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• I think it's wonderful and important for there to be so much choice for customers. Wouldn't it be such a bore if we all created, liked and wore the same thing?

  Anya Hindmarch

  Thinking, Choices, Important

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• What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Listeners, Speakers

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• The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.

  Sophocles

  Crush, Greek, Gears

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• We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

  Joseph Prince

  Sin, Christ, Forgiven

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• We always get bored with those whom we bore.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Bored

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• All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.

  Steven Spielberg

  Country, Responsibility, Together Again

  "Steven Spielberg and Joseph Gordon-Levitt talk ‘Lincoln’ following trailer premiere". uproxx.com. September 13, 2012.

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• If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?" I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?" To shrug.

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Blood, Effort

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.142, Penguin

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• The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.

  Anne Lamott

  Feelings, Depth, Surprise

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• There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Reading, Bores You

  "The Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing, (Introduction), 1971.

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• The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore...... Pretend to be vastly interested in any subject the prospects shows an interest in.

  David Ogilvy

  Faults, Worst, Interest

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.13, Profile Books

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• Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Imagination, Boring, Imagine

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• People tend to call me names that I can't repeat on basic cable. I will give you a hint. They rhyme with itch, hunt, & bore.

  Chelsea Handler

  Names, People, Giving

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• I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.

  Diana Vreeland

  Beautiful, Cutting, Blow

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• And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his fingertips. No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses.

  John Steinbeck

  Prayer, Men, Past

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.29, Hamilton Books

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• Have you ever been to a picnic? And someone blows up a balloon, and everyone starts tossing it around, and it's always just about to touch the ground, but someone always gets there just in time to tap it back up? That balloon, that's God, the very best in all of us, the kindness, the heavy petting, Funny Girl! ...Evil bores me. It's just one note. It doesn't sing! Oh, of course life sucks! It always will. So why not make the most of it?

  Paul Rudnick

  Girl, Kindness, Blow

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• When you live in Israel, there are restrictions which come from budget definitely. I came to the point where I had shot many fiction, many feature films, but at one point it began to bore me. It was boring because when you're Gordon Willis or when you are a legend of American cinematography, you know that you are gradually building yourself and you can go into bigger budgets and experiment more. In Israel, the budgets are very, very limited.

  Dror Moreh

  Israel, Fiction, Legends

  Source: collider.com

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• What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.

  Laurie Anderson

  Clubs, Want, Crash

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

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• Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• I am not a fan of improvisation, because it bores me. Working off a tight scenario gives you the confidence and ability to - why don't we change this a little bit and bring it back to the script. You always discover things while shooting.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Giving, Fans, Shooting

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Hate, People, I Hate People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.

  Arthur Frommer

  Thinking, Dubai, Cities

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• The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.

  Jerry Bridges

  Forgiveness, Jesus, Mean

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• The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

  Randy Jackson

  Stars, Puppets, Programming

  "Randy Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2011.

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• A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

  Voltaire

  Firsts, Duty, Slander

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• The way to be a bore is to say everything.

  Voltaire

  Boredom, Way

  'Sur la Nature de l'Homme' v.174-5 in 'Sept Discours en vers sur l'homme'

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