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• You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.

  Donatella Versace

  Would Be, Likes, Versace

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

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• A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

  Ted Dekker

  Silence, Solitude, Empty

  Ted Dekker (2012). “The Paradise Trilogy”, p.514, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

  Prince Harry

  Funny, Children, People

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

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• Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill a huge emotional and psychological void left by the absence of meaningful work. When people cease to find meaning in work, when work is boring, alienating, and dehumanizing, the only option becomes the urge to consume—to buy happiness off the shelf, a phenomenon we now know cannot suffice in the long term.

  Richard Florida

  Meaningful, Emotional, Long

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• From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Stars, Views, Molecules

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• I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring.

  Diana Vreeland

  Age, My Birthday, Remember

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

  Anton Chekhov

  Destiny, People, Unhappy

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• It does not bother me that some say I'm dull and boring because the people that do know me will tell you a different story. It is very difficult to be open with people you don't know. There is nothing I can do about the fact that the real me does not get across and it is probably difficult to know the real me.

  Alan Shearer

  Real, People, Dull

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• I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring.

  Trisha Goddard

  Running, Morning, Hangover

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• The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life.

  Edith Massey

  Sick, World, Boring Life

  "Fictional character: Aunt Ida". "Female Trouble", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day.

  Barbara Sher

  Life, Loss, Perfect

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• You know that scenario where roses are red, leaves are green, I love arguing that. ‘Why should they be?’. I hate rules and formulas. That’s so boring. It’s the opposite of creativity. Rules are ridiculous things that are meant to be broken.

  Philip Treacy

  Hate, Creativity, Opposites

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• That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Idols, People, Television

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• Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.

  Slavoj Žižek

  People, Humanity, Idiot

  "Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2012.

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• There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real stuff like sex and divorce and is there a God and if there isn't then what happens when you die, and how come the history books have so many lies in them.

  LouAnne Johnson

  Sex, Real, Lying

  Louanne Johnson (2009). “Muchacho: A Novel”, p.79, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.

  Lori Gottlieb

  Running, Passion, Mean

  "Marry Him!" by Lori Gottlieb, www.theatlantic.com. March 2008.

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• I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.

  Joe Posnanski

  Baseball, People, Arguing

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• You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

  Bob Black

  Stupid, Television, Chance

  "The Abolition of Work". Essay by Bob Black, www.primitivism.com. 1985.

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• This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.

  Michael Deaver

  Pundits, Media Training, Saying The Same Thing Over And Over

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• The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

  E. V. Lucas

  Life, Art, Loss

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• There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.

  Pal Benko

  Play, Psychology, Trying

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• Being perfect is boring. It's the imperfections that make us perfect.

  Jessie J

  Perfect, Imperfection

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• Have you ever stopped to think what fun this business of living can be? If you haven't, and if you are one of those who insist upon believing that life is humdrum, grim and boring, then I'm afraid this department is not for you. For I don't believe any such thing. I know that we can all free ourselves and live our lives fully, zestfully and joyfully!

  Dorothy Draper

  Fun, Believe, Thinking

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• Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)

  Eddie Irvine

  Fishing, Big Fish, Stories

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• Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Doe, Matter

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