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• Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.

  Robert Caro

  Book, Thinking, Ties

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• Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't know. It doesn't help that I'm lazy.

  Jim Beaver

  Book, Writing, Stuff

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• Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Book, Reading, Google

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• One of the big challenges I've thought about in making record is that the role of computers has become so inescapable and computers offer so many possibilities for creativity, but they also make you lazy.

  D.A. Wallach

  Creativity, Challenges, Roles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!" I don't really care if my career is over.

  Fiona Apple

  Careers, People, Spurs

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2012.

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• There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion, Men, Lazy Man

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough.
  [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

  Horace

  Change, Horse, Wish

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• The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

  Charles Dickens

  Evil, Would Be, Finals

  Charles Dickens, Michael D. Aeschliman (2012). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.71, Ignatius Press

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• We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew behaves in such a way, a Negro thinks in a different way. The lazy generalities - 'You know how women are ... Isn't that just like a man?' The world cannot be understood from a single point of view.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Men, Thinking, Views

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.

  James Hilton

  Moving, Book, Years

  James Hilton (1941). “Three Famous Novels: Lost Horizon, Good-bye, Mr. Chips [and] Random Harvest”

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• Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.

  Theophrastus

  Men, Sloth, Offensive

  Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe, Theophrastus (1713). “The characters, or, the manners of the present age”, p.41

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• Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Character, Cutting

  Source: www.bu.edu

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• The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite. However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Perfect, Ministry

  Source: www.challies.com

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• I don't like looking at awards everyday because I feel like they can make you lazy. So, I give them to my Mom and let her look at it everyday. They are symbols of the hard work she put into me. Her sacrifices allowed me and my team to win those awards. But I don't look at any awards everyday.

  Tyra Banks

  Mom, Team, Hard Work

  "Model to Mogul and Beyond". Interview with Ty-Ron Mayes, westeastmag.com. October 27, 2012.

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• There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves.

  Shepard Fairey

  People, Arena, Reason

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I only wear heels when it's 100-percent required, and even sometimes not then. I have to talk myself into a bra. I've done an hour of standup where I've been like, "I don't have to wear a bra tonight." If you're going to be on camera, you have to get it together, but other than that, I am pretty lazy as a woman.

  Amy Schumer

  Together, Cameras, Tonight

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.

  Willa Gibbs

  Crazy, Religion, Church

  Willa Gibbs (1957). “All the Golden Doors”, New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts

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• I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.

  Peter Blegvad

  Artist, Too Much, Poet

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.

  Eden Sher

  Hair, Cases, Brat

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

  Charlie McDermott

  Sometimes, Lethargic, I Can

  "What the Cast of The Middle Really Thinks of Modern Family". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. April 11, 2012.

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• Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

  Dagmar Godowsky

  Lying, Hard Work, Lazy People

  Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

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• A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things.

  Rashad Evans

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  Hard Work, School, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

  Javier Bardem

  Thinking, Painter, Wanted

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.

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• People who are lazy may smoke pot and remain lazy. That is aging the person finding a drug to help one create the vegetable style the person wants, as the person cannot live in the real world.

  Steven Machat

  Real, Vegetables, People

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings The Fight For Legal Weed To America’s Heartland". Interview with Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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