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• It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what people thought ... It was only boring old men who would ask me. And whenever they went, 'What? No children? Well, you'd better get on with it, old girl,' I'd say 'No! F*** off!'

  Helen Mirren

  Girl, Children, Destiny

  "Helen Mirren confronts the final female taboo" By Sarah Rainey, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 4, 2013.

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• Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is thought we all hate the box for being too dumb, too boring, and we want to escape it. If we do escape, by buying the advertised product, we usually find ourselves inside another dumb box populated by boring people just like us. It is clearly possible to live an extraordinary life inside a dumb box. Question: is it possible to lead an extraordinary life in anything other than a dumb box?

  Lebbeus Woods

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Ideas, Answers

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• Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring

  Seymour Papert

  School, Kids, Games

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• Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.

  Mort Crim

  Weed, Flower, Next Week

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• We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.

  Sherry Turkle

  Motivation, Inspiration, Needs

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• I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit. Look at Van Gogh's paintings: there's as much joy in them as there is pain. Suffering is only a single color, and by itself it's boring.

  Bart Yates

  Art, Pain, Color

  Bart Yates (2004). “Leave Myself Behind”, p.203, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness . . . perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Differences, Perfection, Individuality

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• I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life are not merely mistaken, but evil, and yet, from a purely literary viewpoint, on his own terms, I have to evaluate him as a good writer.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Reading, Evil

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1966). “The Objectivist”

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• Have fun. Especially while you're still young, you gotta keep the spark up. Even when things get boring, just remember to have fun.

  Jessica Sanchez

  Fun, Advice, Sparks

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• Entrepreneurial knowledge has little to do with certified expertise, advanced degrees, or the learning of establishment schools. The fashionably educated and cultivated spurn the kind of fanatically focused learning commanded by the innovators. Wealth all too often comes from doing what other people consider insufferably boring or unendurably hard.

  George Gilder

  School, People, Degrees

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• As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

  Reynolds Price

  Mother, Children, Cities

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• I find weddings really boring. They give speeches, your aunt kisses you on the cheek, and you're at a boring table. But it's different when it's your own.

  Isla Fisher

  Kissing, Aunt, Giving

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

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• Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Romance, World, Mathematics

  "A prime example" by Karen Gold, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2006.

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• Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

  Idries Shah

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.121, Octagon Press Ltd

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• He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day for them up on Olympus.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fate, Agony, Olympus

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.184, Macmillan

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• For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation, that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives.

  Timothy Keller

  Keys, Justice For All, Israel

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.34, Penguin

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• That’s why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Function

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, People, Vagueness

  "Souvenirs sur Degas (Memories of Degas)". Book by Georges Jeanniot, 1933.

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• We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Character, People, Ends

  Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Extinction: A Novel”, p.115, Vintage

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• You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

  Paulo Coelho

  Want, Easy, Want To Be Happy

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• The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living, breathing love story, testament to the brightest passion that ever burned between our races. You can follow the scenes through if you've time enough and are willing to risk getting lost for a few centuries.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kings, Passion, Race

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Sep 12, 2013

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• However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will never even be offered life in the first place?

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Complaining, Dull

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• Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.

  John Green

  Dream, People

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.61, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the little lesson that life sometimes rams home with a stick: you are not the only one watching the world. Other people are people; while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn’t just about you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Eye, Thinking

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.142, Random House

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