Denis Leary Quotes

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

me-firstism

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

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!

The only one that matters is me. I am the only one that matters.

I am a greedy, selfish actor, and for me, my role is important.

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.