Boring Quotes - Page 36

• Senator John Kerry is in trouble for making a joke about soldiers being uneducated. As a result, Kerry promised to stop making jokes and stick to boring people.

  Conan O'Brien

  People, Soldier, Sticks

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• Kerry was here in Los Angeles. He was courting the Spanish vote by speaking Spanish. And he showed people he could be boring in two languages.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Speaking Spanish, People

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• Senator Kerry recovering very nicely after having shoulder surgery. The doctors said the senator was fully awake, lucid and joking after the surgery was done, but cautioned that that was just the drug. He went back to his boring self soon afterward.

  Jay Leno

  Doctors, Self, Drug

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• Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.

  Mira Grant

  Religious, Figures, Mice

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• Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

  Francine Prose

  Writing, Fiction, Facts

  "Francine Prose on ‘My New American Life’". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.theparisreview.org. May 13, 2011.

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• And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

  Gail Carriger

  Perfect, Perfect Beauty

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• If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.

  Alex Day

  Real, Home, Ideas

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• Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

  Don DeLillo

  Fun, Modern Life, Reason

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• I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring.

  Noel Coward

  Thinking, Moral, Manners

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• Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Dream, Real, Thinking

  "Watch Shonda Rhimes’s Wonderfully Candid Dartmouth Commencement Speech". Shonda Rhimes’s commencement address to the students of Dartmouth, www.vulture.com. June 9, 2014.

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• I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Bored, Complaining, Grew Up

  "The beatnik turned natural birth expert". Interview with Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2009.

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• I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

  Jill Alexander Essbaum

  Dream, Book, Self

  "INTERVIEW: Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of Hausfrau". Interview With Heather Scott Partington, electricliterature.com. March 12, 2015.

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• When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Toxic, Poison

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• I think that being part of privilege and never having to work a day in your life is so boring. I'm so glad of what I've achieved. I'm so glad I've achieved it as well.

  Callum Blue

  Thinking, Privilege, Life Is

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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 don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.

  Isabel Allende

  Spiritual, Hate, Mean

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• Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Simple, Mind Love

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• It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Dangerous, Hardest

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• It's like a jumble of huts in a jungle somewhere. I don't understand how you can live there. It's really, completely dead. Walk along the street, there's nothing moving. I've lived in small Spanish fishing villages which were literally sunny all day long everyday of the week, but they weren't as boring as Los Angeles.

  Truman Capote

  Moving, Fishing, Long

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

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• The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.

  Mason Cooley

  Religion, Sacred, Found

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• A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Boredom, Looks

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

  Ezra Pound

  Topics, Nations, Ireland

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• Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that "usually rather." Safe generalizations are quite boring.

  Joseph Epstein

  Safe, Chiefs, Method

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• What a beautiful future it will be! Don't worry about life being boring. It will never be.

  Yoko Ono

  Beautiful, Worry

  Twitter post from Oct 24, 2015

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• Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination.

  Tim Tharp

  People, Imagination, Boredom

  Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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