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"A lot of the time, the British press make me ashamed and embarrassed to be British. They give others the impression that the British are selfish, envious and bitter people, which is simply not true in my opinion. I think that British people in general are really nice and friendly."
"I've learned a lot just being around people who grew up so differently from me, which is cool. It teaches you how to be a lot more tolerant. The bigger your world is, the more tolerant and accepting you become, because you have friends from all walks of life. You learn to be a little bit less selfish."
"Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch."
"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."
"I hate the standard of stupid and selfish driving we have in this country. We are the worst I've come across."
"Everybody wants to talk about NBA players being selfish and arrogant and individuals. But what you saw today was a team bonding and facing adversity and coming out with a big win."
"The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings."
"I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme."
"I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?"
"A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything."
