Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.
The funny thing about the people I don't like - they're very self-centered.
It can get really messy inside my head, and it's usually just because everybody can get really self-centered at some point. And so what usually keeps me from quitting is that my reasons for quitting are just lame. I wouldn't want anybody else to talk to myself the way that I talk to myself.
Actors are inherently self-centered.
As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect.
Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
It might sound very cocky or naive of me, or self-centered, but I want to win a World Cup for my country.
Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.
