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• Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

  Roger Scruton

  Firsts, Sometimes, Intention

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• Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility of style or visual stereotype; it creates new beauty or it doesn't.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Style, Doe

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• Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.

  Frank Smith

  Nonsensical, Frustrating, Activity

  Frank Smith (1986). “Insult to Intelligence: The Bureaucratic Invasion of Our Classrooms”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring town that no one is willing to come to. ( But, ) we can't let tourism be the reason for not taking action. Accountability is not there. As a community we can be different. We don't have to be what our visitors are. We can work at policies that will make us a vibrant healthy resort community.

  Eric Thomas

  Communication, Vegas, Community

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• For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered.

  Mirra Komarovsky

  Dedication, Discipline, Pay

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• If you play the same club every week of every month, it's kind of boring. It's great that you can play one night in Brazil and one night in Japan, one night in Europe, and see the world. It's amazing what you see if you travel around the world.

  Tiesto

  Night, Japan, Europe

  Interview with Paul Caine, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2009.

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• Fact is, perfection is boring.

  Robert Genn

  Boredom, Perfection, Facts

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• Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.

  Stella Adler

  Weather, Actors, Life Is

  Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage

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• It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites -- others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make you mad. some you will wish you never needed to do again. But AHA! You think. I will dance all the dances I can.

  Sark

  Party, Thinking, Emotional

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• Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

  Mark Morris

  Self, Want, Today

  "Portrait of the artist: Mark Morris, choreographer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2009.

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• Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.

  William Henry Willimon

  Faithful, Religion, Scripture

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• If you have a boring, insipid, mouse-like life where you're just afraid to be or do anything, then you don't bring much into your next life. You don't bring much power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Next, Mice

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• Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless, boring repetition.

  Frederick Lenz

  Adventure, Mean, Buddhism

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• Have you ever noticed how bored people are also boring?

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, People, Bored

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• Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.

  Amy Dickinson

  Children, Women, Bored

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• You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Risk, Being Wrong

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• I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when I was first starting to make records. I'm not trying to make boring adult music, but I try to make music more reflective of what matters to me now.

  El-P

  What Matters, Who I Am, Trying

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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• Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."

  Ricky Gervais

  Real, Drama, Taken

  "Ghost Town - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.

  Nick Kroll

  Jobs, People, Boss

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

  Nick Kroll

  Mind, Comic, Microphones

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• To me, video games aren't something as necessary as food or sleep, but they're just as important as delicious food, drinks, afternoon naps, walks, music, and sex (or masturbation). Not having them won't kill you, but without them, your life would be so boring you might as well be dead.

  Hidetaka Suehiro

  Sex, Sleep, Naps

  "Beer, Masturbation, And Twin Peaks: A Conversation With Swery65". Interview with Patrick Klepek, kotaku.com. May 1, 2015.

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• I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was true of the essay, too. If you'd actually tried to be true to the essay, it would have been, perhaps, boring. So taking that narrow little cast of characters and expanding it out, that was what was exciting about the project for me.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Jonathan Franzen sounds off on bird poaching, climate change and 'performing love'". Interview with Lindsay Abrams, www.salon.com. April 27, 2015.

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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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• When you're touring, you're working from the moment you wake up to the moment you got to bed. Sometimes you make up fun drama, because it can get a little boring, but that's all light-hearted fun so that's different.

  Taylor Momsen

  Fun, Drama, Light

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"

  Bear Grylls

  Squirrels, Rocks, Tv Shows

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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