God, I’m such a lazy writer – I can’t even think up new names.
I’m a very lazy person, so I don’t really do things or go out very much, but when I do get out of the house, I do get recognized a lot.
I didn’t want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It’s easy to do. It’s easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it’s been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
For too long, people have had to neutralise or lose their accent out of fear of prejudicial treatment or to fit in. This has then led to a lack of regional accents, which has allowed this lazy stereotyping and prejudicial attitudes to prevail.
I’ve always just adored music. It’s my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can’t do that if you’re a musician.
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I’d never be an astronaut.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
You learn from the bad games and the bad tours. And, when things are going well, you think about that and you make the most of it. You don’t get lazy; you don’t rest on your laurels.
Since the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, Movement Conservatives have tapped into the idea that an activist government redistributed wealth to lazy minorities. But they have also pushed hard on the idea that true Americans are Western individualists.
I’m a very lazy person, so I don’t really do things or go out very much, but when I do get out of the house, I do get recognized a lot.
Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.
The biggest misconception about the homeless is that they got themselves in the mess – let them get themselves out. Many people think they are simply lazy. I urge those to make a friend at a local mission and find out how wrong these assumptions are.
There’s so much advertising on television that I find just lazy, just so lazy. I’m like, ‘Why are they doing that?’
I just feel that if I’m English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side who can help me out when I’m lapsing into lazy or obvious European skepticism.
Having presented a few travel shows, I have become less lazy on holiday; it has encouraged me to go out and explore.
Acting is easier – writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I’m so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.
I listen to my body and if I need to rest then I rest, but at the same time I’m not lazy.
I am a very hardworking mother and my kids keep me fit. Also, being a working mother, you are always on the go. You always have too many things to do, so you don’t have the chance to be lazy and I think that keeps me fit and motivated.
People too often – because it’s an easy, lazy tag – dwell on my style of football.
I feel lazy every day! It’s the worst thing for me to wake up in the morning and get out of bed, and that is where the discipline comes in.
I feel like I’m kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good.
If you get lazy when you’re onstage, it shows.
I think overweight people are lazy and that they are bankrupting the country.
You know, my mum’s never seen me do stand-up. Ever. She’s just too lazy to come.
I consider myself a lazy guy, but I do a bunch of stuff, and I’m so busy that in my downtime, I like to be with my wife, who I’m just madly in love with.
I don’t like to let people down. But I can be lazy and I’m very scared of facing the Bushtucker trials.
Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.
Programmers can be lazy.
Sometimes I get a little lazy, so that’s a problem. When I am travelling and am very busy with work, I don’t get time to work out, so starting up again and getting back into a routine is difficult.
I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people’s songs, way back when, and that’s what I enjoy the most. And I’m a lazy bugger.
Humans are lazy but not stupid.
I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we’re really lazy and we play PlayStation.
I had a bit of a lazy streak to me, I had high opinions of myself without any real grounding reason to, I made a bit of television that did ok, and all of a sudden life was pretty relaxed for me.
I think the most frustrating thing is when people… sometimes people are a bit lazy and they don’t listen to something, and they’ll just say you sound like something else and it’s quite clear that you don’t, I think that’s frustrating.
I’ve never been in charge. I’m just a lazy bastard.
Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.
I’m naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I’m lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
I’m a lazy sod.
When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks – Citibank, Bank of America – but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
I’m a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn’t study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.
I was, without a sliver of a doubt, a no-good, lazy slacker of a child, and after I discovered literature, I was totally and utterly a no-good, lazy slacker of a child who read books. A lot of books, good and bad, but my favourite – the books I read and reread in my teens – were by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
I became an actress because I’m lazy. I wouldn’t apply myself at school.
It’s hokey, but I love sitting in an inner tube and taking it easy on a lazy river ride. I can sit there all day.
It’s hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell ’em they’re irresponsible and lazy. And who’s gonna wanna do that? Because that’s what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.
As for the drag thing, we each do it in different ways and for different reasons. For me, it’s kinda about expressing a side of myself that’s always in there but usually doesn’t come out. Mostly because I’m too lazy to look that good every day.
After moving from Montreal (where French vs.English is the only conflict) to New York (where everyone is obsessed with race) it was impossible to ignore how intellectually lazy and knee-jerk people are when it comes to any mention of ethnicity.
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it.
A lot of actors go crazy if they’re not working, but I guess I’m a little lazy.
When you’ve got a lot of slaves at your command, you tend to get a little bit fat. You tend to get a little bit lazy. You tend to get a little incompetent because there’s not much that you do for yourself anymore.
Fitness is very important to me because it helps give me a routine when I travel. It gives me one hour of ‘me’ time and passes the time when I’m lonely. Living with scoliosis serves as a constant reminder to keep my core and back strong. If I get lazy, I feel it in my back first.
I should have directed more but I am a lazy person and have taken a backseat.
If you wake up whenever you want, and you slept for 10 hours, and you’re lazy getting out of bed, then I believe that affects your whole life in a negative way.
Diana Wynne Jones’ excellent book ‘The Tough Guide to Fantasyland’ is a compendium of the sort of lazy writing that has given fantasy fiction – especially the sub-section that features elves and dwarves and other Tolkienesque elements – a bad name.
The last really expensive trip we took was so uncomfortable. It’s so lazy. I want somebody to give me a great $30 massage as opposed to a bad $265 massage.
I do have a personal trainer who I’ll go to every day – I lose loads of weight, then I get lazy and put it all back on again.
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
I’ve always been in an environment saturated with Democrats, and because we aren’t constantly challenged, we feel little urgency, we struggle to be enthusiastic and we can get lazy.
