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I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!
Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.
I feel it's selfish when you don't use your voice, because then you're just relishing the attention - you're not using it for good.
Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love?
It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.
It is something of a miracle that individual selfish decisions (in a market economy) must lead to a collectively efficient outcome.
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.
But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.
Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.
The main problem I always have with multiplayer is that human beings are grabby, entitled, selfish, ugly, stupid, evil cockstoppers.
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people.
When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are gullible, anybody can convince them.
When I do things with people it's not with the hopes of them coming back because that would be a selfish reason for me to do anything.
I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.
I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.
Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.
It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.
Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.
I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.
I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
I know that love is real when it's not convenient, when it's not selfish, when it's challenged, sometimes even if it's not reciprocated.
Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates.
a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.
Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.
I'm selfish when it comes to work. I'm like, "Oh, that will be fun! I wanna do that!" I never think beyond my participation in a project.
Work, especially if you're lucky in what you do, is one of the great pleasures of life, but - like all pleasures - it can become selfish.
Getting married has shifted my focus, in such a profound way. You just realize, "Oh, I can't be so selfish anymore. There's someone else."
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
My wife at times will say I'm stubborn, selfish, insensitive, vague, deaf at times, blah, blah, blah... but she's never said I was boring!
Love is not selfish or unkind. Nor is it boastful or disloyal. Love is simply a deep feeling found within the heart that money cannot buy.
Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.
The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?
A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.
I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.
It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.
Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.