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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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• Practice until it becomes boring, then practice until it becomes beautiful.

  Harry Blackstone, Jr.

  Beautiful, Practice, Magic

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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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• Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.

  Park Chan-wook

  Heart, Coward, Violence

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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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• No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.

  A. R. Rahman

  Regret, No Regrets

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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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• B2B does not mean boring marketing.

  Beth Comstock

  Mean, Marketing, Doe

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• I won't date a model, because models are perfect and perfect is boring.

  Niall Horan

  One Direction, Perfect, Models

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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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• I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Home, Vegetables, Want

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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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• What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.

  Mira Nair

  Important, Life Is, Humour

  Interview with Bonnie Greer, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2002.

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• If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

  David Halberstam

  Stories, World, Sin

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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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• If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

  Emma Roberts

  Thinking, People, Mystery

  Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 12, 2007.

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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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• How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

  Diana Vreeland

  Past, Magnificence, Today

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• If you have unity without variety, you have uniformity and that's boring. If you have variety without unity, you have anarchy.

  Skip Heitzig

  Unity, Anarchy, Uniformity

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