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“I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.”

“David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism - he thought it was lazy and self-serving.”

People Real Self Powerful Ordinary Lays Journalism Uncomfortable Lazy Serving Ordinary People Self Serving Bigfoot

Author:Jonathan Yardley

“Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self.”

Mind Self Force Natural Emotion Selfishness Motive Serving Self Serving

Author:Walter J Chantry

“self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).”

Self Sin Sacrifice Abuse Seven Pity Deception Serving Self Deception Self Pity Self Sacrifice Loathing Self Loathing Self Serving Deadly Sins Seven Deadly Sins

Book:Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.”

Source: Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington

“A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.”

Source: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

“The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war entered the scene and we are still suffering the consequences of a man-driven, self-serving, short-sighted environment.”

“Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.”

People Book Self Facts Wish Months Ten Serving Proven Wish You Self Serving

Author:Randy Pausch

“Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.”

Self Jobs Enjoy Company Worst Findings Performances Assuming Miserable Serving Suspects Entertaining Outlook Amused Treacherous Self Serving Capricious Kitchen Confidential

Book:Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw

Source: Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw

“The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.”

Doe Self Values Absurd Serving Inflation Rendering Self Serving Value Of Money

Book:Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush

Source: Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush

“Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.”

People Self Beautiful Situation Depth Serving Superficial Self Serving

Author:Diane Keaton

“Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.”

“I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.”

Book Self Dream Boring Serving Suspicious Self Serving

Author:Jill Alexander Essbaum

“You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain discourse or a certain arena of questioning, regarding how you would deal with things that your character has to deal with. Whereas when you're doing a film, once you start asking, "What would I do?," you're getting the distance greater between yourself and the character, or you're bringing the character to you, which I think is self-serving, in the wrong way. The idea is to bring yourself to the character.”

Thinking Way Ideas Self Character Film Certain Deals Audience Greater Members Asking Distance Serving Questioning Discourse Arena Objectivity Wrong Way Self Serving Provoked

Author:Colin Farrell

“[Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie.”

“I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self serving factors around ego satisfaction and "making a buck". My motives and values are very different.”

Different Self Helping Values Opinion Succeed Ego Entrepreneur Investing Satisfaction Driven Factors Motive Serving Bucks Self Serving

Author:Ron Conway

“Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself, trying to understand, comfort, and strengthen yourself.”

Way Trying Self Care Love You Comfort Serving Love Yourself Take Care Of Yourself Self Serving Egocentric

Book:Telling Secrets

Source: Telling Secrets

“Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to be a self-serving autonomous activity that takes possession of you and runs your life.”

Thinking Self Running Lost Behinds Awareness Activity Possession Cease Serving Autonomous Self Serving

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.”

Self Intellectual Criticism Posts Nonsense Serving Bullshit Literary Criticism Self Serving Bunk

Author:John Fante

“But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because I am running from things that can destroy my soul: complacency, comfort, and ignorance. I am much more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.”

Soul Self Running Jesus Failing Risk Ignorance Comfort Comfortable Destruction Tragedy Illness My Soul Uncertainty Midst Serving Terrified Complacency Self Serving Comfortable Life

Author:Katie Davis

“I am more more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.”

Self Jesus Failing Comfortable Tragedy Illness Serving Terrified Self Serving Comfortable Life

Book:Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

Source: Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

“There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.”

Real Self Elements Hip Hop Hips Hops Serving Real Self Self Serving Life Span

Author:John Mayer

“Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.”

People Self Differences Politician Asking Perceive Serving Reporters Narcissistic Asking Questions Self Serving

Author:Michael Crichton

“I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting.”

Thinking Self Serving Disgusting Self Serving

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion to a person, and that there's a mixture of both in there. It's just I think that's a little more true to life. It's not always purely one way or the other.”

Thinking Way Wells Littles Persons Self Bits Little Bit Complicated Devotion One Way Serving Mixtures True Life Self Serving Complicated Relationship

Author:Lisa Kudrow

“The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social animals like dolphins, wolves or, for that matter, primates.”

Self Matter Social Animal Struggle Survival Series Blow Serving Dolphins Self Serving Primates Struggle For Survival

Author:Frans de Waal

“Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.”

Years Has Beens Self Problem Lying Suffering Saws Consequence Patterns Serving Warning Persistent Pathetic Refrain Self Serving Looming

Book:The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t

Source: The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t

“Watching our entire country implode under the self-serving ideologies of those so eager to claim everything but the Constitution as their guide leaves at least half of us without a home. We may live on the same land, but our nation and the citizens of that nation have been exiled into a national wilderness.”

