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• The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

  Barack Obama

  Fundamentals, Global Warming, Problem

  "Coal-state Dems chisel away at Obama climate plan". www.foxnews.com. June 29, 2013.

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• I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap.

  Casper Van Dien

  Health, Naps, Ifs

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• Id rather be nauseous than tired, I think.

  Sam Simon

  Thinking

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• I don't travel so much now, I get tired

  Ruskin Bond

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• All the tired horses in the sun How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done? Hmm.

  Bob Dylan

  Horse, Done, Sun

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• Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Night, Law

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop." I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead." The light died out of her eyes, her breath slowing. She whispered, barely audible, "I don't understand." I answered, "I don't either." A tear slid from her eye and mixed with the blood. Then she died.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Eye, Light

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.358, Penguin

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• Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our medical institutions haven't figured out how this family policy is going to work. Men are tired of the 80- to 100-hour work week as well.

  Vicki Donlan

  Men, Law, Long

  Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.

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• For a long time, early industrializing countries were absorptive. They were endlessly able to absorb new labor inputs to keep expanding. This was both an economics and a worldview. Here in the United States, we have the Statue of Liberty sitting in the harbor in New York, which says in huge letters, We stand for absorptive capital. A poetic version: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses." But what it means is, Come here, we'll absorb you. We absorb these inputs and add them to our growing economy, and we manage this with liberal democracy.

  Joshua Clover

  Country, Mean, Long

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• Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny.

  Al Neuharth

  Inspirational, Sleep, Horny

  Al Neuharth (1992). “Confessions of an S.O.B.”, Signet

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• The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Stories, Care

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941”

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• When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Mean, Topics

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• I'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Winning, Skiing

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• Everyone is sinning, so it's no longer rebellious to sin. You're just a conformist if you're drunk; and naked; driving around in a loud motorcycle; smoking cigarrettes; breaking commandments; getting pregnant out of wedlock. Everyone's done that. That's so tired!

  Mark Driscoll

  Drunk, Smoking, Motorcycle

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• I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.

  Edna Ferber

  Men, Hearing, Wells

  Edna Ferber (2005). “Roast Beef Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney”, p.258, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm tired of being second.... I'm done with it.

  Kevin Durant

  Done, I'm Tired

  "Kevin Durant Is Tired Of Being No. 2 On The New Cover Of Sports Illustrated" by Ashley Burns, uproxx.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

  Sarah Kane

  Years, Mind, Want

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.211, A&C Black

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• I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.

  Reinhold Messner

  Nature, Travel, Agony

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• We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk songs. We also had recordings of nature sounds: thunder, rain, the singing of birds. We switched them on most frequently of all, and we never grew tired of them. It was as if they returned us to Earth.

  Anatoly Berezovoy

  Song, Rain, Bird

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• I didn't start out about weight loss. I was very tired and my energy was low. This is my second go-around in love, so I want to make sure I'll be around to enjoy it.

  Niecy Nash

  Loss, Energy, Weight

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• I pull my eyelashes when I'm tired or thinking - it's a nervous thing.

  Sheridan Smith

  Thinking, Eyelashes, Nervous

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be.

  Kim Campbell

  Politician, Difficulty, Knows

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• People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think of being physically tired. My feet were not hurting. I was tired in a different way. I was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. I was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. I was tired of Jim Crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation.

  Rosa Parks

  Hurt, Children, Giving Up

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• And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

  Herman Cain

  Country, People, Sick

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• I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Color, Roots, Secret

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