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• In my local newspaper, they had this advert: 'please look after your neighbours in the cold weather'. I live next door to this 84-year-old woman, and do you know, not once has she come round to see if I'm all right. The lazy cow hasn't even taken her milk in for a fortnight.

  Jack Dee

  Taken, Doors, Years

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• MBA students come out with: 'My staff is my most important asset.' Bullshit. Staff is usually your biggest cost. We all employ some lazy bastards who needs a kick up the backside, but no one can bring themselves to admit it.

  Michael O'Leary

  Mba, Bullshit, Important

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• Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is cocksure, vague and self-contradictory. The first step towards philosophy consists in becoming aware of these defects, not in order to rest content with a lazy scepticism, but in order to substitute an amended kind of knowledge which shall be tentative, precise and self-consistent.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Real, Self

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “An Outline of Philosophy”, p.2, Routledge

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• Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

  Rob Zombie

  Cold, Hungry, Great Things

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• I'm a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl.

  Jerry Hall

  Girl, Home, Kind

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• There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

  Julian Barnes

  Reader

  "Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

  James Earl Jones

  Pride, Men, Thinking

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• The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to work. This aversion to work is so extreme - and our ingenuity so acute - that we're eager to devote countless hours designing and building devices that might shave a few minutes off our workday

  Charles Petzold

  Design, Aversion, Might

  Charles Petzold (2000). “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, p.299, Microsoft Press

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• I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Fire, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.57, Criss Jami

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• I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.

  Ellen Barkin

  Years, People, Actors

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• I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

  John Ortberg

  Wise, Leaving, Lap

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• Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.

  John Mellencamp

  Honesty, Real, Mean

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• Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us.

  William Kunstler

  Struggle, Evil, Tasks

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• I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.

  Janis Ian

  Thinking, Musician, Reason

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• I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.

  Lena Headey

  Love Is, Way, Extremes

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• As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

  Savannah Guthrie

  Mom, School, Unmotivated

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• Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.

  Jose Marti

  Doors, Law, Dull

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• The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Men, Lazy Man, Play

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• Lazy people always intend to start doing something.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Lazy People, People

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• There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.

  Will Smith

  Dream, Pain, Desire

  "Will Smith Interview: Will Power". Interview with Meg Grant, www.rd.com.

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• Learn all you can, don't be lazy. Nothing's worse than being stupid. Being broke is bad, but being stupid is what's really bad. And what's really really bad is being broke and stupid. Nothing's much worse than that. Unless you're sick. Sick, broke and stupid, that’s about as far as you can fall unless you're ugly. Surely that would be the ultimate; ugly, sick, broke and stupid.

  Jim Rohn

  Stupid, Fall, Sick

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• The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

  George Carlin

  Motivation, People, Unmotivated

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• I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Government, Law

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  Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Busy, Easy, Nothing Is Easy

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• Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.

  Bear Bryant

  Lazy People, Laziness, Loser

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