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I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.
You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.
A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.
In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.
You get to a point where you get tired of being stupid and selfish and not being honest with yourself.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.
To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.
I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?
I think it's selfish to go out partying all the time, especially if you have little ones in your family.
A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.
Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.
I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.
True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object.
Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts.
It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.
You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.
Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.
I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways.
Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart.
For me, to say I want to go to sleep and retire and prepare for my afterlife, I think that is very selfish.
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
People have become so selfish that they no longer care for others, or anything other than their own welfare.
When you're younger, you're more selfish, because there's so much self-exploration, you're in your own mind.
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.
The idea that affable Boris[Johnson] is actually divisive, selfish and unreliable is Mr 's biggest weakness.
I don't want to sacrifice my life, as I feel that I'm still very selfish and still want to pursue my dreams.
...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick
But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.
I hate the standard of stupid and selfish driving we have in this country. We are the worst I've come across.
If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical.
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
I've been selfish over the years, and other people who have made it have too, but I can only speak for myself.
He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.
The best leaders don't set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be harder to achieve.
The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.
Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.
Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.