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I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.
Michael Caine / Actor
Actors
Doing Nothing
Want
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If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
Ang Lee / Film Director
Choices
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Wish
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In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.
Ben Sherwood / Author
Action
Doing Nothing
Mean
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Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
Damian Mcginty / Actor
Doing Nothing
Get Better
Rest Of Your Life
Staying
Life God Better
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There are some who dream their lives away, but end up doing nothing, and others who do their lives away, and end up never dreaming.
Laurence Overmire / Actor
Dream
Doing Nothing
Ends
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You don't always have to be doing something. The most of something that you can do sometimes is to be in the present doing nothing.
Kim Basinger / Actress
Can Do
Doing Nothing
Sometimes
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Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.
Ignatius Of Loyola / Hermit
Action
Doing Nothing
Heartfelt
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I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing.
Vashti Bunyan / Singer-Songwriter
Doing Nothing
Movement
Sitting
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Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.
Cesare Pavese / Poet
Dream
Work
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Father
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... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.
Hannah Arendt / Philosopher
Doing Nothing
Thinking
Thoughtful
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There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.
Prince Philip / Royal Knight Of The Garter
Doing Nothing
Done
Twenties
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Stop. Breathe. Allow yourself the luxury of doing nothing for a moment, or an hour, or even a day. It is in emptiness that inspiration will appear.
Carole Katchen / Author
Doing Nothing
Inspiration
Luxury
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Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.
Brandon Sanderson / Writer
Attitude
Awful
Doing Nothing
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Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]
Laozi / Philosopher
Doe
Doing Nothing
Spiritual
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Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!
Andy Andrews / Author
Men
Criticism
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I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.
Mary Higgins Clark / Author
Doing Nothing
Envelopes
Pay
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We must act now to make sure fresh water is available to everyone, no matter where they live. The consequences of doing nothing will be even more catastrophic.
Penelope Cruz / Actress
Doing Nothing
Matter
Water
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It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.
Oscar Wilde / Writer
Doing Nothing
Hard Work
Mind
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Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
Aidan Chambers / Author
Bored
Boring
Doing Nothing
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
Alexander Pope / Poet
Men
Doing Nothing
Way
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When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?
John C. Dvorak / Columnist
Doing Nothing
Process
Resources
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The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Doing Nothing
Trying
Want
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I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.
Viswanathan Anand / Chess Player
Astronomy
Doing Nothing
Reading
Wildlife
Affairs
Current
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
Barbra Streisand / Singer-Songwriter
Ambitious
Doing Nothing
Kind
Consequently
Maintained
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The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.
Brian Eno / Musician
Doing Nothing
Feelings
Important
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But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.
Sarah Addison Allen / Author
Doing Nothing
Looks
People
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You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?
Norton Juster / Author
Care
Doing Nothing
Holiday
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The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.
Dallas Willard / Philosopher
Space
Doing Nothing
Grace
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
Hannah Arendt / Philosopher
Best
Crime
Discovery
Doing Nothing
Excuse
Guilt
Magnitude
Nothing
Very
Against
Doing
Possible
Collective
Confessions
Safeguard
Where
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I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.
Suzanne Somers / Actress
Balanced
Doctors
Doing Nothing
Giving
Hormones
Symptoms
Synthetic
Eliminate
Replace
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"The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious."
Thomas Aquinas / Priest
Becoming
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Usury
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The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks are taking money from the state for doing nothing. So it's - it's an essentially corrupt society.
Michael Lewis / Author
Doing Nothing
Greek
Pay
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NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we already know that it will work and we already know exactly how it will work.
Burt Rutan / Aerospace Engineering
Development
Doing Nothing
Research
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production - oriented society and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.
Rebecca Solnit / Writer
Doing Nothing
Done
Thinking
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When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
Philip Pullman / Film Writer
Choices
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Way
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.
David Attenborough / Broadcaster
Doing Nothing
Human Beings
Littles
Size
Species
Survived
Years
Accuse
Beings
Million
Million Years
Unchanged
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Bing Crosby and I weren't the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other. One of our stock lines used to be "There's nothing I wouldn't do for Bing, and there's nothing he wouldn't do for me." And that's the way we go through life - doing nothing for each other!
Bob Hope / Comedian
Doing Nothing
Kissing
Light
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I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.
Ian Mcewan / Novelist
Doing Nothing
Emotion
Waiting
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The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.
Alan Keyes / Activist
Assault Weapons
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