags in Marriage, Person, Selfish

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  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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  Tags in Time, Change, Selfish
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  What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

  Herbert Spencer

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