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. – Ashley Greene
It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons. – Allen West
It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past. – Bulent Ecevit
I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’ – Bernie Mac
The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could’ve done that better. – Andy Roddick
I’ve never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish? – Alex Honnold
Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I’ve been privileged to meet and work with. – Chelsea Clinton
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. – Anna Deavere Smith
I know I’m not a selfish player. People around me know I’m not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I’m not a selfish player. – Carmelo Anthony
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires – and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. – Arthur Peacocke
Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish. – Aisha Tyler
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! – Abbas Kiarostami
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. – Bryant H. McGill
I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I’d have so much fun tweeting. It’s become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts. – Bill Simmons
I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She’s selfish, she’s childish, she’s immature and because I’m doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times. – Amber Benson
It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers make those kind of films is the best way to do it. – Anurag Kashyap
I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do. – Maria Bello
I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly. – Paul Giamatti
I’m amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long. – Mark McKinnon
There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself. – P. J. O’Rourke
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
I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way. – David Bowie
We make music for a living. Like I’ve always said, if you like what you’re doing, you’re halfway there; if someone else likes it, that’s even better. If they don’t like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be. – Eddie Van Halen
I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity. – MaryJanice Davidson