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• We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Conceited, Egotism, Bores

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• After visiting several of America's most fashionable playgrounds, I have reached the conclusion that men who work hard enjoy life most. The men at such places can be divided into two classes, first, busy men of affairs ... and, second, rich loafers. I was impressed by the obvious enjoyment corporation heads and other important executives were deriving from their vacation activities.... The idle rich fellows, on the other hand, although indulging in exactly the same activities, palpably were bored.

  B. C. Forbes

  Hard Work, Men, Vacation

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• One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Interaction With Others, Trying, Information

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

  Robert Payne

  Long, Empires

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Attention, Pay Attention, Ifs

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• Two business women can 'make a home' together without either one being over-burdened or over-bored. It is because they both know how and both feel responsible. But it is a rare man who can marry one of them and continue the home-making partnership.

  Crystal Eastman

  Home, Men, Two

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• ... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Heart, Thinking, Artist

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• To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

  Stendhal

  Taste, Sorrowful, Seems

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• The truth was that I'd been spending years running away from myself. I hid myself in drama, silliness, stupidity, banality. So afraid to grow up. So afraid to involve myself in relationships where I might be expected to give the same love I got - instead of sixth-grade shenanigans. I bored myself with all the when I grow up nonsense, but I was worried it would never happen even as I longed for it.

  Megan Crane

  Running, Growing Up, Drama

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• I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.

  Roz Chast

  Kids, Superhero, Littles

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• We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Vanity, Boredom

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• The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Talking, Boredom, Together

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• I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I'd imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.

  Ray Kroc

  Book, Boys, Thinking

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.16, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the girls to spin, weave, quilt, cook, sew, and mind their manners; the boys to wield gun, ax, hammer and saw, to ride, plow, sow and reap, and to be men. Nobody need ever be bored. Amusement did not have to be bought.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Girl, Quilts, War

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• I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.

  Homaro Cantu

  School, Kitchen

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• Marijuana does not lead to harder drugs. People will get bored of the pot and move on down the line to stronger drugs to get the high they need. They either stay with pot or quit.

  Steven Machat

  Moving, Marijuana, People

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings the Fight for Legal Weed to America’s Heartland". Interview with Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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• Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort of thing.

  John Thorn

  Mean, People, Remains

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I have no ear for music. When I attend a concert, I endeavor gamely to follow the sequence and relationship of sounds but cannot keep it up for more than a few minutes. Visual impressions, reflections of hands in lacquered wood, a diligent bald spot over a fiddle, take over, and soon I am bored beyond measure by the motions of the musicians.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Reflection, Hands, Musician

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• Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Lyric Poetry, Bridges

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• I get bored very easily, so I love doing different things, changing, doing a job for a month and then doing another one for six months and then moving into a different group of people. I love being able to stop. That's one of the greatest benefits we have in our profession.

  Jeremy Irons

  Jobs, Moving, Love Is

  "Actor Jeremy Irons". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 7, 2012.

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• I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to write a horror novel. I'd love to write a novel with horror elements, but too much, and it doesn't taste of anything else.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Elements, Too Much

  "Master Shaper". Interview with David Carroll, www.tabula-rasa.info. 1997.

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• [To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Important, Next, Add

  Interview with Scholastic students, www.scholastic.com. 2002.

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• I tell people that I'm not necessarily any good, it's just that there is nobody like me. I just promise you will not be bored.

  Andy Andrews

  People, Promise, Nobody Likes Me

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Modern Day Will Rogers Details His Latest Novel, 'The Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. November 19, 2013.

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• I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up with comics, I grew up with rock 'n' roll. And when I saw a lot of comics, no matter how good they might have been material-wise, I would get a little bored with them after 10 minutes, only because I feel comedians don't really know performance.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Wise, Growing Up, Thinking

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.

  Amy Winehouse

  Song, Writing, Knows

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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