"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.
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.
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.
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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"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.
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.
In our noisy, over-stimulated, materialistic culture we are all longing to be moved by something bigger than our day to day selfish desires.
Why should we wear a hair shirt for people just as greedy and selfish as so many critics portray the West to be?
If you blow a scoring opportunity because you're selfish, you know the crowd are going to be baying for you, and you know who is going to be slammed in the paper the next day.
From a selfish point of view, the Assembly group will be fervently hoping that the voters take their pound of flesh (if the opinion polls continue as they are) at the General Election and then are able to approach them on their own merits a year later.
The key insight of the Zurich team is that both nice "Homo socialis" and nasty "Homo economicus" (the selfish boogeyman who supposedly reigns in classical economics) can be promoted by evolution under particular circumstances.
But to see it in these terms alone is to be, as Caplan points out on the cover of his book, selfish.
Consequences do flow from incorrect or selfish behavior but in the show, these are shown to be unexpected, hard to predict, and more to do with the loss of friendship than anything else, which in any context, is a disastrous outcome.
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