Bother Quotes

• Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Running, Dream

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• I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.

  John Lennon

  Music, Song, Giving

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• After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Gratitude, Morning

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• I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Real, School, Kids

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

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• The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask

  Ani DiFranco

  Eye, Glasses, Soul

  Song: Willing to Fight, Album: Puddle Dive

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• When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, Robins, Roles

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• The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

  Greta Garbo

  Doors, People, Secret

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• If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

  Gustav Mahler

  Funny, Music, Expression

  Letter to Max Marschalk, March 26, 1896.

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• It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.

  Jack Whittaker

  Kissing, Kiss Me, Because I Can

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• Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

  Alan Cumming

  Over You, Kind, Ifs

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• You have a winner and a loser and that doesn't bother me, I am man enough to accept that.

  Michael Moorer

  Men, Loser, Winner

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• The biggest threat to your creativity is the fear that it's already been done, said, created. (So why bother?)
  Say it, do it, make it anyway - but tell YOUR story along the way.
  The story of how you came to know what you know.
  The story of what you want to know more of.
  The story of why you do what you do.
  The story of how you came to care.
  And that's how you create what's never been created before.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Creativity, Way, Stories

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• If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Death, Jobs

  Essays Bk III, Ch. 12 'Of Physiognomy'

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• When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

  Catherine Ponder

  Blessing, People, Soul

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• If everything you say gets laughed at...then you become afraid of everyone... and are no longer able to speak... even knowing all that does is bother everyone... Your heart.......shuts down... And your words die.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Heart, Knowing, Doe

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• I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Beautiful, Eyelashes, Play

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• Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Truth, Creativity

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.165, Penguin

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• 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.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspiring, Honesty

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

  A. A. Milne

  Writing, Editing, Long

  Winnie-the-Pooh ch. 4 (1926)

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• A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Motivational, Baby

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.41, St. Martin's Press

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• It doesn't bother me that people are stupid. I'm not stupid.

  Ahmed Best

  Stupid, People, Not Stupid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dresses, England, Manners

  You Never Can Tell (1898) act 1

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• Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Bothering You, Mind, World

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