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We all get self-centered.
Actors are inherently self-centered.
Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.
I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.
Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.
I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.
The funny thing about the people I don't like - they're very self-centered.
Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God
You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.
It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people.
I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
It might sound very cocky or naive of me, or self-centered, but I want to win a World Cup for my country.
Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.
It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
The baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country's ever produced.
When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered.
Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free
Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.
Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.
I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.
I don't think enough people admit that there's just something fun about being in front of people. And that's not a self-centered, egotistical thing.
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.
If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.
Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.
There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.
I love to put on frequency music or binaural beats to keep myself centered. It helps me with mental clarity, and it gives me a moment to breathe and be present.
I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.
I think I'm a better collaborator, in seeing the bigger picture and trying to just help that, and not be so self-centered in whatever my task is, which is being an actor.
We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.
My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of attention to me, and my mother was probably deflected more by my sister.
My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.
Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect.
I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.
I think people find it so easy to write off teenagers and millennials as just being like these shallow, self-centered people who don't have anything real going on and who are always just on their cell phones. But being a teenager is really hard.