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• A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.195, Random House

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• I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

  David Cronenberg

  Forever, Alive, World

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

  Clarence Thomas

  College, Way, Saws

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• That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me

  Omar Epps

  Fans, Kind

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• If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

  William Faulkner

  Hate, Envy, Bird

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

  Chevy Chase

  Filled Out, May, Facts

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• The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, White, Nba

  "Bird: NBA 'a black man's game'". www.espn.com. June 10, 2004.

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• No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.

  Avi Arad

  Real, Book, Reading

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• When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

  Sara Gruen

  Age, Months, Firsts

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• I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers are providing a kind of template or platform for thinking and imagining.

  Lynne Tillman

  Thinking, Kind

  Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

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• I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.

  Miuccia Prada

  Believe, Thinking, Care

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Country, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.17, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.

  Mel Brooks

  Suicide, Feet, Three

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• When the soul by the Holy Spirit comes to know the Mother of God; when in the Holy Spirit the soul becomes kin to the Apostles, the Prophets, and all the Saints and Righteous Ones, then she is irresistibly drawn to that world, and cannot remain, but is bothered, and thirsts, and cannot cease from prayer, and although the body becomes exhausted and wants to lie down on a bed, even while lying in bed the soul longs for the Lord and the Kingdom of the Saints.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Mother

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• A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never wrote about the present. This bothered me until I realized why - that a novelist wants to know how it comes out, that he can't be omnipotent writing a book about the present, particularly this one.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Writing, Past

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.73, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.

  Diane Ackerman

  Animal, Evolution, Plant

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• On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might think. My mates weren't bothered. My dad was in business.. he knew that it happened, too. He loaned me the money to bail me out, and I got a loan from the bank to pay him back.

  Simon Cowell

  Friendship, Dad, Business

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• I hated it so much as a child. I just didn't like it when punk bands went metal, it really bothered me. It was happening left and right in the 1980s. It started I think with D.C. bands - G.I., Soul Side, they went metal. Right at that time, R.E.M. was coming out, these more kinda feminine bands, and I was more drawn to that than to go metal. And you remember MTV, with the bad metal. But even Metallica, it just wasn't my direction.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Children, Thinking, Mtv

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Don't be bothered by perfection. Replace the word 'Perfection' by 'Totality.
  Totality will give you a different dimension.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Giving, Perfection

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• There are a lot of people - and I'm not talking about elected Democrats - there are a lot of your fellow citizens - you don't know them, you don't know where they are - but there's many more of them than you know and realize, and they revel in all of this. They love the chaos. They love the majority being disturbed, bothered, shaken up by it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, People, Majority

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It is like a dream. I didn't sleep for two nights because I was under so much pressure. That elusive medal is probably what has kept me going. I had none of the self-doubts which have bothered me in the past. I was totally positive.

  Michaela Dorfmeister

  Dream, Sleep, Past

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• Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Dream, Reality, Age

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• An overweight guy went to the doctor who advised him to try a keep fit DVD. But the guy said he couldn't be bothered. “Well” suggested the doctor, “try something that leaves you a little short of breath.” So the buy took up smoking.

  Jo Brand

  Doctors, Dvds, Smoking

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• When I'm watching sports I can't be bothered.

  Jeremy Hotz

  Sports, Watching Sports, I Can

  Interview with Rick Chandler, deadspin.com. May 2, 2007.

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• You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does.

  Chidananda Saraswati

  Life, Eye, Sight

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