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"Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?"
"Are you lazy or just incompetent?"
"I think most performers are just lazy."
"The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep."
"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."
"People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better."
"In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy."
"I have a couple of guys to do my laundry. Just because I'm lazy and rich."
"Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the work for you. I guess that's good. But at the same time with material that's not so good, you have to be more inventive, because no thought has been applied to it."
"Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books."
"Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want."
"Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!"
"The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever."
"By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak."
"There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable."
"I'm very lazy, it's just that I love music and I love the things that I get to do. That's why I feel so blessed."
"How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer."
"Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative"
"For the lazy, all work is difficult."