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  1. Shailene Woodley:

    Ultimately I think we make these movies for selfish reasons for ourselves - just to be actors and artists to be able to express. But when people receive them, there is something very gratifying.

  2. Amanda Murff:

    While it's sweet, it's selfish and rude. He completely disregarded other people's lives, what if there was a woman in labor, someone driving to the er, someone trying to get to a wedding of their own, an interview, ANYTHING ...? You can't just stop a busy highway to be romantic. That's silly ...

  3. Jen Aniston:

    You may not have a child come out of your vagina, but that doesn't mean you aren't mothering—dogs, friends, friends' children. this continually is said about me: that I was so career-driven and focused on myself; that I don't want to be a mother, and how selfish that is.

  4. Gustave Flaubert:

    To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

  5. John Updike:

    The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

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