Sitting Around Quotes - Page 8

• Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield... . Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Talking, Athletic

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• The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.

  Taylor Hawkins

  Thinking, Talking, Ideas

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• I love watching all sorts of different types of movies, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily movies I want to be making. I'm not sitting around saying, "Man, I'd really love to direct a western." That's just not something I'm probably going to do. But, I'm just looking to work on things that both feel professionally exciting and personally relevant.

  Josh Radnor

  Mean, Men, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Shopping, Ideas, Sitting

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• People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently.

  Michael Lewis

  Suffering, Sitting, Tables

  "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

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• Being an actor is definitely not about sitting around on set and having a cigarette or something. It's about acting. The more you can audition, then that's the best thing ever because you learn so much and you get your face out there and you grow your confidence.

  Erika Christensen

  Acting, Sitting, Actors

  Interview with Renisha Marie, entertainment.renishamarie.org. August 9, 2015.

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• It doesn't matter if you want to be in the NFL or do something else. If you want something great, you won't get it sitting around.

  Eric Dickerson

  Nfl, Want Something, Sitting

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• People think you have this exciting and romantic life, because you project this exciting, romantic life on screen. But in reality you're just doing the same thing as everyone else - you know, sitting around watching TV with your gut hanging out, playing with your kid, or even sitting on the toilet. You know what's weird? Even I'm not that interested in my personal life any more.

  Ben Affleck

  Kids, Reality, Thinking

  "Ben Affleck: I quit drinking to be good husband". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2008.

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• There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a regular thing and filming as a regular thing. That routine pays off for you. You get a lot of productivity that way, rather than sitting around waiting for inspiration and waiting for the perfect thing to happen. I would be much less productive that way.

  Woody Allen

  Inspiration, Writing, People

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• I knew I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying to do stand-up. I think I actually tried writing jokes just at home, just kind of sitting around. But it seemed like a very real way to step into the world of comedy. I felt I could do it, so why not?

  Seth Rogen

  Real, Home, Writing

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.

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• What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.

  Marc Maron

  Notebook, Writing, Sacrifice

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• If you are sitting there waiting for someone to tell you how wonderful you are, you'll never get anything done. Women need to get over being women. I'm tired of that socialization of women; that we are always supposed to be sitting around pleasing somebody.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Tired, Waiting, Needs

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• But my point is that competitive eating is a real sport, and I considered taking it up. But when I thought about what this would mean sitting around for hours, stuffing my face with unhealthy food I realized it was basically the same thing as journalism.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Real, Mean

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• I bought a house, it's a two bedroom house, but I think it's up to me to decide how many bedrooms there are. This bedroom has an oven in it. This bedroom has a lot of people sitting around watching TV. This bedroom is over in that other guy's house.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• That's something a lot of athletes miss - a lot of them walk away too soon. They don't get everything out of their system. They have a lot of what-ifs when they're sitting around later in life. I don't have that. I got all that out of my system. I pushed it to the brink, I loved it, and when I walked away, I'd had enough.

  Jimmy Connors

  Athlete, Later In Life, Missing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have to create opportunities for myself. But the thing I really have learned is that you gain nothing from sitting around waiting for the phone to ring - you have to do it for yourself.

  Laura Benanti

  Opportunity, Phones, Waiting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have time to meet a lot of other people who are going through similar situations and one of the great delights of our life actually was sitting around in labs waiting for the results of tests and talking to other people who were waiting to find out whether their cancer numbers were going in the right direction or not.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Cancer, Thinking, Numbers

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• Oh Young Frankenstein - that's right, Body Heat, Raiders Of The Lost Ark. I mean, you know, it - they just keep going on and on and on - Mission: Impossible. And, you know, I think that the writers are having so much fun now with them that, you know, half the time, you know, people are just sitting around saying - trying to think of what's a great movie to copy.

  Debra Messing

  Fun, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon's "Imagine." What you end up with is civil war, anarchy.

  Niall Ferguson

  War, Order, People

  "Imperial Denial". Interview with Nonna Gorilovkskaya, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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• A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

  Bill Bruford

  Reading, Rocks, Guy

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• I'm afraid, as true as love is, it is tested by circumstance and sometimes you don't make the best choices. As much as the fans claim [that] all they want is just want people sitting around and having a nice time together, trust me, you would not be watching the show if there wasn't conflict, if there wasn't drama, if there wasn't jeopardy. And it's not just physical jeopardy, it's romantic jeopardy as well.

  Joseph Dougherty

  Nice, Drama, Love Is

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• Life shouldn't be about sitting around staring at frosted glass. Life should be lived and that's all there is to it.

  Oliver Reed

  Glasses, Sitting, Should

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

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• I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.

  Michael Jackson

  Sitting, Guilty, Feels

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• We cannot embrace the New Mind by just sitting around and talking about it. It demands that we alter not just our thinking, but our way of living down to the smallest details.

  Jean Houston

  Thinking, Talking, Mind

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