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• I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly.

  Paul Giamatti

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• I’ve dated athletes before but it’s too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.

  Tyson Gay

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  Tags in Selfish, Problem

• It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

  Bulent Ecevit

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• You have to be selfish to be an actor.

  Charles Dance

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• The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

  Florence Nightingale

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• Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin’ to borrow money. I’ve always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Family, Money

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• It’s also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I’ve been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That’s why we’re here, after all, to help others.

  Carol Burnett

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• Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

  Erich Fromm

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

  Richard Whately

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• What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

  Herbert Spencer

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• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

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• I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.

  DeForest Kelley

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• Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

  George Santayana

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• When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

  Tennessee Williams

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• Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

  William Cowper

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• In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

  Iris Murdoch

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• The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

  Frances Wright

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• 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.

  Cesar Romero

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• I think we are living in selfish times. I’m the first one to say that I’m the most selfish. We live in the so-called ‘first world,’ and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

  Javier Bardem

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• We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

  Mortimer J. Adler

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