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“They've destroyed their environment, by and large. They've eliminated most other species on the planet, which is just an indication of their sloppiness and their deadness and their oblivion - but even more so, they've cut themselves off from happiness.”

Humanity Environment Cutting Planets Buddhism Species Destroyed Oblivion Indication Sloppiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and spending the country into debt on useless wars and pointless pork projects to buy votes. It's responsible for bailing out the banks instead of standing up for the people the banks cheated. It's responsible for plenty.”

People War Country Example Taxes Projects Standing Vote Responsible Dollars Terror Debt Spending Plenty Useless Pointless Cheated War On Terror Pork Tax Dollars Bailing Out Sloppiness

Author:Timothy Hallinan

“From where I sit I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot of money.”

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Author:Robert Zemeckis

“If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, you nail it down. So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".”

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Author:Max Delbruck

“Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.”

Youth Excuse No Excuses Sloppiness

Book:The Perfect Husband: An FBI Profiler Novel

Source: The Perfect Husband: An FBI Profiler Novel

“The key, I would say to any fledgling humorist starting out, is to make sure that sloppiness is part of your recipe. That way they come to expect fumbling and clumsiness and they say, "Oh, it must be a charming part of his personality."”

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Author:Nick Offerman

“The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.”

People Wells Kind Made Facts Hands Interest Virtue Band Tools Evolve Sloppiness

Author:Brian Eno

“To be honest, I've never looked really hard for musicians. I'll just randomly meet people. I've never interviewed bandmates or anything like that. The reason I like playing with Chad and Devin is that they're just really, really good musicians and good players. There's not a lot of sloppiness going on.”

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Author:Mary Timony

“I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.”

Way Past Challenges Teacher Insight Laziness Questioning Sloppiness

Author:David O. Russell

“I was the sensitive, shy kid that was teased a lot. I was very definitely bullied. I mean, from an early age, I dressed more like an adult, you know, jackets and very slim trousers and a raincoat. And I - even when I was 7, 8, 9-years-old, carried an attache case to school because I just hated the sloppiness of a book bag.”

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Author:Tom Ford

“Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.”

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Author:Jimmy Buffett

“Solitude was no reason for sloppiness”

Reason Solitude No Reason Sloppiness

Author:Armistead Maupin

“Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.”

Knows Care Ignorance Speech Empathy Don't Care I Don't Care Thought Provoking Apathy Cynicism Sloppiness

Book:On language

Source: On language

“Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.”

Speed Aviation Combat Cushions Sloppiness

Author:William P. Driscoll

“Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.”

Ifs Long Girl Interest Fashion Hair Mark Psychological Britain Shops Sixty Pills Long Hair Androgynous Sloppiness

Author:Andrew Marr

“There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding is what we call [heretical naturalness] ... a kind of "let-alone policy" or sloppiness... For a plant or stone to be natural is no problem. But for us there is some problem, indeed a big problem. To be natural is something we must work on.”

People Believe Kind Ideas Problem Bigs Understanding Natural Policy Quiet Stones Plant Misunderstanding No Problem Big Problems Sloppiness

Author:Laozi

“I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.”

Fighting Style Police Sloppiness

Author:Karl Lagerfeld