Boring Quotes - Page 2

• Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Mistake, Perfection, Faces

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• The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blessing, Boredom, Mind

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• Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

  Dave Barry

  People, Hobbies, Kind

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.104, Ballantine Books

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• I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Patriotic, Thinking, Alaska

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• I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

  Morgan Freeman

  Watches, Watch Me, Knows

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

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• When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

  Paul McCartney

  Jobs, Kids, Ideas

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• Too much good taste can be boring

  Diana Vreeland

  Too Much, Taste, Style Icons

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• This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.

  Martin Lewis

  Skills, Training, Use

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• It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.

  Fisher Stevens

  Littles, Notes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

  Alison Gopnik

  Kids, Advice, Psychology

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• Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

  Asia Argento

  Years, Action, Made

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• The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

  Margaret Atwood

  Oppressed, Nationalism

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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• It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Despair, Amusing, Work Effort

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• Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Interesting, Parent, Language

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• It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

  Ken Jennings

  Winning, Guy

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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, Involved, Boring Things

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

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• It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring.

  Cynthia Payne

  Rollercoaster

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• I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

  Mary Timony

  Rocks, Derivatives, Rock Music

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• I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

  Leo Burnett

  Business, Believe, People

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• I have a fear of being boring.

  Christian Bale

  Fear, Boredom, Acting

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• I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

  Mick Jagger

  School, Wish, Kind

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• I never work out. I think it is boring, so I run.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Running, Thinking, Work Out

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• Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.

  John Berryman

  77 Dream Songs no. 14, l. 1 (1964)

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• One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Boredom, Amusing, Bores

  "My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings".

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• Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

  Simon Raven

  Book, Notes, Scholarship

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