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The self is hateful.

Blaise Pascal

Self

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Theodore Parker

Self

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

Sarah Jessica Parker

Self

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

I had low self-esteem.

Jennifer O'Neill

Self

When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

Joyce Carol Oates

Life

Self

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.