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" Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming. "

Alessandro Nivola

" A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God - more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth. "

Russell M. Nelson

" All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment. "

" 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. "

" All of us would like to have our children and their grandchildren grow up with at least the level of prosperity that we had. In the U.S., we seem to be very selfish because the older generation is not making the sacrifices. "

" All saints are selfish. "

" A lot of times, people think of selfish, and they think of offense, but you can be selfish on the defensive end of the floor, too. If you don't uphold your end of our schemes and your responsibilities within those schemes, then you're being just as selfish. "

J. B. Bickerstaff

" A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. "

Richard Whately

" A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. "

Leland Stanford

" And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away. "

" And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc. "

" An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. "

" As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, into our screwed-up world. "

" A selfish man is a thief. "

" A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. "

" At the end of the day, I live in Silicon Valley and L.A., and for selfish reasons, I'd love to have Los Angeles and San Francisco connected with the Hyperloop. "

Shervin Pishevar

" A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. "

Barbara Cartland

" Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view. "

" Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed. "

" Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity. "

" Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice. "

" Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing. "

" California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. "

" Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish. "

Elizabeth Gilbert

" Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals. "

" Congressional opposition to immigration reform or emergency funds doesn't stem from any philosophical objections or differences of principle. It stems from a calculated, petty, selfish rejection of anything Obama proposes. "

" Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact. "

" Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways. "

David Grinspoon

" Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up. "

" Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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