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• I would get very bored if I just did one thing.

  Alexa Chung

  One Thing, Ifs

  "Alexa Chung For L'Oréal Professionnel INOA". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. February 22, 2013.

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• The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Boring, Bores, Being Bored

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• Marriage vows in an objectivist church would probably run along the lines of "Do you promise to attempt to dominate and subdue this woman until such time as you grow bored?" "Maybe." "Close enough. And do you promise to applaud this man`s production until such time as you find someone with a bigger ... corporation?" "Whatever." "By the power vested in me by having scammed you guys out of a marriage license fee, I now pronounce you man and appendage. May you be unencumbered by small persons."

  Robert Slade

  Running, Men, Guy

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• Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

  Kate Mara

  Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Goal, Unhappy, Anticipation

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• Aside from performing in 'Peepshow,' I do yoga once a week and I like Pilates. I'm more into toning exercises over aerobics. I like working with a trainer at a private gym, but I also like going with friends because you don't get bored or distracted.

  Holly Madison

  Yoga, Exercise, Pilates

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• Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Dirty, School, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Jobs, Book, Character

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• I get bored really easily. I get bored with people really easily. I get bored with routine easily. I don’t like things that are average, or normal. I care if I have the best – in the world about that - just wanting that great light that everybody looks at and goes ‘Ahhh’. I feel like that’s what I’ve found in my partner.

  Susan Downey

  Light, Average, People

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• The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

  Criss Jami

  Lonely, Solitude, Duration

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.

  Stephen Daldry

  Hate, People, Trying

  "He'll turn his hand to anything". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.

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• This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

  Rick Warren

  Ideas, Important, Three

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.27, Zondervan

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• It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to have something to do and something to keep you busy, and you'd be unhappy if you didn't. Wouldn't it be ridiculous after being so busy here if you wound up in Heaven with nothing to do but sit on a cloud playing a harp for a thousand years?-Much less all eternity! I think you'd really get bored.

  David Berg

  Thinking, Years, Cities

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• As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

  Stephen Daldry

  Know How, Knows

  "He'll turn his hand to anything". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.

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• In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

  Andre Gide

  People, Awkward, Dull

  Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.60, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

  Stephanie Mills

  Boredom, Needs, Delight

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.122, Island Press

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• When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.

  Henri Matisse

  Freedom, Everyday, Paradise

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• Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story.

  Jack Welch

  Organization, People, Leader

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• We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of novelty. Our muse needs to stay seductive to keep our hands doing the right things.

  Robert Genn

  Hands, Seductive, Mind

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• You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Tired, Mind, Energy

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Boredom, Wheels

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• The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.

  Ann Landers

  Real, People, Giving

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• I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me.

  Walt Disney

  Able, Get Money, Making Money

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• We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.

  John Muir

  God, Civilization, Race

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.167, The Mountaineers Books

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• If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Painting, Week, Ifs

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