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• The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

  David Foster Wallace

  World, Disease, Assumption

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• I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and that is just as bad.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Hurt, Believe, Men

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I was working in the States when Brexit was going on back home in England. I often think that maybe I got a little complacent on the situation since I wasn't physically there. That's when I realized, Wow, anything is possible.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Home, Thinking, Littles

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I know I will never let myself be complacent in life.

  Misty Copeland

  Knows

  Source: littletownshoes.me

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• I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Stale, Extremes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says "don't worry - everything will be just fine" and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  Ramez Naam

  Two, Optimism, Worry

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• I've never been the type of person to stick with the same thing or be complacent or rest on my laurels.

  Chris Jericho

  Sticks, Type, Laurels

  "Chris Jericho on podcasting, life after WWE and Roman Reigns' suspension". Interview with Josh Barnett, ftw.usatoday.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and the way we sort of become complacent.

  Adrian Grenier

  Running, Thinking, Important

  "Adrian Grenier: Producer and Entourage Actor Talks About the Lonely Whale". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

  William T. Vollmann

  Being Yourself, Father, White

  William T. Vollmann (2009). “Riding Toward Everywhere”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• I had some downtime with my career and I got complacent.

  Jake Busey

  Careers, Downtime

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• Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of complacent Americans who allowed the television to raise their children. People were looking for something - I think they just didn't know what. And even though they were once again starting to open their eyes to the world of magic and the arcane that had been with them all the while, they still thought I must be some kind of joke.

  Jim Butcher

  Baby, Children, Eye

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.14, Penguin

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• Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired.

  Amy Richards

  Water, Feminism, Sound

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• I just want to continue to be challenged and to keep getting better and better. I don't ever want to lose that or become complacent or pulling tricks.

  Elaine Cassidy

  Get Better, Want, Tricks

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I am happy I have competition. It keeps me on my toes all the while and stops me from becoming complacent. So, it works to my advantage.

  Ameesha Patel

  Competition, Toes, Becoming

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

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• Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grandstyle." He has lived in Homer till he can recall the roll of that many-sounding sea. He has pored over the lofty and pictorial thought of Plato till he begins to pique himself upon its grandeur. His fancy has been fed on the quaint old-world genius of Herodotus, his judgment on the melancholy wisdom of Tacitus and the complacent cynicism of Gibbon--and of all this he is conscious and proud.

  Richard Holt Hutton

  Plato, Mistake, Cutting

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• The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times.

  Norman Bethune

  Dark, Artist, Way

  1937 Letter from Madrid, 5 May. Quoted in Ted Allen and Sydney Gordon The Scalpel, The S word (1952).

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• If I feel like I've reached this greatness in my career than there's no more room for growth. I don't think I'm ever going to get there. If I ever get complacent, it's time for me to bow out.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Greatness, Thinking, Careers

  "Taraji P. Henson Talks THINK LIKE A MAN, PERSON OF INTEREST, Upcoming NO GOOD DEED, and Her Wish to Play Either Whitney Houston or a Superhero". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 16, 2012.

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• The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.

  Barack Obama

  Pie, Growing, Revolution

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.156, Canongate Books

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• For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

  Laura Prepon

  Roles, Want, Reason

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

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• I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas - that we have therefore arrived at the end of history, and there is nothing left to fight for. That would be unutterably complacent, indeed foolish. There will always be threats to freedom, not only from frontal assaults, but more insidiously by erosion from within.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Fighting, Erosion

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• Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against Christianity? Also Christians, when they become exclusive, self-righteous, and complacent.

  John Ortberg

  Christian, Self, Drawing

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• I think that overall, ultimately the impact of advertisers calling the shots is a more cloying, complacent culture. For example, it was just announced that Unilever is branding environmental content at The Guardian. How radical or pointed can that content be?

  Astra Taylor

  Thinking, Impact, Environmental

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can never pat yourself on the back during the season. Then you get complacent, stop working and let yourself slide.

  Mark Teixeira

  Slides, Seasons

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• I don't think there's any danger of my ever becoming complacent about losing. I always hated to lose, regardless of what it was, even when the family was playing Yahtzee.

  Darin Erstad

  Thinking, Becoming, Losing

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• The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own greatness and ambition.

  Garry Kasparov

  Ambition, Greatness, Growth

  "Garry Kasparov on Russia, chess, and the great gambit of AI". Interview with Alexander Bisley, www.macleans.ca. May 1, 2017.

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