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• A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria. You pick whatever you want. That sounds good at first, but soon it doesn't matter what you choose to do. Everything is bland and the same.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Moving, Gourmet, Sound

  "Go with the flow". Interview with John Geirland, www.wired.com. September 1, 1996.

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• I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Ensemble, Term

  Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. November 7, 2012.

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• To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.

  Susan Orlean

  San Francisco, Office, Navy

  "Good Fortune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2011.

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• Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.

  Richard P. Bland

  Party, Dust, Names

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• Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.

  Minnie Riperton

  Australia Day, Singing, Blonde

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• Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beer, Alcohol, Doe

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• Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.

  Richard P. Bland

  Funny, Strong, Farewell

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• We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?

  John Frusciante

  Jobs, Fun, Book

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• For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland... I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane.

  Isaac Stern

  New York, Taken, Airplane

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• How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

  Tom Robbins

  Disappointment, Risk, Suffering

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• I mean its a weekly occurrence that somebody will complain that Top Gear was on last night - and you just sit back and wait for the complaints. But if you start to pay attention to everyones concerns, you end up with something bland and boring. So you sort of have to ignore everybody in order to do the show how we want to do it.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Mean, Night, Order

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• some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Sheep, People, Religion

  Marjorie Holmes (1985). “I'Ve Got to Talk to Somebody, God: A Woman's Conversations With God”, Doubleday Books

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• I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

  Anita Roddick

  Bored, People, Bears

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• I could wear makeup today, and one person would say it looks bland, another would say it looks fake, and another might tell me I look really natural. Everyone is convinced their opinion is the truth, and that's what I struggle against.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Struggle, Makeup, Fake

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• American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.

  Molly Haskell

  Sensual, Cartoon, Different

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.21, University of Chicago Press

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• Concocting a good guest list is like seasoning a gourmet sauce. Too many similar ingredients and it's bland. Too much variety in the seasoning and the result may be overpowering.

  Sheila Ostrander

  Sauce, Too Much, Ingredients

  Sheila Ostrander (1968). “Etiquette for today”

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• We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

  Jon Ronson

  Creating, World, Way

  Jon Ronson (2015). “So You've Been Publicly Shamed”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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• The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation. There are few observers who possess a clear and comprehensive view of the revolutions of society, and who are capable of discovering the nice and secret springs of action which impel, in the same uniform direction, the bland and capricious passions of a multitude of individuals.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spring, Nice, Passion

  Edward Gibbon (1828). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.501

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• To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Meaningful, America, Community

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• I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

  Edgar Winter

  Kings, Blue, People

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• in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Taken, Class, White

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.

  Gerald Durrell

  Children, War, Garden

  "Two in the Bush". Book by Gerald Durrell, 1966.

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• O sleep! O sleep!
  Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep,
  Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand
  Over the lids that crave thy visits bland,
  Thou kind, thou comforting one.
  For I have seen his face, as I desired,
  And all my story is done.
  O, I am tired.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sleep, Healing, Tired

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.133

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• [On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.

  Camille Paglia

  Education, University

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