Self Serving Quotes

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You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. — Diane Abbott
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. — William J. Clinton
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by… — Martin Gardner
Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or dishonest… — Leo Kadanoff
What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial… — Martin Filler
Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to… — James C. Collins
But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply… — Stephen Jay Gould
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth — Che Guevara
The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people. — Aldrich Ames
As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith. — Mark Hatfield
The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in… — Anne Rice
But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way.… — Banksy
For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows… — Magnus Carlsen
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups. — Ginny Brown-Waite
Keep in mind the public has been brainwashed, and nearly 80% of what is known about me is fantasy and self serving theories of the… — John Wayne Gacy
It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each otherâ€™s pockets… — Paul Harvey
The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives… — Harlan Ellison
I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write… — Steven Moffat
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving. — Mark Strand
It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be… — Sean Parker

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