Lazy Quotes - Page 15

• I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Actors, Failing, Feels

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Scarlett Johansson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Clever, Hate, Hard Work

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2010.

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• Right now, Vee was the only person I could count on. She could be obnoxious,annoying, and lazy, but she never lied to me.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Annoying, Lied, Obnoxious

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Superficial, Produce

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• Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Lazy People, Play, Differences

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human vision reaches, merely raising his eyelids; or if he is too lazy to look after all, he can hardly help hearing the ceaseless dash and roar of the breakers. The restless ocean may at any moment cast up a whale or a wrecked vessel at your feet. All the reporters in the world, the most rapid stenographers, could not report the news it brings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Whales, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative

  Eliot Wigginton

  Teaching, Occupation, Negative

  Eliot Wigginton (1986). “Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience”, Doubleday

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• I was sort of lazy at school, but I realize I still have something to bring to the subject which is comforting. I feel I am not as stupid as I thought I was.

  Michel Gondry

  Stupid, School, Comforting

  "Director Michel Gondry Talks IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?, His Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Using Hand-Drawn Illustrations, and UBIK Adaptation". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.

  Simon Munnery

  Years, Two, Water

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• You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

  Anne Frank

  Want, Should, Ifs

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• Now: For those of you who are lazy I can offer no hope: death will not bring you an eternal resting place. You may rest, if this is your wish, for a while. Not only must you use your abilities after death, however, but you must face up to yourself for those that you did not use during your previous existence.

  Seth

  Wish, Use, May

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• Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is parliament that is failing to provide good value for money.

  Margaret Hodge

  Thinking, Mps, Would Be

  "MPs look lazy with short parliamentary hours, says Margaret Hodge" by Rajeev Syal, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2013.

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• When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Writing, Shining, World

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• I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

  John Wayne

  Thinking, People, Complaining

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• A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

  Larry Wall

  Pride, Trying, World

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street.

  Talib Kweli

  Wall, Saws, Kind

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with Mother Jones, kalamu.com. August 26, 2013.

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• In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Being Strong, Exercise, Mind

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.263

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• You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form.

  John Hurt

  Thinking, Actors, Periods

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• In fact my favourite thing is the wig because I'm a very lazy actor so every time I put it on, in order to keep it straight, they kept on telling me to tip my head back because otherwise I was eating it all the time.

  Jason Isaacs

  Order, Facts, Wigs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I'm driving I should make more of an effort with my iPod, but I'm too lazy to organise a playlist.

  Mark Webber

  Ipods, Effort, Driving

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• The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

  Edward Norton

  Alternatives, Moments, Elegance

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• I'm not really that hard-working. We've hung out a lot, and you know that I don't work harder than you. Everyone else is just really lazy. People do half a thing, and then they just go out to lunch.

  Josh Smith

  Hard Work, Lazy People, Lunch

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If people are not safe, they will not make themselves vulnerable. If they feel too comfortable, they can become complacent or lose their curiosity. They can become intellectually lazy about what matters most.

  Erica Brown

  What Matters, People, Curiosity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Automatically thinking ‘everything that happens is God’s will’ is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn’t fighting the Father’s will when He raised the dead.

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Father, War

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• I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It’s a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.

  Melina Marchetta

  Watches, Looks, Want

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