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I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything. -- Kat Graham
People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try. -- Kanye West
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. -- Richard Dawkins
Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit. -- Bear Bryant
People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time. -- Mike Ditka
Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life. -- Joe Wright
I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out! -- Lindsay Lohan
I know a lot of actors talk about the importance of wardrobe, and it always seems like it's kind of a cop-out, maybe, because it seems like a minor detail to some people. But I think it's hugely important. -- Anna Faris
The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting. -- The Edge
I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out. -- Zach Gilford
You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to work with your hands. You have to have a dignity of labor. You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a service to the community. So we started the Barefoot College, and we redefined professionalism. -- Bunker Roy
I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism -- Dan Savage
Setting goals that have already been achieved is a cop-out. -- Gerry Lindgren
Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise. -- Jill Johnston
'The system made me do it' is the perfect cop-out for today's managers. -- Pankaj Ghemawat
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think... -- Richard Dawkins
I think it's a cop-out to say I'm a Christian but I don't ever do anything . . . -- Joel Osteen
I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer. -- Mark Leibovich
I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated. -- Rod Serling
I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards. -- Alan Garner
I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out. -- John Waters
I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out. -- Natalie Imbruglia
Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous. -- Barbara Sher
If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing. -- Al Sharpton
Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home. -- Howard G. Hendricks
It would probably be too easy a cop out to say that just Republican males hate me. Though there's a large swath of them, for sure. -- Lena Dunham
I'll wait out here until the two of you are finished. Just call out if you need anything. Like a priest, cop, or lion tamer. (Aimee) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that's a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination. -- Noel Fielding
Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish. -- Monica Dickens
Karma is not a cop-out. The esoteric meaning of karma is that you are who you are, because of what you have done and who you have been. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much. -- Anthony Jeselnik
The problem with being a cop is you spend all your time around criminals. After all, eight hours out of every day of our lives are spent with coworkers. -- Jarod Kintz
I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything. -- Rod Serling
I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that. -- Charlize Theron
It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours. -- Lou Reed
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy. -- Dan Barker

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