Sitting Around Quotes - Page 2

• If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

  Angelina Jolie

  Business, Believe, People

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• There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.

  Milla Jovovich

  Girl, Art, Watching Tv

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• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

  Damian Lewis

  Play, Two, Roles

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• Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Tolerance, Trying, Prejudice

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• I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

  Rick Perry

  Coffee, Men, Talking

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• I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.

  Hugh Laurie

  Kindness, Thinking, Goal

  "A Brighter Life for Hugh Laurie". Interview with Amy Jory, www.standard.co.uk. June 13, 2002.

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• I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

  Felicia Day

  Coffee, People, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You may be sitting around waiting for God to change your circumstances. Then you’re going to be happy, then your’re going to have a good attitude, then you’re going to give God praise. But God is waiting on you to get up on the inside. When you do your part, He’ll begin to change things and work supernaturally in your life.

  Joel Osteen

  Attitude, Giving, Waiting

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  Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

  Amy Winehouse

  Thinking, Ifs And, Doe

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• You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Sitting, Cozy

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• Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

  Condoleezza Rice

  Drinking, Thinking, People

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• I want someone who will adore me so much that they cannot even walk past me without touching me in some way. I want someone who will worship me, even when.. I'm sitting around in fluffy slippers with no makeup on and hair scraped back. I'm sick and tired of being on my own. Most of the time I'm fine. Some of the time I even quite enjoy it. But at this precise moment in time I'm fed up with it. I've had enough.

  Jane Green

  Tired, Past, Makeup

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• Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will - through work - bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great "art idea."

  Chuck Close

  Art, Inspiration, Doors

  "Inside the Painter's Studio". Book by Joe Fig, September 2, 2009.

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• If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Thinking, People, Sitting

  "Again, with 20% more existential grief". Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2003.

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• There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or enjoying the dairy or eggs from tortured animals.

  Gary L. Francione

  Summer, Dog, Fighting

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• I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Children, Thinking, House

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• The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs.

  Harlan Mills

  Errors, Sitting, Way

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• Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting around daydreaming about the greatness of His redemption, while neglecting all the things you could be doing for Him? I'm not referring to works which could be regarded as divine and miraculous, but ordinary, simple human things - things which would be evidence to God that you are totally surrendered to Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Simple, Greatness, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.122, Discovery House

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• If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Moving, Responsibility, Waiting

  "‘Be Responsible for Your Own Life,’ Says Oprah". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2012.

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• The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Mistake, Sitting

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• I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books.

  Laini Taylor

  Beautiful, Stars, Book

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• The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.

  Norman Rockwell

  Artist, Age, Sitting

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• I talk to people and show 'em how to solve their problems and stop sitting around and complaining. So I just give people little T-isms, so that when they hear my story they know where I'm coming from and that I'm real.

  Mr. T

  Real, People, Giving

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

  Bob Seger

  Song, Long, Sitting

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• If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

  Gwen Ifill

  Country, Moving, People

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