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• Because life is short. I feel we’re made of a hunger, a desire for life – if that can be described as a material. As I get older, I’m trying to open that channel more. If you don’t, if you close off desire and get complacent, life loses its freshness and sweetness, and that’s what I crave. That’s my bliss.

  Sarah Slean

  Life Is Short, Desire, Trying

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• Don't be over complacent or too feverish, take a middle path.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspiring, Middle Path, Path

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• I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only faith can redeem them, though often the actual manner of the redemption is not immediately clear. They sin, but there is no limit to God's mercy and because this is important, there is a difference between not confessing in fact, and the complacent and the pious may not realize it.

  Graham Greene

  Character, Writing, Differences

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

  Mark Twain

  Self, Media, America

  Mark Twain (2000). “Mark Twain: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and Other Speeches”, Cooper Square Pub

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• Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Cancer, Lists, Things To Do

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• [Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if we don't give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don't use many.

  Harold Wilson

  Science, Government, Giving

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• Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Learn from the pros, observe them, seek them out as mentors and partners. But remember that even the pros may have leveled out in terms of their learning and skills. Sometimes even the pros can become complacent and lazy.

  Colin Powell

  Exercise, Skills, Challenges

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• There's still so much more to do. I can't sit back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around now in a wheelchair, but I get around.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Should, Wheelchairs, Stills

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

  Katie Couric

  Differences, Making A Difference, Crafts

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• I don't want to let my guard down and feel too comfortable. If you become complacent, you start feeling entitled. I'm ready to go dig ditches if I have to. Whatever I gotta do to provide for my family. Whatever I gotta do to make sure that I do the best possible job at whatever wonderful opportunities I've been handed.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Jobs, Opportunity, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's less energy. It's just very dry and dead. People start to feel like they're watching a movie. The environment when they walk into it, it's not standing room only, smoking and drinking and rock 'n' roll. So it's a little bit dangerous to do that.

  Jack White

  Drinking, Play, Rocks

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Heartbroken, Eye, Passion

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “A Little Princess”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

  Amber Heard

  Sweet, Charming Smile, Age

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• My whole life, people have been saying, "Why are you so angry?" and I didn't know what the hell they were talking about. After I saw myself at the MTV Awards, I realized, Wow, I do kind of come off a bit intense. I wasn't upset at MTV at all - I didn't mean to come off that way. But I think it's good if I appeared a bit angry. People are too complacent.

  Fiona Apple

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Long

  "Fictional character: Johnny". "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez, Volume 7, 1995 - 1997.

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• I just want to continue adding walls to my craft as an artist and business man. I never want to cap off, I never want to seal it. I just want to keep adding walls and keep on going as high as it can go, but I'm never gonna be boxed in, can't. That's when you lose because when you box yourself in, you know you get comfortable, you start getting complacent. I can't be like that.

  Eskeerdo

  Wall, Artist, Men

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

  Jodi Picoult

  Forgotten, Communicate, Nonverbal

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.

  Keri Arthur

  Fun, Views, Ordinary

  Keri Arthur (2006). “Full Moon Rising: A Riley Jenson Guardian Novel”, p.156, Bantam

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• As days lengthen into weeks and months and even years of adversity, the hurt grows deeper. The Church cannot hope to save a man on Sunday if during the week it is a complacent witness to the crucifixion of his soul.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Hurt, Adversity, Sunday

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• We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

  Abraham Flexner

  Play, Empathy, Liberty

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• A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.

  Harold Laski

  Loyalty, Healthy, Passive

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• They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then—how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Fall, Brave, Age

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• Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue to be restless. If we really carry the burden, we are driven to action. We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

  Wangari Maathai

  Giving Up, Suffering, Generations

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• People are getting tired of being constantly on edge. Maybe that means they do let down their guard or that they're complacent. What does it take to shake that? A 5% correction? A 10% one? Those kinds of declines are unfortunately something you put up with.

  John Manley

  Tired, Mean, People

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I think people are complacent. But complacency is like any other metric. It's easy to measure where it is, but it's hard to tell how persistent it is. What causes really big bear markets is not just when people are overly complacent - it's when that complacency is sticky. As long as the skepticism can refresh itself, I think that the markets are still quite viable.

  John Manley

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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