Boring Quotes - Page 20

• I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.

  Lana Del Rey

  Regret, Writing, Ambition

  "Lana Del Rey has a problem with our interview ... but why?" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2014.

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• A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Would Be, Paradise, Fantasy

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• It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Retirement, Names, Long

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• I feel like a total hippie right now. I'm passionate about all sorts of things - a lot of boring, cuddly Hallmark things, to be honest.

  Dreama Walker

  Hippie, Passionate, Honest

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

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• Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

  Dave Barry

  Golf, Talking, Interesting

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.104, Ballantine Books

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• It was so fascinating to be a part of this, because as the women took on these central roles that had all the good lines, therefore all the good laughs, all the great moments- the men, who had joined us to sit on stage, started squirming rather uncomfortably. And got really bored. Because they weren't used to being the supporting cast. It was fascinating to feel their discomfort, to discuss it with them afterwards when they said, 'It's boring to play the girl role.' And I said, 'Yeah. Yeah, ya think? Welcome to our world.'

  Olivia Wilde

  Girl, Bad Ass, Men

  "Olivia Wilde Just Dropped Some Serious Knowledge On How The Media Can Empower Women" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2014.

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• Men are not as sophisticated as women. They're not as mature as women. They're not as connected with their emotions as women...There's a very Neanderthal quality that still exists in a lot of men... And if you're in the public eye, to me, it's very boring to say what you have to say and be media trained to the extent that you don't ever reveal any truth. There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing.

  Adam Levine

  Eye, Men, Media

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• The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.

  Tom Peters

  Fun, Business, Creativity

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• So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.

  Alan Bennett

  Sarcastic, Fall, Names

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• There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

  Abraham Maslow

  Giving Up, Selfish, Perfect

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• There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!

  Mindy Kaling

  Inspirational, Party, Worry

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• Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Book, Writing, Character

  Stephen Vizinczey “Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)”, stephenvizinczey.com

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• For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which everything is known would be static and dull, as boring as the heaven of some weak-minded theologians. A universe that is unknowable is no fit place for a thinking being. The ideal universe for us is one very much like the universe we inhabit. And I would guess that this is not really much of a coincidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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• Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots.

  Vic Braden

  Pride, Winning, Champion

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• Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen.

  Clay Shirky

  Communication, Technology, Profound

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• My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Mother, Fashion, My Sister

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• Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

  Clay Shirky

  Technology, Interesting, Social

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• I don't want to be with someone boring because I'm always laughing. I to play jokes on people and be sarcastic.

  Ashley Benson

  Sarcastic, Play, Laughing

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• I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.

  Anderson Cooper

  Couple, School, Kids

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• It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.

  Andy Borowitz

  Witty, Technology, People

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Feb 25, 2012

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• I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

  Martial

  Love, Hands, Missing

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• One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.

  Francis Joseph Sheed

  Communication, Way, Language

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• I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back in my best running form. It is good for me to have that goal; it will help me.

  Ludmila Engquist

  Running, Goal, Survival

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• Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

  Melanie Laurent

  Girl, Beach, Morning

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• Be certain that you're not modeling yourself after someone, but just being who you are meant to be. Go ahead, be weird because "normal" is boring!

  Demi Lovato

  Stay Strong, Normal, Just Being

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.57, Macmillan

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