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• In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these arrests. So for example, the Townhouse Gallery - the outreach director gave an interview to Ahram Online, which is a semi-official news agency here. And he sort of dismissed it, played it down. But the publisher from the publishing house - the Merit Publishing House, which was raided - he said this won't scare us; we will continue to dream of a free country, a country with social justice, and this won't silence us.

  Leila Fadel

  Dream, Country, Agency

  "Egypt Expands Crackdown On Freedom Of Expression, Advocates Say". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• As long as Negro leader is making the white man think that our people are satisfied to sit in his house and wait for him to correct these conditions, he is - he is misrepresenting the thinking of the black masses, and he's doing the white man a disservice because he's making the white man be more complacent than he would be if he knew the dangerous situation that is building up right inside his own house.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Dangerous Situations

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• Fat is mainstream, which is why everyone has become complacent. What used to be considered pudgy before isn't even worthy of a comment today.

  Marion Nestle

  Today, Used, Mainstream

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• I think people are complacent about sound, because we're so limited by the textures and timbres we hear in music, but in our everyday life we hear the most incredible things.

  Herbert

  Thinking, People, Everyday

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's just, you can get very complacent if you do the same thing all the time and especially the comedian, it gives me you know different things to react to and respond to, and it stimulates me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Giving, Different, Comedy

  "Ellen DeGeneres Gets Us Pumped for Ellen's Somewhat Special Special". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. June 10, 2010.

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• Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Thinking, Class, America

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, progressive.org. December 27, 2009.

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• My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.

  Lauryn Hill

  Mother, Awards, Achievement

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• As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Development, Should

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• My philosophy, one of the biggest enemies of future success is past success, because you become complacent, you become risk averse, and that's one of the things we try to drive here, and this is fundamental to this philosophy, and that's in this component change, and also in value creation. That we need to drive creative destruction, not just incremental innovations, but innovations that will change the whole nature of the business.

  Charles Koch

  Philosophy, Past, Creative

  "Full interview: Charles Koch". "Corner Office" with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. October 21, 2015.

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• People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way it routes around damage. With any revolution, the establishment catches up and figures out how to screw it up. The answer is to keep technology advancing fast enough so that those who would try to control it can't. It's up to people to defend what they care about. We shouldn't be complacent that this stuff is going to be a force for good.

  Paul Saffo

  Technology, People, Trying

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• It's really awful, the rhetoric that's becoming part of the national discourse, but when it has such an ugly headline - that's what activated a group of people that was otherwise complacent to go, "Hey, I'm going down to the airport, and I'm going to hold hands in solidarity around Muslims in the arrival section of the airport." That's why I've made a choice to be so public about my position.

  Hasan Minhaj

  People, Choices, Holding Hands

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.

  Paul Newman

  People, Guy, Helping

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

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• Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Thinking, Get Better

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• The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

  Jonathan Ive

  Apples, Design, Alternatives

  "Apple Story of the Day: Arise, Sir Jony Ive". www.computerworld.com. May 23, 2012.

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• To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.

  Rashad Evans

  Fighting, Testing Yourself, Becoming

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• Creative people rarely need to be motivated-they have their own inner drive that refuses to be bored. They refuse to be complacent. They live on the edge, which is precisely what is needed to be successful and remain successful.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, Bored, People

  Donald Trump (2004). “Trump: How to get rich ; and; Think like a billionaire”

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• Sarcastic Science, she would like to know,
  In her complacent ministry of fear,
  How we propose to get away from here
  When she has made things so we have to go
  Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show
  Us how by rocket we may hope to steer
  To some star off there, say, a half light-year
  Through temperature of absolute zero?
  Why wait for Science to supply the how
  When any amateur can tell it now?
  The way to go away should be the same
  As fifty million years ago we came-
  If anyone remembers how that was
  I have a theory, but it hardly does.

  Robert Frost

  Sarcastic, Stars, Zero

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• Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.

  Carol Tavris

  Effort, Challenges, Rebel

  Carol Tavris (1984). “Anger, the misunderstood emotion”, Touchstone

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• Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.

  Betty Eadie

  Moving, Waiting, Have Faith

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• I'm always trying to challenge everyone to raise the game on the artistic level. We are supposed to be the best. Make sure we don't get complacent or comfortable, and always trying to push the limit on trying to write great songs. At the end of the day it's why we do what we do.

  Michael W. Smith

  Song, Writing, Games

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I’m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us, us Americans with their eyes. And not all that I see is- is attractive. I see an insular people who are- are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined

  Edmund Morris

  Eye, Thinking, People

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• I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous and you cannot take anything for granted.

  James Wan

  Thinking, Granted, Dangerous

  Source: collider.com

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• Perhaps the greatest reason for missionary work is to give the world it's chance to hear and accept the gospel. The scriptures are replete with commands and promises and calls and rewards for teach the gospel. I use the word command deliberately for it seems to be an insistent directive from which we, singly and collectively, cannot escape...I wonder if we are doing all we can. Are we complacent in our approach to teaching all the world? We have been proselyting now 144 years. Are we prepared to lengthen our stride? To enlarge our vision?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Teaching, Years, Giving

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• Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.

  Anthony Gregory

  Mean, Kissing, Gay

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• What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can't get lost in your own genius, which is a dangerous place for writers. You don't want to ever get complacent. If a book starts going too well, I usually know there's a problem. I need to struggle. I need that self-doubt. I need to think it's not the best thing ever.

  Harlan Coben

  Struggle, Book, Writing

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