Greedy Quotes

It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.
Julie Burchill

After, Sun, Making

I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next.
Shirley Manson

I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.
Florence Welch

Design, Career, Looking

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.
Caprice Bourret

Work, Hard, Big

I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.
Jonah Hill

Freedom, Movies, Stupid

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy.
Max von Sydow

Play, Old, Getting

I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.
Paula Radcliffe

Grateful, Everyone, Once

What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
Minnie Driver

Music, Play, Become

I'm not overly greedy.
Slash

Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?
Bernie Sanders

Fine, Street, Wall

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
Ingrid Newkirk

Often, Racing, Birds

You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.
Gina Carano

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
Beck

Bad, Name, Songs

I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
Christina Milian

Someone, Give, Else

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.
Craig Kilborn

Sensitive, Mankind, Needy

The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.
Dennis Hastert

Everything, Personal, Themselves

I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.
Gary Ackerman

Life, Blessed, Poor

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
Samantha Stosur

Enough, Easy, Tennis

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.
Norma McCorvey

Selfish, Worked

I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.'
James Harden

Life, Care, Loyalty

I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
Tanith Lee

Love, Writing, Through

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.
Louie Anderson

Money, Place, Quit

When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
Patrick Carney

Music, Two, Start

I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.
Tyne Daly

Put, Big, Sense

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.
Silvia Cartwright

Suffering, Seen, West

I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
Dana Snyder

There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.
Kirsty Coventry

Influence, Coming, Stronger

We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor.
Goodluck Jonathan

Person, Country, Rich

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.
Andrew Fastow

Lost, Moral, Compass

I believe I was extremely greedy.
Andrew Fastow

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