May Has Beens Self Country Home Nations Half Land Citizens Constitution Claims Guides Ideology Wilderness Serving Self Serving

Author:Larisa Alexandrovna

“Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.”

Self Stories Wanted Actors Watches Vain Serving Storyteller Bully Obnoxious Self Serving

Author:Paul Bettany

“What we get in punk these days is the "anti-anti": Someone comes up with something, then the next generation is against that, and then the next generation is against that, and then that thing becomes a problem. There's these layers of anti-, and so many of them are just so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.”

Self Problem Next Generations Come Up These Days Serving Punk Layers Next Generation Self Serving

Author:Geoff Rickly

“What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.”

Self These Days Serving Punk Layers Self Serving

Author:Geoff Rickly

“Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization would probably flunk. We have a very convenient and self-serving way of defining intelligence. If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.”

Ifs Way Doe Self Reason Understanding Animal Example Civilization Tests Instinct Western Serving Relative Defining Convenient Western Civilization Self Serving

Book:Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth

Source: Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth

“[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.”

Self Reason Hands Enemy Conflict Intellectual Serving Inquiry Avoidance Maidens Self Serving

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

“In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our companions will be given to us by grace. Often they will be persons who will upset our settled view of self and world. In fact, we might define true community as the place where the person you least want to live with always lives”

World Want Persons Self Facts Might Choices Given Community Views Grace Upset Motive Companion Serving Our Choices Self Serving

Author:Parker J. Palmer

“As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and are self-serving.”

People Self Problem Government Force Taken Ignorance Solve Serving Incentives Monopoly Incompetence Self Serving Unqualified

Author:John Stossel

“Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what's good for you is good for the wider civilization and rationalizing all these ridiculous conclusions based on this subconscious tendency to serve one's self is a terribly inaccurate way to think.”

Thinking Way Want Self Courses Civilization Ridiculous Tendencies Conclusion Serving Bias Subconscious Self Serving

Author:Charlie Munger

“Of course you want to drive that out of yourself because you want to be wise, not foolish. You also have to allow for the self-serving bias of everybody else because most people are not going to remove it all that successfully, the human condition being what it is. If you don't allow for self-serving bias in your conduct, again you're a fool.”

People Ifs Want Humans Self Courses Wise Conditions Fool Foolish Remove Serving Human Condition Bias Being Wise Self Serving

Author:Charlie Munger

“Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.”

Has Beens Self Able Goal Class Century Profit Motive Serving Occupation Merchants Animosity Self Serving

Author:James Cook

“If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.”

Ifs Self Fool Serving Bias Self Serving

Author:Charlie Munger

“The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You don't know how much you can trust your memory. You don't want it to be self-serving. And you have all these issues about how to present yourself. All these factors make it harder to do than a novel.”

People Knows Want Self Feelings Problem Difficult Hurt Memories Novel Know How Issues Harder Factors Extras Serving Autobiography Our Memories Self Serving

Author:Richard Hell

“I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I wonder why there aren't more, better sports novels.”

Thinking Kind Self Sports Wonder Novel Rich Serving Self Serving

Author:Chad Harbach

“When you meet silent and inscrutable people, don't tell them what you are thinking. When you meet irritable and self-serving people, be careful what you say.”

People Thinking Self Silent Careful Taoism Serving Be Careful Self Serving Inscrutable Careful What You Say

Author:Zicheng Hong

“I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.”

People Thinking Self Serving Greedy Self Serving Lustful

Author:Park Dietz

“I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.”

People Self Millions Media Politician Corporations Candidates Serving Misinformation Self Serving Troll

Author:Neil Young

“The technology is available to us today to begin the transition to 100 percent renewable energy. What is keeping us from making that transition is nothing more than misinformation, a lack of knowledge by most people of what is available, and an unwillingness on the part of many of our politicians for either ideological slavishness or something more self-serving, like major campaign contributions from the oil and gas corporations or from utilities who enjoy the monopoly they have on our energy systems.”

“If we cover a court case involving a murderer, we would still seek out the side of that murderer, even as we realize that what people say is going to be self-serving.”

People Ifs Stills Self Sides Realizing Cases Court Serving Murderer Involving Self Serving Court Cases

Author:Rukmini Maria Callimachi

“Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.”

Self Philosophy Masters Serving Muse Self Serving

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.”

Self Seems Suffering Reading Right Now Serving Self Serving

Author:Richard Rohr

“The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.”

Has Beens Self Bigs Government President Results Powerful Politician Disaster Agendas Serving President Obama Tested Bureaucrats Big Government Self Serving

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don’t need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.”

Needs Looks Self Facts Might Example Behavior Capitalism Wide Harm Serving Disregard Gluttony Self Serving

Author:Simon Mainwaring

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