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• Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

  John Backus

  Writing, Computer, Program

  IBM employee magazine "Think", 1979.

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• I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it. I love the parts I love so much, but I find a lot of it just appalling. When a right-wing person quotes a passage in order to attack and stigmatize another person--or group of people--I just roll my eyes.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Believe, Eye

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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• In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance by the great central fact of the sunshine; one might pass a lifetime, it seems, between two yawns, lying bronzed and naked in the sand.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Morning, Lying, Sunshine

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• In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless.

  Dawna Markova

  Sleep, Thinking, Feelings

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• It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.

  Edward Albee

  Theater, Irresponsible

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• To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

  James Ellis

  Ambition, Blessing, Men

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• What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.

  Louis Aragon

  Wine, Fire, Ornaments

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• It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.

  Washington Allston

  Evil, Delay, Laziness

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• I come fresh from the street, fast on my feet, kind a lean and lazy; not much meat on my bones, and a whole lot alone, and more than a little bit crazy. The old six string was all I had to keep my belly still, and for each full hour lesson I gave I got a crisp ten dollar bill.

  Harry Chapin

  Crazy, Feet, Meat

  Song: I Wanna Learn a Love Song

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• Deep down I'm a lazy person in a constantly moving body.

  Eva LaRue

  Moving, Body, Laziness

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• I am fat, lazy and kind.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Kind, Fats

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• Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Country, People, Poor

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: rich nations, poor policies, and the threat to the developing world”, Century

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• Maybe it's just me being lazy but I just don't like describing my music or style or anything, I just like letting people interpret it.

  BØRNS

  People, Style, Describing

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• My lazy, unfair assumption is that everything's easier when you're young and stunning. And maybe it is! But I'd like to see for myself.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Assumption, Unfair, Easier

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I had heard that Tom [Cruise] was the same way, that he is incredibly dedicated. I was very excited to meet him and I was, honest to God, weirdly surprised that the guy makes me look lazy. I think he does think I'm a hard worker, but he makes me look like I'm doing nothing. The guy is at the gym before anybody in the morning.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Morning, Hard Work, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• We have met with the dharma. Many of us have met with teachers. We do have some idea of what to do and how to practice. And we should not be lazy.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Teacher, Practice, Ideas

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• When I look back I can think that of course I've been lazy and haven't practiced as much as I could have and have wasted time. Still though, I look back on my life and I think that really, I am very happy that I lived my life the way I have and I would never ever have wished it any other way - especially, the six years with my lama and then the 18 in Lahul.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Thinking, Years, Six

  Source: fpmt.org

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• I haven't been manipulated. I did a documentary in prison years ago because I was so f - ed off with those lazy bastards in their bed for 18 hours a day, five dishes a day on a menu to choose from, playing soccer every day, going to the gym, watching movies.

  Chelsea Handler

  Soccer, Years, Bed

  Source: variety.com

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• I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.

  Ari Marcopoulos

  Seems, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

  Damian Loeb

  Jobs, Artist, Being An Artist

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• Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.

  Evan Sayet

  Hard Work, Evil, Justice

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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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• We're a little lazy about spirituality in this country.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Country, Littles, Spirituality

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• If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Oil, Ideas

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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