Boring Things Quotes

• I never read, I just look at pictures.

  Andy Warhol

  Looks, Pop Art

  Andy Warhol (2004). “Andy Warhol men”, Chronicle Books

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  Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

  Henry Rollins

  Lonely, Being Alone, People

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• You can't be wishy-washy. That's the most boring thing in the world, to be a middle-of-the-road wet noodle. That's my greatest fear, to be like, "Oh, whatever." That's just not who I am.

  Chris Black

  Greatest Fear, Who I Am, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

  Bob Balaban

  Creating, Littles, Rooms

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

  David Eagleman

  Numbers, Boring, Infinite

  "The Possibilian" by Burkhard Bilger, www.newyorker.com. April 25, 2011.

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• I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

  Pat Oliphant

  People, Boring, Involved

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.20, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Ideas, Car

  "News: Kim and Kanye Having a Baby; Hillary Clinton Hospitalized" by Hadas Margulies, www.elle.com. December 31, 2012.

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• I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

  Sue Townsend

  Father, Careers, Boring

  1982 The Secret Diary of Adrian MoleAged133 /4,'Monday, May 25th'.

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• Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality.

  Gottfried Helnwein

  Powerful, Reality, Imagination

  Interview with Yuichi Konno, Yaso magazine, Japan, 2003.

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• Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most boring thing in the world. But drawing comics isn't like shooting a movie. You can shoot a movie in a few days and be done with it, but drawing a comic takes years and years... That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

  Daniel Clowes

  Morning, Editing, Years

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."

  Laurie Anderson

  Dream, People, Want

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January 2012.

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• The level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can't do that boring boring boring thing as easily.

  Miranda July

  Levels, Boring, Moments

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• When you're caring with your head, there are the things that we talked about that seems boring in baseball. But when you care about your heart, exactly the boring things - a pitcher looking over to first, a batter stepping out and adjusting his gloves - those are just tiresome to the person who's interested. But to the person who's invested, it just makes everything all the more dramatic.

  Mike Pesca

  Baseball, Heart, Caring

  "This Week In Sports: Mets Enter World Series". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. October 25, 2015.

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• I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

  Jo Brand

  Reading, Thinking, People

  "Lunch with Mariella: Jo Brand". Interview with Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2010.

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• We hurry through the so-called boring things in order to attend to that which we deem more important, interesting. Perhaps the final freedom will be a recognition that every thing in every moment is 'essential' and that nothing at all is 'important.'

  Helen M. Luke

  Order, Interesting, Important

  Helen M. Luke (2011). “The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine”, p.107, Image

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• I'm a young woman who lives in a world of social media; I'll post boring things too!

  Emily Ratajkowski

  Media, World, Boring

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I just try to eat things in moderation and find exercise that I enjoy, because I'm not a gym person. I cannot go to the gym and run on the treadmill and do weights for two hours. It's the most boring thing in the world for me, so I found martial arts.

  Daniella Alonso

  Running, Art, Exercise

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• ...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Smart, Knitting, Numbers

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2010). “Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again”, p.8, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things.

  John Medina

  Brain, Attention, Pay

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.68, Pear Press

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• Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it's a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Thinking, Earth, Waste

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• Your fear is the most boring thing about you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Overcoming, Overcoming Fear, Boring

  "Elizabeth Gilbert: Your Fear Is The Most Boring Thing About You", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2014.

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• I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Life, Boring, Too Short

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• Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

  Steve Lacy

  Play, Interesting, Risk

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• A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

  George Lucas

  Mean, Special, Tools

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Dramatic, Boring, Happens

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