Bother Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Cute, Boys, Murder Victims

  Raymond Chandler (1983). “The Chandler Collection: Pearls are a nuisance ; Smart-aleck kill ; Killer in the rain”

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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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• 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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• 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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• The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with waste the creek that runs through my property. There's certain times of day that the cowboys like to send them turds down the river. Them f**kers piss me off. if you gotta mess up the ecology of the world in order to raise a bunch of cows, well eat somethin else. I'm not a fan of the cowboys.

  Merle Haggard

  Running, Cowboy, Order

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• My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.

  Raf Simons

  Couple, Ideas, Assistants

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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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• Well, PZ Myers, Jen McCreight, Phil Plait, Amanda Marcotte, Greg Laden, Melissa McEwan and others have all already said it, but I figured I should post this for the record: yes, Richard Dawkins believes I should be a good girl and just shut up about being sexually objectified because it doesn’t bother him. Thanks, wealthy old heterosexual white man!

  Rebecca Watson

  Girl, Believe, Men

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• It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

  Avi Rubin

  Voting, Machines, Computer

  "Critics Concerned Electronic Voting Not Secure". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. October 27, 2006.

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• I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Thinking, Rooms, Landscape

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• Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

  Tibor Fischer

  Book, Criticism, Publishing

  "Better than Amis?" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2003.

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• When I get old, I'm going to the old folks' home. I don't want to be one of those guys who's hanging around the house bothering the kids. But not just any old folks' home. I want the whole top floor.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Home, Kids, House

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• We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

  Ben Elton

  Believe, Groups, Looks

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