#selfish

You have to be selfish to be an actor. ↗

— Charles Dance

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#i do #just #selfish

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

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But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can't give her that. So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it's just been easier to be single. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

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A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action. ↗

— David Seabury

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The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish. ↗

— Gene Simmons

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