A Quote by Dick Cavett

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

Dick Cavett

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Language Leads Legislation Sloppy Thought

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Dick Cavett
American - Entertainer
Born: November 19, 1936

I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy

Karl Lagerfeld

I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

Karl Lagerfeld

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

Ronald Knox

A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.

Fred Picker

A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.

Larry Winget

The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.

Bob Greene

Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts. They carry with them a certain polish that marks them as loving the better qualities of life, a culture that adds luster to the mundane world of which they are apart, a patina that puts a quiet glow on what otherwise might be base metal.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We got the goals early in the game and I thought we just got a little too comfortable with things. They started changing their defense, they started going from a zone defense to a man-to-man and doing different things. We got sloppy, and I give them credit for the way they played. We got sloppy and had some turnovers there. We did have some opportunities, one-on-one with the goalie in the second there, but we need to finish things. They found some momentum in their defense and were able to crawl back in.

John Desko

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

Chuck Palahniuk

I just feel like the country is guilty. I think we should be deeply ashamed for what we've done in Iraq, and we've gotta reconcile that, and we've gotta find some way to make peace with this, and we can't do that until we acknowledge what took place, and ultimately, I think that's the poison that is killing this administration. And I think there's a lot of people in the country who are guilty of allowing themselves to be duped in a very sloppy, sloppy manner.

Aaron McGruder

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".

Max Delbruck

Sometimes when you get eager, you get sloppy. Sometimes when you get sloppy, you get knocked out.

Brian Ortega

I thought I had to live that partying lifestyle in order to be authentic, but in fact if you keep it up too long, all you're going to be is sloppy or dead.