"I have to look at myself now and be selfish in what I want to do, " he said.
But what I love about television, I guess I have to be selfish, are the hours the most.
The aristocracy might be selfish and sometimes cruel, but it's also witty, cultivated, mannerly and effortlessly elegant and self-assured.
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You may change jobs, you may change vocations and you may volunteer for free, but there is nothing that says you work most of your life and then get to be selfish for the next 20 years.
How could a role model be so selfish as to put her body before a baby?
One interpretation of all this might be that selfish people find it easier to become rich.
With all the rhetoric swirling around this election season, Americans may be less selfish than many cynical political leaders believe.
So the notion of "Homo economicus, " schooled by capitalism to be shortsightedly selfish, is these days something of a straw man ("Homo stramineus"?).
Narcissists might be annoying and even downright selfish, but they may be the best bet when bold and unconventional actions are needed to save an organization.
When picked apart, they also turn out to be based on selfish genery.
Can you be greedy, selfish, dismissive or downright mean?
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And no matter how selfish our current capitalistic model may be, it is not as selfish as mercantilism and mercantilism was not as selfish as its own predecessor, feudalism.
Based on what is known, he appears to be so heartless and selfish that he considered his career prospects in the football program more important than stopping an apparent act of child abuse.
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Behaviorists reject the classic economic theory of human beings as ultra-rational self-interested actors and, drawing on psychology, examine the causes of seemingly irrational economic choices, such as not taking advantage of money offered in an employer-provided retirement plan or giving away more money to charity than can be explained by purely selfish motives.
So selfish elements should be welcomed in such lineages if evolvability is a net benefit.
While this is the case, America will be seen rightfully as a selfish hypocrite, regardless of the noble principles which it claims to espouse.
Michael Dell is acting selfish, to be polite, looking out for himself only while putting the screws to those who have believed and stood by him board meeting after board meeting.
Her visit to a smug, shallow man about to be knighted will radically change his selfish, well-ordered world.
Evil is epitomized by these greedy and selfish forces that must be brought under control to serve common interests.
Members vow to be generous where once they had been selfish, faithful where treacherous, honest where deceitful.
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This should not be confused with revenge, an essentially selfish and so un-Christian reaction.
"We have very selfish reasons for wanting to be a role model, " Chambers says, his cheery West Virginia twang infected with a bit of swagger and a ton of iron-will certainty.
But over the past couple years, I've noticed a troubling cycling trend, a selfish behavior that seems to be increasing, as more and more people feel secure and hop on bikes.
Which is why Armitage argues that China development power has fallen flat: Until China stands for something other than itself, Beijing will continue to be viewed in the international community as being selfish and its motives suspect.
"I can't imagine what these egotistical, selfish and moody brats are going to be like when they grow up, " says one school counselor.
Unless, that is, everyone around you knows that to offer you a drink would be not just a bad idea but a hugely selfish and dangerous one.
The book is a polemic, and its main target is what Mr de Waal takes to be a distorted idea of human life as relentlessly selfish and ruthlessly competitive.
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