Bothered Quotes - Page 14

• When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.

  Maeve Binchy

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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• The UPA government is non-serious, it has taken the people for granted & it is not bothered about the youth. Their approach shows lack of faith in democracy. Our goal is to win the trust of the people & give dignity to them.

  Narendra Modi

  Taken, Winning, Government

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• Im not bothered about what people say behind my back. I dont need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesnt, theres a lesson to be learnt.

  Rani Mukerji

  Believe, People, Giving

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• If you'd bothered to ask me, Clark, if you'd bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours, I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn't bother to ask me. You decided what you thought you'd like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Horse, Fun, Hate

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• I don't really date. I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college. I've always thought that's what it's supposed to be like, and if it's not, then I don't want to waste my time on it. Even when I was 14, I was like, 'I'm not gonna marry this person. What's the point of doing it?' It's not me being naive. I just know what it's supposed to be like, and I think until I feel that, I cannot be bothered.

  Dakota Fanning

  Thinking, College, Parent

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• I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

  Bill Nighy

  Mind, Presses

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• Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

  Alice Englert

  Stories, Useless, Littles

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• There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.

  Anchee Min

  Book, Orchids, Evil

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• They put on fresh gloves and got back to business. Jazz wiped up the blood splatters in the freezer and tossed the tissues in with Howie’s waste. It bothered him that he was leaving evidence behind without some sort of oxygenated bleach, those blood splatters would still show up under Luminol. Of course, the odds of anyone deciding to spray down the morgue freezer and switch on an ultraviolet light were pretty minimal, so it’s not like it was evidence that anyone would ever find or use. Still: Billy Dent’s First Commandment was “Thou shalt not leave evidence.

  Barry Lyga

  Light, Odds, Blood

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• I've never bothered about my color.

  Tina Turner

  Color, Black

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• One of our first customers asked me how big we want to be. I said I want to be really big. Later, it bothered me that I answered that way. Now I say I just want to be a great company.

  Kevin Plank

  Want, Way, Firsts

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• Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, People

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• The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn't care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Emotional, Thinking, Practice

  Shunryu Suzuki, Mel Weitsman, Michael Wenger (1999). “Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai”, p.30, Univ of California Press

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• It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.

  Ruth Stout

  Jobs, Book, Writing

  Ruth Stout (2011). “Gardening Without Work: For the Aging, the Busy & the Indolent”, p.5, Norton Creek Press

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• I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.

  Ben Hogan

  People, Bother

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• I've never dated anybody. It's good to get experience under your belt but you should never get wild or go crazy. If I can't see myself with this person for life -- I can't be bothered. I can't waste my time. I have some really good men friends but I believe in no sex before marriage. No fornicating. Stuff like that. I really believe in that. I mean, I'm not perfect. It's hard to live by the Bible standards but I'm really comfortable with me.

  Serena Williams

  Sex, Crazy, Believe

  "Selling the sisters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2005.

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• Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered, it'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen.

  Derek Raymond

  Winning, Race, Trying

  Derek Raymond (2011). “He Died with His Eyes Open: Factory 1”, p.35, Profile Books

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• When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.

  Norton Juster

  Home, School, Somewhere Else

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.9, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Longevity has never bothered me at all, I have studied longevity for years.

  Frank Buckles

  Years, Longevity

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• When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.

  William Gibson

  Children, Fiction, Information

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• I'm bothered by the fact that stupid people don't spontaneously combust, which they should.

  Erik Naggum

  Stupid, People, Facts

  Re: A draft business plan for free software LISP vendors (Usenet article), groups.google.com. March 7, 1999.

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• I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Use, Facts, Los Angeles

  The Allure magazine, March 2008.

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• Does anyone really imagine for a moment that my wife gives two stuffs about global warming? She certainly did not appear to be all that bothered on Thursday evening when, during the great carbon-saving switch-off, I ran round the house furiously turning on every light, hair dryer, dishwasher and toaster.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Light, Hair, Two

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• I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn't help but wonder why. Didn't they realise how foolish they looked? Of course, now that I'm one of those people myself, I have decided that such rules don't apply to me.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Looks, Helping

  "Jarvis Cocker: 'Gordon Brown is crushingly dull. I'd advocate a revolution'". Interview with Nick Duerden, www.independent.co.uk. May 8, 2009.

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• I've learned now to talk, act or walk famous. I can still walk around New York, without being molested or bothered. I don't mind autographs - that's part of it. I just do not see the point of being "out there" or behaving outrageously. It will bring nothing but trouble.

  Norah Jones

  New York, Mind, I've Learned

  "My Blueberry Nights - Norah Jones interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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