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I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
Do something today that you think is too delicious, too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life.
Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.
Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society.
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
The number one thing on any team that will keep your players from being selfish is respect for the other players.
One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work
I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.
I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
I realise that I need to be selfish at times as well as smart in decision-making and just not throw away my wicket.
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.
Yes, there will be situations when you may need to be a little selfish, but it is better to find the right balance.
Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.
We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.
Trying to get your sexual partner to make a monogamous commitment to you is not a loving thing to do; it's selfish.
Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.
Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.
Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
Fragrance is a bit of a selfish gift because it's comforting when you're near someone and you recognize their smell.
Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
Maybe I'm being selfish, but I choose you." He leaned over, lips brushing mine as he whispered, "I always choose you.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
I think perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain.
When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.
People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.
The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others
My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.
The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.
Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.