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I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I'm truly persuasive. -- Giancarlo Esposito
It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements. -- Michael K. Powell
I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do. -- Sally Field
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong. -- Lucian Freud
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions. -- Omar Bongo
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive. -- Gabrielle
It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be. -- Josh Radnor
Genuine kindness doesn't have ulterior motives. -- Zero Dean
Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives. -- Steig Larsson
Your love for me is transparent, no hidden agenda, no ulterior motive. -- Euginia Herlihy
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. -- Mother Teresa
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. -- Mother Teresa
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives. -- Paul Valery
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. -- Franz Kafka
if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives. -- Twyla Tharp
It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it. -- Eric Metaxas
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use. -- E. M. Forster
I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used. -- Eliot Porter
I'm not going to stop talking to people who come up to me in an airport. I'm not going to worry about what may be their ulterior motive. -- Rob Lowe
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives. -- Albert Camus
Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding. -- John Fairclough
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way. -- Frederick Lenz
Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way. -- Frederick Lenz
I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general. -- Deborah Turbeville

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