Bother Quotes - Page 18

• That's how oppression works. Thousands of otherwise decent people are persuaded to go along with an unfair system because changing it seems like too much bother. The appropriate response when somebody demands a change in that unfair system is to listen, rather than turn away or yell, as a child might, that it's not your fault. Of course it isn't your fault. I'm sure you're lovely. That doesn't mean you don't have a responsibility to do something about it.

  Laurie Penny

  Children, Mean, Responsibility

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• You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you because you're beautiful. But you want them to be interested in you because you're you. The problem is, aside from all that beauty, you're not very interesting. You're rude, you're hostile, you're sullen, you're withdrawn... oh, I know- you want someone to look past all that at the real person underneath. But the only reason anyone would bother to look past all that is because you're beautful. Ironic, isn't it? In an odd way you're your own problem.

  Jack Nicholson

  Beautiful, Real, Past

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• If someone wants to be a part of your life, they’ll be there. So don’t bother saving a spot for someone who won’t make an effort to stay.

  Michael Cera

  Effort, Saving, Want

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• Most of the time you don't even know they're there. Now, that's the scary thing. It's really strange and invading, but I'm still working it all out. I try to not let it bother me. And if I want to swim naked in my pool, I'm still going to do it. I certainly don't want to feel that I have to change everything in my life that I do to cater to them. I just won't let it happen.

  Heath Ledger

  Scary, Swim, Trying

  National Post, May 2001.

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• I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.

  Carrot Top

  Success, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesnt necessarily bother me.

  Jodelle Ferland

  Thinking

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• What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.

  Carole Bouquet

  Beautiful, People, Way

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• The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel about something today with the way we felt about it yesterday. You shouldn’t even bother doing it. You should just figure out the way you feel today and if it happens to comply with what you thought before, fine. If it contradicts it, whatever. Life goes on.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mistake, Yesterday, Squares

  "Malcolm Gladwell: 'No one thinks of me as a potential terrorist any more'" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2014.

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• Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.

  Laurie Anderson

  Stupid, Technology, Thinking

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• Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there She's got similar features with longer hair And if that's what it takes to get you through Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you

  Melissa Etheridge

  Eye, Hair, Imagination

  Song: Similar, Album: Melissa Etheridge

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• No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

  Helen Rowland

  Girl, Art, Philosophy

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.22, Litres

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• I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Believe, Dark

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.

  Bill Ackman

  Successful, Order, Rejected

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• Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts.

  Taylor Swift

  Lasts, Wonder, Ifs

  Song: Mine, Album: Speak Now, 2010

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• No, it's not healed. It happened in Sochi and it's been going on and off all season. It's been bugging me throughout my entire Grand Prix season. Coming here, my foot was bothering me. I knew when to push my foot and when not to. I know that it was all in my head. I knew if I didn't think about it too much, it wouldn't bother me too much. But it's been getting better. Still not fully healed but it's getting much better than it has been.

  Gabrielle Daleman

  Thinking, Feet, Get Better

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• Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

  Norman MacCaig

  Men, Fishing, Literature

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• The media are a corporate monopoly. They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of the population doesn't even bother voting because it looks meaningless. They're marginalized and properly distracted. At least that's the goal.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Views, Media

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.29, Seven Stories Press

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• This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.

  Holly Johnson

  Mean, Hype, Sound

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• The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Cute, Boys, Murder Victims

  Raymond Chandler (1983). “The Chandler Collection: Pearls are a nuisance ; Smart-aleck kill ; Killer in the rain”

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• It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

  William Thomas Ellis

  Christmas, Heart, Ghetto

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• I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful," they say, "why would I bother taking action at all?"

  Byron Katie

  Peace, People, Action

  "Stop Second Guessing Yourself". Interview, www.eomega.org. March 18, 2015.

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• If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.

  John Templeton

  Meaningful, Adversity, Blessing

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• Whether looked at from outside or inside, bodies dissolve, matter vanishes, spirit remains - once we bother to go into the matter. "Spirit is the living body seen from within, and the body is the outer manifestation of the living spirit." Extend this statement by Carl Jung to all bodies from electrons to galaxies, and you have the ultimate physics

  Douglas Harding

  Body, Matter, Spirit

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• It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's not the American way. It's not the constitutional way.

  Laurence Tribe

  Country, America, Airports

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• One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.

  Robert K. Massie

  Ideas, America, Majority

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

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