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Author:Diane Abbott

“I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company.”

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Author:Howard Schultz

“There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.”

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Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis - only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy. (pg. 44, "The Unsettling of America")”

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Author:Wendell Berry

“You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don’t edge others out, you don’t demand your rights, and you aren’t self-serving when you’re surrendered.”

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Author:Rick Warren

“Why else is politics the perfect refuge for every liar, cheat, and self-serving toad that was ever born? All you need is a good set of teeth and the ability to smile convincingly with them. --Cressida”

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Book:The Icemark Chronicles #3: Last Battle of the Icemark

Source: The Icemark Chronicles #3: Last Battle of the Icemark

“At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and skill of others. Nothing more.”

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Book:Magic Strikes

Source: Magic Strikes

“The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.”

“Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton”

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Author:Veronica Roth

“People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.”

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Author:Marisha Pessl

“Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.”

“If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.”

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Author:Susan Sarandon

“Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or dishonest 'scientific' reports, Livermore cheers for 'nukes forever' and a huge amount of self-serving noise on every subject from global warming to 'the face of God'.”

“A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial role of museum professionals usurped by self-serving tycoons in the name of economic imperative threatens not only the integrity of individual institutions but the very principle of art held in public trust.”

“Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.”

“But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective scientific method, with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots, is self-serving mythology.”

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Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth”

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Book:A New Society: Reflections for Today's World

Source: A New Society: Reflections for Today's World

“The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.”

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Author:Aldrich Ames

“As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.”

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Author:Mark Hatfield

“The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.”

“But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.”

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Author:Banksy

“For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.”

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Author:Magnus Carlsen

“The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.”

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Author:Ginny Brown-Waite

“It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.”

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Author:Paul Harvey

“I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.”

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Author:Steven Moffat

“But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.”

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Author:Mark Strand

“New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.”

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Author:Liam Fox

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