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• I like acting too much and it's too, I'm just too busy doing that and I'm too hungry for it, to get behind the camera. I mean, unless I could act in it, too. I don't think I've got the right brain. I'm too disorganized.

  Rachel Weisz

  Mean, Thinking, Brain

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• My neighbor, she invited me to an Elvis party. I told her I couldn't come 'cause I'd be too busy making fun of her from behind my blinds.

  Wanda Sykes

  Fun, Party, Causes

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• White people set goals, rappers 'chase paper', and the Chinese are too busy doing both to talk about either one.

  Dov Davidoff

  Rapper, White, Goal

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• How can rogue terrorists in Iraq detonate bombs? They're all too busy flying kites with their children! Hasn't [Katrina vanden Heuvel (Queen of the May at the fun-loving Nation magazine)] seen Fahrenheit 9/11?

  Ann Coulter

  Queens, Children, Fun

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• Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

  Frank A. Clark

  Money, Men, Shopping

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• He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Busy, Doing Good, Be Good

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.32, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.

  Robert Kennedy

  Eye, Blow, Speaks Out

  Remarks before the Joint Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith, Chicago, Illinois, June 21, 1961.

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• Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

  May Sarton

  Letting Go, Nature, Pain

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.31, Open Road Media

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• ...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.

  Henry Miller

  Believe, Miracle, Noses

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• One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Yesterday, Agendas, Today

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• A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

  Timothy Keller

  Smart, Believe, Reflection

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• What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Romantic, Issues

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• The word “busy” is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact, in every silo you uncover, all you’re going to find is a man who didn’t care enough to call. Remember: Men are never too busy to get what they want.

  Greg Behrendt

  Men, Mass Destruction, Care

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Encouragement, Hurt

  Billy Graham (2004). “The Enduring Classics of Billy Graham”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• Every day we're given opportunities, some of us see them and some are too busy to notice.

  Rachael Bermingham

  Motivation, Opportunity, Busy

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• Many Christians suffer because they're too busy seeking carnal knowledge instead of the Word of God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Suffering, Busy

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• It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.

  George Takei

  Hate, Laughing, Being Different

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• It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Beautiful, Women, Busy

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• Everybody does that now. We all take pics... you do the same with holiday photos. You record something to look back on it, even though you’re not really there when you’re taking the picture 'cause you’re too busy recording it; so you retrospectively go to look back on where you weren’t and tell yourself you had a good time.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Holiday, Humor

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Video, November 15, 2004.

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• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, Praying

  R. A. Torrey (2000). “How to Obtain Fullness of Power”, p.58, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.

  Austin Kleon

  Names, People, Misunderstood

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.112, Workman Publishing

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• I shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing the stars.

  Eminem

  Stars, Moon, Gazing

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• An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

  William Faulkner

  Inspiring, Art, Wonder

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wall, Growing Up, Smart

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• Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Character, Yesterday, Effort

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.65, BookBaby

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