"There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument."
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"I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio."
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"Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect."
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"A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy."
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"I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking."
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"Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables"
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"The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized."
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"If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned."
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"I've been drinking. Now I'm going to drink some more."
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"Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions."
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"If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write"
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"True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear"
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"If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion."
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"Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor."
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"I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop"
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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
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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."
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"We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals"
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"I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easier life from now on. The world's a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts when you're working."
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"I think of myself as a very lazy author."
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