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• The media are a corporate monopoly. They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of the population doesn't even bother voting because it looks meaningless. They're marginalized and properly distracted. At least that's the goal.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Views, Media

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.29, Seven Stories Press

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• This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.

  Holly Johnson

  Mean, Hype, Sound

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• It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

  William Thomas Ellis

  Christmas, Heart, Ghetto

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• I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful," they say, "why would I bother taking action at all?"

  Byron Katie

  Peace, People, Action

  "Stop Second Guessing Yourself". Interview, www.eomega.org. March 18, 2015.

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• If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.

  John Templeton

  Meaningful, Adversity, Blessing

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• Whether looked at from outside or inside, bodies dissolve, matter vanishes, spirit remains - once we bother to go into the matter. "Spirit is the living body seen from within, and the body is the outer manifestation of the living spirit." Extend this statement by Carl Jung to all bodies from electrons to galaxies, and you have the ultimate physics

  Douglas Harding

  Body, Matter, Spirit

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• It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's not the American way. It's not the constitutional way.

  Laurence Tribe

  Country, America, Airports

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• One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.

  Robert K. Massie

  Ideas, America, Majority

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

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• The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered.

  Alexander Grothendieck

  Math, Understanding, Would Be

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• I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future.

  George Wald

  Future, Mean, Science

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• Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's
  all.

  Bobby Fischer

  Mean, Thinking, Phony

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• I hang around under the radar. Nobody is bothering me for interviews.

  Retief Goosen

  Interviews, Radar

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• For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.

  Peter Mandelson

  Taken, Past, Doors

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• That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

  Gregory Maguire

  Art, Real, Thinking

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.86, Harper Collins

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• 1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.

  Edward Witten

  Moon, Nasty, Newton

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• Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence-then why bother existing? to produce human art a computer would have to find, feel, absorb reality to the point it is overcome, to the point it sobs for release. A computer perhaps could replicate every possibility but could never transfer the energy art requires to exist in the first place.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Art, Reality, Expression

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• Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become accomplished.

  Richard Schmid

  Use, Assuming, Talent

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• If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the code of Hammurabi. Presumably it is because Moses is still felt to make some claim on us that this project of discrediting his law is persisted in with such energy. The unscholarly character of the project may derive from the supposed familiarity of the subject.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Character, Law, Energy

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• Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

  Suzanne Collins

  Giving, Stories, World

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• I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

  Charles Bukowski

  Lonely, Loneliness, Suicidal

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• Do not bother yourself with what ifs

  Jocelyn Murray

  What If, Ifs

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• The distortion of the truth bothers me.

  Michael Jackson

  Distortion

  Michael Jackson (2010). “Moonwalk”, p.64, Random House

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• One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

  Carl Sagan

  Media, People, Stupidity

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• Nudity in the flesh doesn't bother me. But having my mind uncovered - that scares the hell out of me.

  Margot Kidder

  Mind, Scare, Flesh

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

  Ben Stein

  Children, Asking, Stranger

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