You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.
Henry Cabot Lodge
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I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.
George Weah
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You can't be selfish in this game. You've got to know, at the end of the day, that it's all about winning. And when you win, everybody looks good.
Jimmy Butler
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Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.
Jessica Capshaw
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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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It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew Jackson
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I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
Charles Dudley Warner
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I'd have so much fun tweeting. It's become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts.
Bill Simmons
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It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.
Alessandro Nivola
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Our true passions are selfish.
Stendhal
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee Williams
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Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.
Tony Dorsett
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I'm a good uncle, but I'm not a great caretaker. I feel oftentimes pretty selfish within the relationships I have with my siblings and, historically, with what I give back versus what I've taken over the years.
Nick Kroll
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The reason I'm a writer is to understand other people and myself more. The reason I'm a writer is to dramatize stories about human beings so that it improves my life. So that's a very selfish thing.
Mike O'Malley
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I work very hard, but I also really enjoy time with my family as well. So I take everything as it comes, but I really am very selfish about my family time.
Katie Holmes
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I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.
Michael Shermer
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I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.
Harry Chapin
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I'm not selfish at all.
Judy Gold
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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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Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.
Janos Kadar
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It's true that being in an individual sport, you have to be a little bit selfish.
Victoria Azarenka
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