Bother Quotes - Page 39

• Don't bother asking God for answers about life. Most likely you're asking the wrong questions.

  Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  Asking, Answers, Asking God

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• Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!

  Akshay Kumar

  Wife, Google, Knows

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• If you'd bothered to ask me, Clark, if you'd bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours, I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn't bother to ask me. You decided what you thought you'd like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Horse, Fun, Hate

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• If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

  Ali MacGraw

  Years, Clothes, Actors

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• You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

  Douglas Coupland

  Morning, Mean, Growth

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to each other and even to ourselves. It is precise, disciplined, and enormously compassionate. Most important, once we study NVC we can't ignore the potential for transformation that lies in any difficult relationship - if we only bother to communicate with skill and empathy.

  Bernie Glassman

  Teacher, Children, Lying

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• As you focus your attention on the heart center, you will begin to feel your thoughts slowing down. You'll begin to feel your mind becoming calm and quiet. They won't bother you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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• Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly remade herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.

  Liz Phair

  Girl, Cat, Doors

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• I don't bother writing about Fox News. It is too easy. What I talk about are the liberal intellectuals, the ones who portray themselves and perceive themselves as challenging power, as courageous, as standing up for truth and justice. They are basically the guardians of the faith. They set the limits. They tell us how far we can go. They say, 'Look how courageous I am.' But do not go one millimeter beyond that. At least for the educated sectors, they are the most dangerous in supporting power.

  Noam Chomsky

  Writing, Justice, Challenges

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky, John Junkerman, Takei Masakazu (2015). “Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force”, p.4, Routledge

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• Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.

  Haruki Murakami

  Attitude, Matter, Wanted

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• Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.

  Lady Gaga

  Past, People, Reason

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Swimming, White, Water

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• The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Catholic, Littles, Superstitions

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• Hotel bars are pretty good. No one bothers me there. Restaurants are safe. People are quite respectful when you're eating. But what I never do now is go to a busy bar on the weekend, or after 8 o'clock at night. That's the danger zone. Also being trapped. Never go on the Metro, or a bus.

  Ricky Gervais

  Weekend, Night, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 21, 2004.

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• I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.

  John Waters

  Writing, House, Agents

  "He Really Can't Help Himself : Shockingly Eccentric Writer-director John Waters Offers Yet Another Look at the Gruesome With His New Film, 'serial Mom.' It Stacks Up Nicely Against His Cult Faves 'pink Flamingos' and 'mondo Trasho'". Interview with James Grant, articles.latimes.com. April 10, 1994.

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• I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts that I find interesting. It'd bother me more to be just pigeonholed into doing what people think is ethical or that's boring to me. I don't pick parts with that in mind, I just find interesting stories. If it's interesting to me, then I do it.

  Denzel Washington

  Selfish, Artist, Thinking

  "Denzel Washington Remembers 'Malcom X' And 'The Wizard Of Oz'". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. March 1, 2013.

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• So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

  Paul Theroux

  Men, Istanbul, Sight

  Paul Theroux (1976). “The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia”

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• People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.

  Dennis Rainey

  People, Mosquitoes, Rooms

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• The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with motives than with results.

  Walter E. Williams

  People, Results, Interest

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• If you play football, theres going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Football, Team, Bothering You

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• As a wheelchair user, you cant move about freely. Thats the only thing that bothers me a little. When Im in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Moving, Arrogance, Want

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• I never wanted to be famous or get any sort of recognition for my person or my personality; it has always been for my work. There's something that bothers me intrinsically about social media, but it's just expected of you now. It's almost part of your contract. But that's not what I'm selling. I don't want to sell anything.

  Francois Arnaud

  Personality, Recognition, Social Media

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one. When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.

  Ajahn Chah

  Party, Ideas, People

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• If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Zoos, Zebras, Disappointment

  "Joy in the Merely Real". Summary of the Joy In The Merely Real sequence, wiki.lesswrong.com. October 2009.

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