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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Art
Selfish
Experience
People
Married
Never
Because
Get
Get Married
Children
Should
Love is not selfish. Love is something else.
Morten Tyldum
Love
Selfish
Love Is
Else
Something
Something Else
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
Mortimer Adler
Love
Selfish
Own
Lust
Addition
Our
Pleasure
Sexual
Sexuality
Some
Give
Unbridled
Rather
Merely
Thus
Involved
Also
Than
Impulse
Want
Loved
Them
Persons
Use
Need
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 Adler
Good
Selfish
Others
Ourselves
Concerned
Altruistic
Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to make money. It satisfies our selfish interest but not our collective interest.
Muhammad Yunus
Beautiful
Business
Selfish
Money
Problems
Collective
Our
Solve
Only
Purpose
Never
Make
Very
Interest
Use
Mechanism
Satisfies
Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.
Nicholas Kristof
Selfish
Impossible
Behavior
Pleasures
Pretty
Purely
Because
Altruistic
Much
Derive
I'm a good uncle, but I'm not a great caretaker. I feel oftentimes pretty selfish within the relationships I have with my siblings and, historically, with what I give back versus what I've taken over the years.
Nick Kroll
Good
Great
Selfish
Uncle
Back
Relationships
Pretty
Give
Taken
Feel
Over
Within
Years
Versus
Historically
Oftentimes
Sibling
My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.
Nikki Reed
Life
Mom
Great
Selfish
Woman
Heart
World
Amazing
Assumed
Took
Herself
Everyone
On-Screen
Guilty
Would
Would-Be
Horrible
About
Crossed
Life Story
Open
Put
Feel
Great Thing
She
Real
Line
Screen
Being
Story
Hard
Being Selfish
Thing
Defend
I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.
Pablo Sandoval
Selfish
Job
Because
Always
Am
Very
Done
Where
Worked
Hard
I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players.
Pau Gasol
Game
Selfish
Enough
Further
More
Talent
Look
Because
Ball
Person
Move
Different
Use
Team
Team Game
Player
Players
Drugs are a very selfish thing.
Pete Doherty
Selfish
Very
Thing
An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.
Peter Frampton
Art
Selfish
Own
Otherwise
He
True
His
Artist
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.
Peter Hitchens
Life
Work
Great
You
Selfish
Become
Pleasures
Like
Lucky
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.
Peter Sotos
Selfish
Legal
Fears
Few
Publish
Books
Find
Distribution
Stuck
New
Ideas
Limbo
Issues
Were
Than
Blown
Blown Away
Wanted
While
Little
Them
Much
Hard
Who
Works
Away
Larger
Published
Publishers
Last
Numbers
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.
Phil McGraw
Truth
Selfish
Truth Is
Busy
Think
Society
Because
Now
I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song 'Selfish.'
PnB Rock
Selfish
Song
Singing
Out
Pretty
More
Towards
Came
Going
Much
Route
Started
I can give you a 'Selfish,' and I can still come give you, like, a 'Jealous.' I'm coming from the streets, but I can still give you personal situations and relationships that I've been in with females. You just never know; I'm just coming different.
PnB Rock
Jealous
You
Selfish
Relationships
Give
Never
Come
Like
Know
Females
Still
Coming
Been
Personal
Situations
Just
Different
Streets
We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself.
Renato Dulbecco
Attitude
Selfish
Dangerous
Society
Our
Ourselves
Abandoning
Would
See
Some
Similar
Risk
Take
Put
Contain
Like
House
Practices
Itself
Begun
May
Order
Banning
Experiments
Mankind
I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.
Rex Orange County
Music
You
Selfish
Yourself
Achieve
Stage
Releasing
Something
More
Drummer
Than
Front
Just
Being
Realized
Much
Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.
Richard Harding Davis
Time
Good
Selfish
Down
Enough
Everything
Months
Laugh
Run
Besides
Find
About
Glad
Idea
Feel
Make
Course
Deal
Fresh
Am
Off
Six
Anyone
Anything
Holiday
Cut
Harassed
Good Deal
Start
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Man
Selfish
Marriage
Fatty
Moral
Degeneration
Becomes
His
Being
Slack
I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Selfish
Possess
Attribute
Am
Artists
My first responsibility is to be selfish for New Jersey.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Selfish
Responsibility
First
New
New Jersey
Jersey
I'm not a selfish guy.
Romelu Lukaku
Selfish
Guy
The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it's easier when you yourself take on some of the traits of insanity. It's a job that requires the doer to be selfish, self-absorbed, and superficial.
Ryan Holiday
You
Selfish
Yourself
Job
Insanity
Easier
Some
Superficial
Take
Hazard
Self-Absorbed
Primary
Occupational
Doer
Blogging
Traits
Requires
Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Man
Selfish
Concord
Own
Seeks
Touched
General
His
End
Interest
Interests
Each
Each Man
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