Lazy Quotes - Page 14

• There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Weed, Song, Love You

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Giving, Mind, Given

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• I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

  Dan Bejar

  Self, Kind, Messed Up

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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• When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein, and the Big Bang. I read a lot about black holes. And partly because I'm so lazy I thought you could do all this just by looking at the sky and thinking up universes. It didn't seem like hard work when I was a kid, so I enrolled in this class.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  School, Kids, Hard Work

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Block, Selfish

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• I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.

  Guy Pearce

  Fun, Thinking, Flippant

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• I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

  Karl Pilkington

  Simple, Simple Life, Needs

  "Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais ('An Idiot Abroad')". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. September 20, 2010.

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• I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Party, Mean, Thinking

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• When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.

  Tom Robbins

  Summer, Kind, Shore

  "READING LIST: Beach Books That Don't Suck". www.esquire.com. June 1, 2006.

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• I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

  Andy Roddick

  Home, Thinking, Lakes

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2005.

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• I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

  Seth Rogen

  Work, Reason, Ends

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• There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Writing, Intelligent, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Popularity, Weird Things

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.13, HarperCollins

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• I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd just find other distractions - reading, doing laundry, talking on the phone, etc. But suddenly I was like a laser beam: I was relentlessly focused, sometimes to the detriment of other things.

  Emily Susan Rapp

  Reading, Writing, Phones

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just suggested a flavor to me. I swallowed them whole, like hosts. It was a form of worship.

  Guy Maddin

  Flavor, Worship, Host

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.

  Guy Maddin

  Lying, Age, Sugar

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Don't be lazy. Learn your instrument and the kids should be learning that stuff. We have to get back to the musicianship of the music. It's called music, so at some point somebody has to learn how to play an instrument.

  Warryn Campbell

  Kids, Play, Stuff

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.

  Margaret Cho

  Song, Hate, Thinking

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello’s “Oh Yeah” reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.

  David O. Russell

  Media, Mind, Sound

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...

  Zachary Cole Smith

  People, Dull, Mets

  "Interview: Diiv On Their Sophomore Album, 'Is The Is Are'". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I do sit down to write, I'm pretty lazy at it. And it's such a frustrating thing sometimes - writing - when you don't do it all the time, you get that thing in your head that you have nothing to talk about and you can't write songs.

  Courtney Barnett

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?

  Kevin Keck

  Book, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these wild affairs and postmarital agonistes - but to be honest, I'm someone that doesn't deal well with instability.

  Kate Zambreno

  Wish, Nonfiction, Honest

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

  Paul Ryan

  Believe, Thinking, Government

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