Boring Quotes - Page 23

• Yeah, I've mellowed, but not in the sense of liking Radiohead or Coldplay . I don't hate them, I don't wish they had accidents. I think their fans are boring and ugly and don't look like they're having a good time.

  Liam Gallagher

  Hate, Thinking, Wish

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• My modus operandi hasn't really changed that much from when I was an English teacher. I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Jobs, Reading

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• Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap

  Morton Feldman

  Piano, Typical, Might

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• Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Silence, Noise, Stranger

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• I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

  Barry White

  Writing, Fool, Scales

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• I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Thinking, Sin

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• Everybody else goes out and plays a show as if it's their album, which is boring. I'd rather sit at home and listen to the album, because I hate to be in a smoke-filled, loud room - that's not enjoyable for me at all...I always look up to guys who can sit and do dinner music...they're singing in tune and playing somebody else's music, and I don't think I could do that...it's the shittiest job in the world.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Jobs, Hate, Home

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• Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?

  Douglas Coupland

  Choices, Stories, Our Lives

  "Generation A". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2009.

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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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• Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

  Mario Puzo

  War, Suicidal, Gambling

  Mario Puzo (1977). “Inside Las Vegas”

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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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• Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways.

  Marilyn

  Thinking, Imperfection, Genius

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• Not every heiress is famous. Or fun. There are a lot of boring heiresses out there.

  Paris Hilton

  Fun, Heiress

  Paris Hilton (2012). “Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-In-Chic Peek Behind the Pose”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Unforgivable Sin, Sin, Unforgivable

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• I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Fun, Feel Better, People

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

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• I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?

  Tony Goldwyn

  Character, Interesting, Want

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• You can learn so much from bad things. I feel boring. I feel like, Why is everything so easy for me? I can't wait for something crazy to f***ing happen to me. Just life. I want someone to f*** me over! Do you know what I mean?

  Kristen Stewart

  Crazy, Mean, Waiting

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• Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you.

  Shannen Doherty

  Labels, Way, Perceive

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• I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.

  Gemma Arterton

  Makeup, Hair, Looks

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• I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If Id wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasnt worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.

  Jason Patric

  Kind, Speed, Wanted

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• I dont want to just play gay characters, ... I think it would get boring to play the same thing again and again and again.

  Rupert Everett

  Character, Gay, Thinking

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• I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.

  Jared Harris

  School, Waiting, Awful

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• You know, it doesn’t matter how beautiful you are, if you don’t have anything interesting to say, then you’re still boring.

  Shirley Manson

  Beautiful, Interesting, Matter

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