Sitting Around Quotes - Page 3

• This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

  Renny Harlin

  Marijuana, Talking, People

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• You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

  Peter Coyote

  Believe, Artist, Talking

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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. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.

  Hayley Mills

  Running, Learning, Errors

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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 think there are bound to be obstacles in any path to success. I mean, I'm Jewish, and there's nothing I can do about that. Instead of sitting around and feeling sorry for myself, I got over it and did something with my life.

  Zach Braff

  Sorry, Mean, Thinking

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• I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

  Eric Stoltz

  Fashion, Dark, Thinking

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• I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

  Danny Strong

  Moving, Sitting, Found

  "Screenwriter Danny Strong Talks HBO’s GAME CHANGE, Adapting Dan Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL, and Lee Daniels’ THE BUTLER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 6, 2012.

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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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• To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood.

  Gore Vidal

  Unique, Men, Two

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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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• 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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• 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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• Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Self, Personality

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• I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.

  Jimmy Connors

  Winning, Past, Thinking

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• War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

  Art Buchwald

  War, Fighting, Men

  Art Buchwald (1993). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Putnam Pub Group

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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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• I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Thinking, Bees

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• I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around.

  Nikki Reed

  Play, Sitting, Painting

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• I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.

  Kylie Bax

  Sports, Naked, Sitting

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• I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?

  Norbert Leo Butz

  Hate, Mean, Talking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Atheist, Stars, Dad

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• Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.

  George Brett

  Baseball, Numbers, Talking

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• The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Acting, Sitting, Pay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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