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The idea that one might use art for 'instrumental' reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it's not a pill, that it shouldn't be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to 'cheer you up' or to 'make you a more empathetic person.'

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Alarm Art Asked Bells Cheer Contend Cultural Egocentric Elite Empathetic Function Heart Idea Instrumental Make Might More Off Perform Person Pill Reasons Set Some Something Specific Tends Up Use Who You

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I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.

~Ana Tijoux

Topics: Always Been Creativity Deciding Egocentric Feel Feeling Just Language Liberation More More And More Nothing Prisoner Publishing Reflections Same Same Time Senses Shy Simple Small Some Something Songs Thoughts Time Very Ways I Feel

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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.

~Andrea Corr

Topics: Care Degree Egocentric Family Loved Loved Ones Me Most Much Need Thing Understand Very World I Care

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Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.

~Bo Bennett

Topics: About Always Being Being Human Consumed Desires Egocentric Human Just May Most Necessarily Other Our Own People Thinking Thoughts Us Want

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People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

~Bob Newhart

Topics: Defeated Egocentric Humble Humor Less Moments More People Realistic Sense Sense Of Humor Success Tend Times View World

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Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad.

~David Grann

Topics: Base Breed Considered Egocentric Even Mad Often Own Reckless Touch

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