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• If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Laughter, Tears

  Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.270, Open Road Media

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• They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Grief, Boredom, Woe

  1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Island of the Scots', stanza12.

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• The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death was only a good example if it was more than an example, if it was something absolutely necessary to rescue us. And it was. Why did Jesus have to die in order to forgive us? There was a debt to be paid — God himself paid it. There was a penalty to be born — God himself bore it. Forgiveness is always a form of costly suffering.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Order, Lovely

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• Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.

  Anne Robinson

  Cities, Balance, Gone

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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• I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Two, Long, People

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• As any man, I, of course, have certain preferences. Being a Scot by birth, I'm inclined to favor those with a well-scrubbed look and a hint of color in their cheeks-put there by an early walk in the chill air rather than by rouge. The smell of soap on a woman's skin or the hint of shampoo in her hair is perfume enough for me . . . Humor is important. The most beautiful woman in the world is a bore without that.

  David Niven

  Beautiful, Men, Color

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• Hot groups have members who are task-obsessed and full of passion. They share a style which is "intense, sharply focused, and full bore. Members feel engaged in an important, even vital and personally ennobling mission; their task dominates all other considerations; and although such intense teams tend to remain intact only for a relatively short period of time, that time is remembered nostalgically and in considerable detail by its members.

  Jean Lipman-Blumen

  Team, Passion, Style

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• The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

  John Milton

  Country, Boredom, Dull

  John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes (1957). “Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.104, Hackett Publishing

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• Only a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information. But even if information is not marked 'classified' in an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.

  James Comey

  Numbers, Mail, Information

  Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System, www.fbi.gov. July 5, 2016.

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• What I know bores me.

  Garry Winogrand

  Knows

  Source: www.zinzin.com

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• It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

  Garry Winogrand

  Successful, World, Photograph

  Source: www.zinzin.com

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• I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

  Garry Winogrand

  Fun, Life Is Too Short, Photographer

  Source: www.zinzin.com

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• I was aware of it but I think I was aware of it abstractly, theoretically. You know I understood who Edward Snowden was and what he did but I didn't really see the relevance that it bore in my life and doing film changed that tune pretty quick.

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Tunes, Film

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I'm sure Proust was a big bore.

  Truman Capote

  Proust, Bigs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.

  Oliver Stone

  Television, Reason, Shows

  "Interview: Oliver & Sean Stone (Alexander Revisited)". Interview With Jeremy Smith, trouble.city. September 19, 2007.

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• I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Acting, Bugs, Broadway

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I either wrote at the end of the night or sometimes in the morning. Sometimes they were full entries, or others I just wrote notes about things that happened that day or funny thoughts I'd had. If I had a truly eventful day, I'd take the time to write it all down in great detail. I edited a lot of content out once it was all finished - there was way too much, and I didn't want to bore anyone. I like to keep the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] moving at a fast pace.

  Andy Cohen

  Morning, Moving, Book

  "Watch What Happens...When Anderson Cooper interviews Andy Cohen". Interview With Anderson Cooper, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 25, 2016.

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• People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I'd found in an attic, saying, "I am a beautiful princess!" What my parents thought of this, I don't know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.

  Quentin Crisp

  Beautiful, Mother, Real

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Literature bores me, especially great literature

  John Berryman

  Literature, Great Literature

  John Berryman (2014). “77 Dream Songs: Poems”, p.16, Macmillan

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• You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.

  Clint Smith

  Gun, Thinking, Muzzle

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• The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And when I say somebody else, of course I mean Jason Bateman. He's born to play boring characters because he's such a bore. He's one of the most boring human beings.

  Will Arnett

  Fun, Character, Mean

  "Will Arnett Is Ready to Confront His Own Demons". Interview with Andi Teran, www.elle.com. March 10, 2016.

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• I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first character who came to me: I envisaged the misshapen offspring of beautiful, wealthy parents. Then I realised that he bore a striking resemblance to Toulouse-Lautrec. I developed that, made Holman an alcoholic who lives among hookers, an artist tortured by his disability.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

  Saint Augustine

  Our World, Heaven, Saint

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• The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

  John Milton

  Lakes, Keys, Two

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 108

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• It's fun to write about myself, but I feel like I would bore people with that.

  Walter Martin

  Fun, Writing, People

  "Back to School with Walter Martin". Interview with Matt Berninger, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2016.

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