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Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

~Amber Heard

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As a professional, I cannot afford to be complacent.

~Amitabh Bachchan

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We can never afford to be complacent; there is no such thing as security when it comes to human rights.

~Andrew Solomon

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People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.

~Anita Brookner

Topics: Always Am Complacent Depressing English Me Never People People Say Say Seems Serious Sometimes Which I Am

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No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Again Another Breath Child Complacent Days Draw Effectively Going Good Good Old Days Learned Level Life Like Live Never Old Old Days Over Rage Seem Tells Whatever You Your

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The publishing scene in India is evolving rapidly, and the key challenge is to keep reinventing oneself so that one does not become formulaic. Sometimes it is safer to deal with the consequences of failure than the fruits of success. Remaining on one's toes is critical, and often one finds that success makes one complacent.

~Ashwin Sanghi

Topics: Become Challenge Complacent Consequences Critical Deal Does Evolving Failure Finds Fruits India Keep Key Makes Often Oneself Publishing Rapidly Reinventing Remaining Safer Scene Sometimes Success Than Toes

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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

~B. H. Liddell Hart

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I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.

~Beau Willimon

Topics: Complacent Desire Feel Freedom Happiness Makes Maybe Myth Put Think Uncomfortable Very Want Way You I Think I Feel

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I'm very hard on myself. I think that drives me because I don't want to let people down or let myself down. That fear of failing drives me from being complacent.

~Becky Sauerbrunn

Topics: Because Being Complacent Down Drives Failing Fear Hard Me Myself People Think Very Want I Think

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I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've arrived at success.' There's no question about it. Once you get to the point where you've arrived at a station called success, you get complacent and lethargic. Those goals you set keep changing. But it's not a ruthless sort of thing.

~Bert Lance

Topics: About Arrive Arrived Boy Changing Complacent Ever Get Goals Keep No Question Old Once Point Question Ruthless Say See Set Sort Station Success Thing Those Where You

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