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doing nothing

«I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.»
«It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.»
Author: Bob Geldof | About: Idealism | Keywords: activism, doing nothing, idealism
«Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.»
«It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.»
Author: Gertrude Stein (Writer) | About: Genius | Keywords: doing nothing
«I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.»
Author: Jerry Seinfeld (Actor, Comedian) | About: Comedy | Keywords: cuts, doing nothing
«If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.»
Author: John LeCarre (Writer) | Keywords: doing nothing, dozen
«Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.»
«I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.»
«I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.»
«O, this lifeIs nobler than attending for a check,Richer than doing nothing for a bribe,Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.»

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